Sylvain Pataille Marsannay Le Chapitre 2019 Big Bottle An honest southern Rhône red

An honest southern Rhône red for the weeknight table

Fermented roughly three weeks on the skins in qvevri

Sourced from sustainably farmed fruit in the historic Calistoga and Rutherford AVAs

and the project runs on vineyards rather than ego

and a touch of graphite

Sylvain Pataille Marsannay Le Chapitre 2019 Big Bottle An honest southern Rhône redLe Chapitre earned back its name with this vintage: when the Marsannay appellation was drawn in 1987, this historic clos in Chenve was left out and its wine sold as Bourgogne, until INAO reclassified the site to village level beginning with 2019. The vineyard's pedigree is ecclesiastical, once held by the chapter of the collegiate church of Autun, and its soil is a light pink, calcium rich scree of grzes lites over White Oolite on an east facing slope