Hervé Souhaut (Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet) Le Petit Merle Ardéchois

Winemaker: Hervé Souhaut

Appellation: Northern Ardèche, Rhône, France

Grape Varieties: Merlot

Vineyard: Souhaut’s recent small plantation in d’Arlebosc, Vallée du Doux, 0.3ha of young vines (5yrs on average) at 450 meters of altitude with south/south-east exposure on Granite soil. 

Vinification Notes: the grapes are hand-harvested and sorted, then fermented as whole bunches at cool temperature using only indigenous yeasts, with regular punch-downs, but no pumping over. The wine is then aged in old French oak barrels and bottled unfined, unfiltered with 25 ppm of sulfur.