Clusel-Roch L'Hecto 2022 - 0,75l

Clusel-Roch 2022 is a dry Viognier and Marsanne white from the Rhône shaped by granite and schist near Côte-Rôtie, with herbs, flowers and quiet oak spice. It has the feel of a white made by a domaine famous for red terraces. The pleasure is in the herbal detail, the restrained fruit and the bitter almond finish.

About the Wine
The fruit for this 2022 Clusel-Roch white comes from the northern Rhône around Côte-Rôtie, a red-wine stronghold where Viognier and Marsanne feel especially deliberate. The soils named for this bottling are granite and schist, the same hard rock family that frames the domaine’s steep home vineyards near Ampuis. Organic and biodynamic certification sits behind the bottle. Clusel-Roch farms many parcels by hand on tight northern Rhône slopes. The dry balance and 13% alcohol keep the wine in a measured register. Lavender and cut grass appear before the fruit, which gives the wine a direct link to its rocky setting. In the cellar, Viognier and Marsanne are aged in oak barrels. The barrel note reads as polish and rounded texture rather than sweetness. Viognier brings elderflower, pale apricot and a scented lift that stays close to the glass. Marsanne adds wax, pear skin and the gentle bitter edge that marks the finish. A balm-like herbal note gives the wine its slightly medicinal twist. A faint bitter almond note sits on the finish after the elderflower fades.

Tasting Notes
The 2022 Clusel-Roch white opens with elderflower, lavender and a green grass note that feels cool, then moves toward pear skin and pale apricot. The dry palate has a waxy Marsanne feel through the middle, with Viognier giving lift through orange blossom, acacia and a small touch of honeyed peach. Oak barrel ageing adds a gentle frame of vanilla husk, toasted hazelnut and rounded texture, and the wood spice stays quiet around the herbs. The finish carries herbal balm, a subtle medicinal edge and a bitter almond grip that recalls Marsanne skins, with crushed stone echoing the granite and schist setting near Côte-Rôtie. Air brings out lavender honey and a dry saline edge after ten minutes in the glass; drink 2024-2027.

Food Pairing
Pour this Viognier and Marsanne blend with pan-roasted cod, fennel and a lemon-butter sauce, especially if the fish has crisp edges from the pan. For a regional Rhône and Lyonnais nod, try pike quenelles with Nantua sauce; the wine’s lavender and almond notes sit neatly beside the creamy shellfish sauce. Roast chicken with tarragon, lemon and a little garlic gives the 2022 Clusel-Roch white enough savoury weight to meet its oak-barrel texture. A plate of grilled courgettes, sweet onion and Saint-Marcellin also feels right, as the soft cheese draws out the wine’s waxy Marsanne side and the vegetables pick up its grassy note.

Producer
Clusel-Roch is rooted in Verenay, just north of Ampuis, and the family’s work is tied to narrow Côte-Rôtie terraces where each pass through granite and schist vines feels deliberate in every season of the year. The concrete trait to know is their farming: organic and biodynamic certification sits behind this 2022 white, and the same close vineyard attention used for Syrah is applied to Viognier and Marsanne from pruning through harvest. Gilbert Clusel and Brigitte Roch built the modern domaine around Côte-Rôtie, and Guillaume Clusel has helped broaden the range with white wines, Coteaux du Lyonnais bottlings and a curious eye for nearby slopes beyond the domaine’s red wines. That broader view gives this producer a different angle from many neighbours in the appellation, with a bottle like this placing white Rhône grapes beside the granite and schist vocabulary of the domaine and its home hills above Ampuis. The cellar style here reads as patient and tactile: oak barrels round the edges of the wine and the herbal notes of grass, lavender and elderflower remain clearly marked after the first swirl and a few minutes of air. In this 2022 white from Clusel-Roch, the producer’s signature feels concrete and direct: a dry palate, a lavender-scented core and a faint bitter almond finish tied to the Marsanne in the blend and the schist-toned grip after swallowing.

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