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Domaine du Monteillet/Stéphane Montez

Stephane Montez had just put the finishing touches on an enormous new chai when I visited him in mid-November, and by the looks of it he has increased his space five-fold. He's selling less and less wine to the negoce every year and the estate owns a lot of land, so he's getting set for the day when he is able to bottle all his production himself. He told me that 85% of his vineyards are in Saint-Joseph "and less than one kilometer from the winery, which makes things extremely efficient for harvesting and getting the grapes in quickly." Montez is thrilled with the quality of his 2009s, especially because he barely dodged a devastating hailstorm that swept through the area on the morning of August 28th. "It was horrible," he said. "We knew that it was coming and I was sitting on my tractor at the top of the hill, looking down on my vineyards and freaking out, watching the hail come closer. Then about five meters away from my first row of vines it just banked away and took off to the south. I didn't get a single hailstone. That afternoon I went to Mass."

From 2009 and 2008 Northern Rhone Wines (Jan 2011) by Josh Raynolds

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