Sylvain Bock À La Fraîche Skin Contact
$38.00
6 in stock
Vintage: 2020
Region: Ardèche, Rhone Valley, France
Viticulture: Organic
Grape varieties: Syrah
Sylvain Bock À La Fraîche Skin Contact has tropical fruit meeting mineral richness in this genre-bending blend of Sauv Blanc and Chardonnay.
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About Sylvain Bock À La Fraîche Skin Contact
Sylvain Bock À La Fraîche Skin Contact has tropical fruit meeting mineral richness in this genre-bending blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. Exactly the type of juice to quench your thirst while cutting a path through the rugged wilds of the Ardèche.
About Sylvain Bock
Pensive, introspective, yet prone to sudden bursts of enthusiasm, Sylvain Bock the person is much like the wines he makes. His wines project a careful complexity that is belied by their playful labels and Sylvain’s propensity to experiment through co-ferments and delayed releases if certain barrels take detours he does not expect.
Nestled in a rugged corner of the Ardèche in Alba-la-Romaine, Sylvain was one of the last winemakers we visited in the Before Time, and certainly the last we joined for some spontaneous outdoor recreation.
He clearly loves this part of the world he has chosen to call home — which he describes as the North of the South of France — not only for its terroir of limestone and basalt but also for the community he has found there among other winemakers such as Gerald Oustric of Le Mazel (who served as his ‘lightning rod’ for natural winemaking), Jérôme Jouret, Les Deux Terres and Anders Frederik Steen.
His position at the “northern limit of the South” influences virtually every decision he makes: from extracting the delicate flower aromas at the “northern limit” of Carignan (in his Bascule) to choosing Chardonnay (à la fraîche…) as a variety that has proven resilient in the face of climate change, which is turning much of the winemaking world into “the South.”
