Domaine de La Grosse Pierre Chiroubles "Aux Craz" red 2023

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Domaine de La Grosse Pierre Chiroubles "Aux Craz" red 2023

Guide RVF des Meilleurs Vins de France 2026  (Sept. 2025): 90/100. Aux Craz shows distinctive vegetal notes, despite its creamy texture.

The Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (K. Wells, March 2025): 91/100. Concentrated by both its unique terroir and the diminished crop due to hail, the entirely destemmed 2023 Chiroubles Aux Craz offers vibrant notes of stewed cherries, dried flowers, and sweet soil. The full-bodied palate showcases sappy concentration, yet it remains lifted and refreshing, thanks to its bright acidity and lining of powdery, lithe tannins. It's well-developed on the mid-palate and tapers out slowly for a refined finish. This is a lovely wine. DRINK DATE 2025-2033.

La Chronique Vin de Jérôme Gagnez (France inter, March 22, 2026): Full of fruit, slightly spicy, pencil lead. Fine ample mouth, tangy, with a nice chew. Very fresh. Very good. Fine and juicy tannins.

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

IDENTIFICATION

Appellation: Chiroubles
Lieu-dit: Aux Craz
Grape variety: 100% Gamay Noir

VINEYARD
Exposure: Southeast
Altitude: 460m
Soil: Decomposed granite rock
Age of the vines: 40 years
Surface: 0.90ha
Planting density: 8500 vines/ha
Certified Organic Farming since 2019 / FR-BIO-01

VINIFICATION
Natural start of alcoholic fermentation thanks to indigenous yeasts
Vinification without SO2
14 days of infusion with a small pump-over per day by gravity
Temperature control Malolactic Fermentation: 100%

AGING
11 months of aging in concrete tank
No racking
Neither fined nor filtered