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Jean Baptiste Souillard
Rhone Valley • France
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- Jean Baptiste Souillard
Introduction
When you arrive to visit Jean Baptiste, you pull up in front of his family’s old farmhouse where he currently makes his wines. There is something incredibly genuine about both the town of Andance where he lives and the the wines that he makes--they are honest, speak of a place, but also resemble Jean Baptiste himself. The cellar is functional, but has no frills, with the oldest part of the cellar dating back to 1827.
In The Family
Jean Baptiste has been around wine his whole life. His father was the director of the major wine cooperative of the region and the family always owned their own vines, leaving no doubt in his mind that he would be a vigneron someday. He claims that he only applied himself when studying wine, and spent time working in some of the best properties in France, including Chateau Latour, Comte Armand (under Benjamin Leroux) and Jean-Luc Colombo, as well as stints in new world wineries.
After his studies, he spent five years working in a lab in Cornas as a consulting enologist for some of the best properties in the Northern Rhone although it wasn’t what he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing. His ultimate desire is to express a sense of place. Having spent time in Burgundy, he realized he could do so much more to promote the smaller, less heralded terroirs of the Northern Rhone.
Jean has focused on higher elevation sites that are based on granite, with the model of one site = one wine.
On our visit, we tasted close to 25 different wines, most produced no more than one to two barrels total. While you may think that as an enologist his wines would be overly manipulated, however, his winemaking is extremely minimalist. The reds are whole cluster pressed and fermented in stainless steel, moved to neutral barrels and racked often. The resulting wines have a clear sense of place but are incredibly structured, lean towards the more savory side in their youth and take time to come around.
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