Maison les Alexandrins

Côte - Rôtie

Red 2023

This modern, powerful and complex Côte-Rôtie highlights the Syrah with aromas of black fruits and elegant, velvety tannins.

Granite soil

This wine should be decanted at least an hour. Serve at 17°C. Drink young.

This wine will go perfectly with a tender lamb packed with flavour.

2023 was a year full of contrasts, which required great composure and experience to deal with the climatic hazards. The winter was mild followed by a wet spring then a summer oscillating between hailstorms and drought, before a complicated harvest period, between August 17 and September 20. A permanent risk of rain and unpredictable weather forecasts required us to constantly adapt our plans in order to harvest our grapes, of good quality and well concentrated in sugars, at their optimal phenolic maturity. At the end of the harvest, the meticulous work was more than rewarded: this very unusual vintage proved to be very promising, perfectly well balanced across all quality indicators. In the cellar, we are pleasantly surprised by the freshness of the whites. The terroirs resisted drought and offer magnificent balance. Low temperature fermentations helped preserve the aromatics. The reds required long macerations in order to extract all the essence of the vintage. The wines from the lowlands are crisp and delicate, the wines from the hills stand out for their density and the radiance brought by the granite. The aging period has now started, the wines will improve and the textures will slowly become more complex in the cellar.

The granite parent rock is covered in places by schist but also by sand and chalky soil.

Our aim here is to produce consistently refined wines offering elegance and finesse.
- Maceration and fermentation for about 20 days with pumping over for the first few days and then punching down towards the end.
- Ageing for 15 months in one year-old barrels and in demi-muids (60-litre capacity barrels).

Seductive deep-red dress with beautiful undertones. Complex, the nose offers a superb aromatic bouquet, harmoniously blending smoky notes reminiscent of ash with aromas of cherries, mocha, and delicate hints of minerality and graphite. The palate continues with elegance, featuring a beautiful balance, a dense and smooth texture with perfectly integrated silky tannins, and a long aromatic finish with notes of violet and licorice. A particularly refined wine that already provides great pleasure despite its youth.