Wine Saint-Joseph AOC Lyseras 2008
Tasting Notes
Wine of bright straw color.
Wine with a rounded, heavy taste, with dense fruit tones of earth tones and tangible minerals. Wine rich and vibrant at the same time, gentle and powerful, with a stable flavor.
The wine has an intense aroma with notes of juicy pear, floral honey, roasted nuts and licorice, which added subtle nuances of minerals.
The wine goes well with fish dishes with (eg, salmon steak in honey and sesame seeds).
Interesting Facts
A wonderful wine Saint-Joseph Lyseras made from hand-picked grapes grown in the vineyard area of 5 hectares, which is located in appellasone Saint-Joseph (Saint-Joseph). This appellason located on the right bank of the Rhone and gives white wines from grapes and russan Marsan and red wines from Syrah. In the production of wines of Saint-Joseph Lizeras fermentation takes place with natural yeasts in barriques at a controlled temperature, followed by malolactic fermentation. The wine is aged for 10 months in barriques with regular batonazhem.
Three generations of the family Kyuyerona Yves (Yves Cuilleron) produced wine from both father and mother. They owned vineyards on prironskih terraces constructed by the Romans.
In 1920, the grandfather on the paternal side Yves Claude Kyuyeron established a farm. By 1947 he began to sell his wine in bottles. In 1960, Uncle Yves Antoine Kyuyeron becomes manager of the company. Yves graduated from one of the best schools in France and oenological trained winemakers in the Rhone. In 1987 Yves begins to work in the company and decided to settle in the village Verlё where his mother grew up. In the same year, Yves gets 3.5 ha of land in Condrieu and Saint Joseph's, and in 1989 in Cote Rotie. When Antoine Kyuyeron retired parents Willow going to sell land, but he did not hesitate for a second, took over management of the company.
According to Yves, without rigorous approach can not create good products, he wanted to understand and control everything. To be sure in the creation of unique wines Eve rejected all the ideas and refused to be copied by other manufacturers. From the outset, it tracks all stages of production - from planting grapes to bottling the wine in the bottle.
In 1992 Verlё built a new cellar, the expansion of which is produced in 1999. The main modernization took place in 2007, have been redesigned building for production, endurance and wine storage.
Today Yves Kyuyeron is one of the most exciting wine valley Ron, he actively took up the revival of the former glory of the appellation Kondriё. Thanks to careful selection, rejection of insecticides and hand picking them to create high-quality wines. At harvest time he personally sneaks on terraces, instructing builders to work slowly and carefully. He is committed to continuous improvement of methods of wine production, achieving ever greater complexity and richness of its Kondriё.
