Domaines des Lises - Equinoxe 2020
Domaine des Lises et Equis is located in Pont de l'Isère, in the north of the Rhône valley. The 6-hectare estate is managed by Maxime Graillot (son of Alain Graillot) and Thomas Schmittel . They grow only Syrah, certified organic . They use traditional cultivation methods with a rejection of chemical inputs.
Equinoxe is made from Syrah grown in the Crozes-Hermitage appellation at a place called “Les Chênes Verts”. Half of the harvest is destemmed, the rest being vinified in whole bunches. The grapes are not crushed and the vatting lasts 6 days in concrete vats. The wine is aged for 8 months in frustoconical wooden vats of 40 hectolitres.
Grape variety: 100% Syrah