Domaine La Janasse is in the very top league of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape estates. The estate vineyards cover some 15 different parcels in the best areas of the appellation near Vieux Télégraphe and Beaucastel, and there is a high proportion of very old vines.
The wines all show great class and distinction. Each cuvée is highly individual, from 3 styles of Cotes du Rhone through to special cuvée Chateauneufs. The Cuvée "Chaupin" comes from a sp...
Total 50 hectares, featuring 12ha of Châteauneuf, 6ha of Côtes du Rhône Villages, 15ha Côtes du Rhône and 17ha Vin de Pays.
The cellars are at Couthézon, on the northeastern edge of the Châteauneuf appellation. Vineyard holdings are fragmented, with 15 separate parcels: notably at La Crau, near Beaucastel in the north, and on the Vieux Télegraphe plateau. The lieu-dit Chaupin is planted on north-facing slopes to benefit from a relatively co...
Care starts in the vineyard, where nurturing of old vines and severe green pruning combine to limit yields to little over 20 hl/ha. For the whites, the Roussanne is fermented in barrel for 6 months (mainly new oak), the other grapes in temperature-controlled enamel-lined tanks. Malolactic is blocked to preserve acidity. The Cuvée prestige is 100% barrel-fermented, using 2/3 new oak, with 12 months ageing.
Since 1993, 80 to 90% of the re...
Domaine de la Janasse sold all its grapes to the cooperatives up until 1973. Since then, first Aimé Sabon, and now his son Christophe, have worked tirelessly to build the domaine's reputation as a first-class source of estate-bottled Châteauneuf. They have more than succeeded, because this address is now acknowledged as one of the very best in the whole appellation, regularly bracketed with the likes of Rayas, Beaucastel and Vieux-Télegraphe a...
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