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Johann Michel
Johann Michel discovered his passion for wine while tasting older vintages of wine withhis
grandfather and uncle, notable winemaker Robert Michel, in Cornas . Though he started his
professional life working in clothing retail, he quickly realized that he was neither making the
professional life orking in clothing retailhe quickly realized that he as neither making the
of his own label Cornas was 1997.He now farms 4.17 hectares in Cornas, one of the smallest
AOCs in all of France (it encompasses only 288 hectares ,) Though his methods at this point
are largely constituted as lutte raisonnée, Michel is interested in biodynamics and has already
started to incorporate some practices like cooper treatment as opposed to harsher chemicals
on the vines . Yields for Cornas AOC are notoriously low (33 hl/ha) which accounts for the
intense concentration of the juice over all. His total annual production amounts only to about
20,000 btls/year
Michel’s Cornas’ are precise and arguably more linear than the average bottling out of the
black olive, and pepper. Michel also produces an entry level Syrah called Grains Noirs or
Black Grapes, the first vintage of which is 2012. This bottling is also 100% Syrah but made
from grapes falling both within and slightly outside of the delimitation of Cornas AOC. This
es falling both ithin and slightly outside of the delimitation of Cornas
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Bernard Gripa
