Dard & Ribo Crozes Hermitage Baties 2023

【Dard & Ribo, a pioneer of natural wines in the Northern Rhône River region】

ZTF350 Dard & Ribo Crozes Hermitage Baties 2023

$450/piece

Region/Grade: France / Rhone Valley/ Crozes Hermitage

Grape varieties: 100% Syrah

Alcohol content: 12.5%

Volume: 750ml

Rene-Jean Dard and Francois Ribo met at a wine school in Beaune. Their story begins when Rene-Jean inherited his father's one-hectare vineyard. His father originally intended to make wine for himself and sell a small portion. Fifteen-year-old Dard, after his father's death, had to manage the vineyard while attending school. Later, Francois joined him, forming the Dard & Ribo duo. They gradually acquired more vineyards, expanding to their current 8.5 hectares spread across the Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, and Hermitage districts. The purchase of the Crozes-Hermitage vineyard was due to the following serendipitous encounter.

It is said that two brothers participated in the village's dance and singing evening in 1984 and drank to High High The ground crashed into one of the farmhouses with an old man continued to drink, during the meeting learned that the old man wanted to retire the vineyard for sale, the two young men sobered up the next morning, immediately quickly signed with this old man ... No one knows why this old man is willing to sell this field to two young men who have not started anything, as Rene-Jean said, or this old man saw his land two Possessing some kind of characteristics of being a grape farmer... As a result, he got Crozes-Hermitage's field, Rene-Jean added that the opportunity to buy a field like him when he was young is almost impossible to happen today