From our importer: This Cotes du Rhone takes its name from the 45th North parallel which runs two kilometres from the cellars of Maison Paul Jaboulet Aine In the village of Pont de l’Isere, a monument symbolises this line with the inscription: “the South begins here”. The wine has had this name since the beginning of the 1950s.

60% Grenache + 40% Syrah.

Forty years ago, Paul Jaboulet Aîné was the great house of the Rhône Valley. As John Livingstone-Learmonth has written, Jaboulet was, “the yardstick … the trailblazer around the world … bringing the very hearth of the Rhône into people’s lives.”

And they did so not only from their home base of Hermitage, but from all of the great appellations throughout the Rhône. Jaboulet’s most famous wine, then and now, is the legendary Hermitage La Chapelle, made from fruit from their own vines.

Yet, from the 1950s through the 1980s—and from Côte Rôtie in the north to Châteauneuf du Pape in the south—Jaboulet also made cuvées from purchased fruit that were among the greatest wines from their respective villages.

That Jaboulet, as a negociant, could achieve such quality is explained partially by the house’s great skill in the cellar. But even more important was their access at that time to fruit from what are some of today’s most famous domaines.
Reign of the Maison

It was the time when the Rhône’s large merchants were all-powerful. Few domaines had the capacity to bottle and sell their own wines, and so the negociants formed relationships with the growers, many with astonishing holdings, to create some of the greatest wines of the day.

And none were more powerful, or made a wider range of great wines, than Jaboulet. Founded in 1834 with important holdings in both Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage, the firm had a network of hundreds of Rhône Valley growers from whom they purchased fruit. And until World War II, most of its wine (even Hermitage) was sold in cask, often to Bordeaux and Burgundy.

But under the legendary Louis Jaboulet—who ran the maison from 1935 until handing the reins to his son Gérard in 1977—Jaboulet began to bottle more and more of their own wines. This not only increased quantities of the domaine-bottled La Chapelle and Crozes-Hermitage “Domaine de Thalabert;” it gave birth to the great branded cuvées that Louis created through his relationships with the Rhône’s finest domaines.

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