Premices - 2021
Premices - 2021
The second-lightest of the Roche B family, Premices is dazzlingly beautiful, quite unlike anything we’ve tried recently - a short maceration, pressed gently. Here sappy, brambly fruit is lifted with a livewire acidity, fleshed out with a briney salted-liquorice undertone. Quite something.
Style: Still
Producer: La Roche Buissière
Country: France
Region: Côtes du Rhône
Grapes: Grenache, Syrah
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
After deciding that studying city water waste management wasn’t for him, Antoine took over from his dad Pierre in 1998. Shortly joined by his wife Laurence they began making and bottling their own wine. Organic since the 1970’s Pierre had used to sell grapes his grapes to the local co-op. Vineyards are planted with Grenache and Syrah. Very intense vineyard work allows for early harvest, resulting in less-concentrated and lower-alcohol wines. They hand-harvest their 18 hectares of vines, don’t use synthetic yeasts, and don’t fine or filter.