Images of Brézème and Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban
June 19, 2020
Officially these are AOC Côtes-du-Rhône vineyard areas, but use of the names either Brézème or Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban are tolerated on labels. Looking south-east over the gently sloping clay limestone vineyards of Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban on the west bank of the Rhône Looking west along the foot of the limestone hill of Brézème on the east bank of the Rhône …
Images of Saint-Péray
June 5, 2020
Standing in the southern part of the appellation on granite vineyards, looking north-east towards the Rhône Looking east towards the Montagne de Crussol, a long ridge of limestone with the Rhône flowing behind it. An exceptional terroir, increasingly covered in housing rather than vineyards. Sandy granitic soils on flatter vineyards of Saint-Péray Fabrice Gripa of…