Jean-Christophe ROSSI's Page

My name is Jean-Christophe ROSSI, I am a small vintner in a medieval village of south of France (dept of Ardéche). In This zone the appellation is “Côtes du Vivarais SAINT-MONTAN”. The total of my production is less than 20 000 bottles.

The red wines that I produce, made up of type of vine syrah (40%) and type of vine grenache (60%) are, I believe, complexes with at first smell one will find the dominant red fruits hitch move then worms of the blackcurrant notes. The colour is red ruby and brilliance, these wines are also rich in mouth, with end of the tannins characteristic of the RHONE VALLEY Wines. I think that they very favourably accompany a part of lamb.

I respect the environment. We not use artificial fertiliser or weed-killer and we limit our treatments to 3 annual applications of copper and sulphur. We manually harvest the grapes and during fermentation the temperature is severely controlled

According to the year, the wine spends a few months in barrels of oak.

Our exploitation is of small size (6 hectares) and in fact, all the operations related to work of the ground, the vineyard and the wines are carried out exclusively within the family framework.


One of my wines

2006 Red Wine AOC Côtes du VIVARAIS 13.5°

This wine is elaborate with identical other red wines which we produce, namely 60% grenache and 40% syrah. The slightly pressed grapes were put in separate tanks (a tank by type of vine). Alcoholic fermentation proceeded during approximately a week and was followed of a two week old maceration in order to bring colour and matter. Then the wines obtained in each tank were assembled. The dominant smell is pepper, spices and fruit compote, the wine is hot and long in mouth.

If you like the wines of character, it will be able to satisfy you immediately and will supplement a duck thigh, pork-butcheries or cheeses.