JEAN BAPTISTE SOUILLARD COTE-ROTIE COTEAUX DE BASSENON 2022

Training at Château Latour and Comte Armand before founding his own label gave Jean-Baptiste Souillard a precise technical baseline — rare for a micro-négociant working since 2014 out of a family farmhouse in Andance. Côteaux de Bassenon sits at the southern edge of Côte-Rôtie's Côte Blonde on east-facing terraced slopes at 280 meters, where vines planted in the 1980s and 2000 grow in degraded granite and sandy gneiss soils over composite gneiss bedrock. Aged 16–20 months in used barrels with 40–100% whole clusters, this Syrah delivers violet, dried rose petal, white pepper, and licorice with soft chalky texture and persistent length.