Pierre Jean Villa Crozes-Hermitage Accroche Coeur 2024 (750ml) *

Syrah is the red grape of the northern Rhône, and in Crozes-Hermitage it tends toward a supple, approachable expression of the variety, more open than its neighbors up the hill. This bottling from Pierre Jean Villa, the Accroche Coeur, comes from the 2024 vintage and speaks in that idiom: dark-fruited and peppery, the sort of Syrah built for the table rather than the cellar.