Vidal Fleury, Crozes-Hermitage, 2022

Can you imagine being Crozes-Hermitage?

Talented, incredible, prestigious in your own right...but always overshadowed by your taller brother Hermitage. The Jobe Bellingham of the wine world?

Founded in 1781, Vidal-Fleury is located in the midst of the Côte-Rôtie vineyards in the Northern Rhône, and is the oldest continuously operating wine producer in the Rhône Valley.

Jonathan Ray describes them as 'Rhône Royalty' and he is not wrong. Since the early days Vidal-Fleury has established a reputation for the production of high-quality wines which show individuality and the typicity of the different Rhône appellations from which they come.