Saint-Joseph, Domaine Courbis 2024
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Why this wine
Courbis own the southernmost slice of Saint-Joseph, right up against their Cornas holdings, and the wine tastes of it: fleshier and darker than most at this address. Decomposed granite, a green harvest and low yields do the work here, not new oak.
At a glance
- Grape
- Syrah
- Region
- Rhône Valley, France
- Alcohol
- 13.00%
- Body
- Full
- Acidity
- Medium
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Medium (5-10 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Red Meat, Poultry & Pork, Cheese
How it tastes
Refined and aromatic: ripe red fruit and blackcurrant with plum, a lift of violet, black pepper and a smoked-bacon note. Full-flavoured and fleshy on the palate, dry and harmoniously balanced, held together by fine, silky tannins. Syrah 100%.
The producer
Domaine Courbis dates from the 16th century and has passed from father to son since the start of the 20th. It is now run by two brothers, Laurent making the wine and Dominique looking after the 41 hectares of vineyard, which take in eight hectares of Cornas, five of Saint-Joseph Blanc and nineteen of Saint-Joseph Rouge across the communes of Châteaubourg and Cornas. Courbis hold the southernmost parcels of the Saint-Joseph appellation, on very steep terraced slopes facing south and east, where soils of 70% decomposed granite and 30% clay and limestone hold the day's heat and draw out a long, slow ripening; a green harvest keeps the average yield to 37 hectolitres per hectare. The grapes were hand-picked into small boxes, fully destemmed and lightly pressed, fermented in new vats at 30-32°C with a maceration of twelve to fifteen days for maximum colour extraction, then matured for ten months - 20% in one-year-old oak, 60% in third- or fourth-use oak and 20% in stainless steel - with regular racking before bottling.
Food and drinking
Serve at 16-17°C. Good with roast beef, slow-cooked pork belly, grilled sausages and a mature hard cheese. Drink over the next three to five years; give it half an hour in a decanter first. Suitable for vegetarians.