2020 | Fayolle Fils & Fille | Crozes-Hermitage Les Pontaix Blanc

The 2020 Crozes-Hermitage Les Pontaix Blanc offers up a ripe, medium-bodied, wonderfully pure profile revealing impressive peach and quince fruit as well as some spice and toasty background notes.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Cedar shavings and pineapple mark the nose of the 2020 Crozes Hermitage Le Pontaix Blanc. Crisp and structured, this medium-bodied wine—the product of old-vine Marsanne grown on loess and granite near the village of Crozes-Hermitage—is out of the ordinary for the appellation, yet it works, showing ample concentration, focus and length. My estimate of its potential longevity may even prove to be conservative.

• Jeb Dunnuck: A rock-solid white from this team that's based on 100% Marsanne, the 2020 Crozes-Hermitage Les Pontaix Blanc offers up a ripe, medium-bodied, wonderfully pure profile revealing impressive peach and quince fruit as well as some spice and toasty background notes. I love its purity as well as its balance, and it shows the lively, fresher style of the vintage nicely.

Producer Information

Laurent Fayolle is the 6th generation to run this small family estate in the Northern Rhône village of Gervans. In 2002, when his father and uncle split up the family domaine amongst their children, Laurent took control of 7 hectares of prime heirloom parcels (many over 60 years old) in the granite hills located on the backside of the hill of Hermitage. The slopes found in this area around Gervans, Crozes-Hermitage and Larnage are part of the original Crozes-Hermitage classification from 1937 (the southern sections of Les Chassis and Mercurol were added in 1952) due to their close resemblance to the noble hill that looms over them. Once at the helm, his first action was to convert everything to organic farming. Along with his light touch in the cellar (which includes a soft extraction and use of concrete and minimal new wood), he is able to take the incredible raw materials from the complex terroirs he farms (terraced granite and loess slopes, limestone, round river galets) and create wines of supreme elegance and refinement.

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