Jean Baptiste Souillard Saint Joseph Bergeron 2018

A more muscular wine than the Janoune, black and red fruits with old wood, savory aromatics and an effortlessly long finish.

Jean-Baptiste’s wines are like nothing else we’ve had from the Northern Rhône at least recently. For the whites, Jean-Baptiste’s tendency to pick just before they over-ripen result in incredibly fresh wines. For the syrah, there is none of the primary violets and black fruit, nor any of the bacon. They are so much more than that: between a very whole-cluster-Burgundy faded rose petals and magnificent, hyper-tense, savory note.