Brézème
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An elegant, attractive wine that reveals aromas and flavours of nuts and orchard fruit prior to a clean, dry finish. Benefits from decanting and should not be served too chilled. Ideal as an aperitif or with seafood, fish or poultry.
- Bottle £17.50
- Bottle Case £210.00
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Dark, concentrated, traditional Syrah with lots of spice and tobacco flavours and good dark, plumy fruit. Made very much in the uncompromising style of a classic Northern Rhône, not unlike Crozes Hermitage.
- Bottle £17.50
- Bottle Case £210.00
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Full throttle Syrah with classic dark berry flavours, good plummy fruit and additional complexity compared to its Grand Chêne sibling.
- Bottle £21.50
- Bottle Case £258.00
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Brézème Wine - Buy Wines from the Brézème Region of France
Like the duck-billed platypus, Brézème is an oddity of classification that stubbornly refuses to conform to the official rules. Technically it is the northernmost appellation of the Southern Rhône, as it lies just south of Valence (the nominal frontier of the Northern Rhône) at Livron-sur-Drôme. However, in terms of climate, geology, grape varieties and character the wines are representative of the north which is (hair-splitting aside) where they belong.
Jean-Marie Lombard was something of a pioneer (or more accurately revivalist, as vineyards flourished here prior to the phylloxera pandemic of the late 1800’s) when he decided to cultivate vines and bottle his own wine here in the early 1970’s.
Today there are just a handful of vignerons making Brézème: Côtes du Rhône and Jean-Marie's critically acclaimed wines are to be found on some of France’s grandest restaurant lists.