Le Grand Blanc VdF 2022

Stephan started in 1991 with three hectares in the municipality of Tupin. He was lucky enough to acquire a vineyard with very old vines. He replanted a second vineyard and vinified his first wine in 1994. His wines were very different from those of the other winegrowers on the Côte-Rôtie. His completely unique style had a lot to do with his work in the cellar. In the vineyard, he works entirely by hand, organically and mechanically with mechanical soil care and without the use of any chemicals. In the cellar, the grapes, which are not destemmed, undergo a 24-hour pre-fermentation before they are fermented spontaneously in a macération carbonique at a cool 10° C for around 20 days. Once the wines have matured, only a minimum amount of sulphur is added at bottling. The wines are neither fined nor filtered.