Christelle Betton Crozes Hermitage Rouge Espiegle 2022 SPRHONE peppery and light on its

peppery and light on its feet: red berries

Made from high quality Indica rice and Okinawa black koji

which fills in the middle

it was natural for the Enrico Toro Casauria Distillery to create a liqueur

and ginger peel giving way to a precise

Christelle Betton Crozes Hermitage Rouge Espiegle 2022 SPRHONE peppery and light on itsEspiegle means mischievous in French, and that's exactly the mood Christelle Betton is going for here. This is Northern Rhone Syrah in a bright, playful register, all juicy energy rather than brooding heft, made to open young and disappear fast. Betton is the third generation of her family working these Crozes Hermitage slopes, and she even holds a tiny sliver of the great Hermitage hill. She farms organically without bothering to chase certification,