Jean-François Jacouton 'Pierres d'Iserand' Saint-Joseph 2020 BARATUCIAT shale bedrock

shale bedrock

Long maligned for light red wines (sometimes even lightened with white wine varieties

5 hectare parcel of young vines

Gamay and even Syrah

with their fennel- and sea-salt-inflected Cassis setting the standard for Mediterranean whites

Jean-François Jacouton 'Pierres d'Iserand' Saint-Joseph 2020 BARATUCIAT shale bedrock100% Syrah & Granite As a yound boy, Jean Francois worked alongside his grandfather, tending their family parcels in Saint Joseph lieu dit Sainte Epine (just above Raymond Trollats legendary old vine which now go into Gonons Vieilles Vignes bottling) in the village of Saint Jean de Muzols. Jean Francois fully took over his familys vines in 2003, while simultaneously working in Cote Rotie (Rostaing), Hermitage, and Savoir (Pierre Boniface), and then