JEAN BAPTISTE SOUILLARD CORNAS SAINT-PIERRE 2022

JEAN BAPTISTE SOUILLARD CORNAS SAINT-PIERRE 2022After training at Chteau Latour and Comte Armand, Jean Baptiste Souillard launched his micro ngociant label in 2014, working from a family farmhouse in Andance to produce single parcel Northern Rhne Syrah under sustainable viticulture. Saint Pierre draws from early 2000s vines at 400 meters on south facing slopes over deeply weathered, biotite rich granite with schistose fabric a site considered too cold to plant until 2000, ripening two to three

After training at Château Latour and Comte Armand, Jean-Baptiste Souillard launched his micro-négociant label in 2014, working from a family farmhouse in Andance to produce single-parcel Northern Rhône Syrah under sustainable viticulture. Saint-Pierre draws from early-2000s vines at 400 meters on south-facing slopes over deeply weathered, biotite-rich granite with schistose fabric — a site considered too cold to plant until 2000, ripening two to three weeks after other Cornas parcels. Whole-cluster fermentation at 40–100% and 16–20 months in used barrels shape a wine of black olive, smoked meat, dark plum, and crushed stone with bright acidity and structured tannins that reward extended decanting.