St-Joseph Le Blanchard Xavier Gerard

Xavier Gérard took over his family`s holdings in 2012-13 (his father François bottled the first Côte-Rôtie in 1980) and farms 7.5 hectares across Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu and Saint-Joseph. Le Blanchard is a Saint-Joseph plot leased from the family of the late Gérard Villano, one of the few stand-out sites in the north of the appellation, on limestone bedrock. Hand-worked, natural fermentations, élevage mostly in demi-muids.