A couple of years ago Michele mentioned to me that she had a plan for Syrah to sit with her celebrated ‘Ceps Centennaires’ Grenache – she’s used the oldest vines she has on the estate, up on a limestone plateau at 350m altitude. Farmed bio dynamically, as all grapes at Gramenon are, the had harvest grapes are fermented using ambient yeasts but for  this wines there is a 60 day maceration. She put in 2 bottles of the 2016 with my order last year and they knocked me out, I immediately got in touch to see if I could buy some but she told me it was allocated, “but don’t worry, I made it again in 2017” well here we are again in 2023, this again is a Syrah that can mix it with the Titans and I suspect could live and improve for 20 years in a good cellar. Super super Importer Notes.