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Chérouche Chant de la Ryëre 2022

Name: Chérouche Chant de la Ryëre 2022
Brand: Chérouche
SKU: CHEROUCHE-CHANT
Price: 65.00 USD
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Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied alpine white; the high-altitude schist and quartz terroir gives the wine a taut, mineral backbone with crisp natural acidity; the no-wood, no-sulfur approach keeps the palate precise and the aromatics clean; a restrained, site-driven style of Chardonnay with no oak influence or malolactic softening
Grapes & terroir: 100% Chardonnay; organically and biodynamically farmed on steep schist, clay, and quartz slopes at 1,970–2,790 feet in Ayent, Valais, Switzerland; southeast-facing; slopes up to 38 degrees; no fertilizers or irrigation; sulfur and copper used only in minimal amounts; lunar calendar observed; herbal teas and goat whey used for vine health
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; manual destemming; slow pressing over up to 12 hours in a horizontal press; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel; two rackings before bottling; no wood, no fining, no filtration, no added sulfur
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 48–52°F; no decanting needed; the wine benefits from a few minutes in the glass to open up
Pairing: Fondue savoyarde (French alpine cheese fondue)
Similar to: Unoaked Chablis, Chasselas from Lavaux, high-altitude Chardonnay from Savoie

Chérouche Chant de la Ryëre 2022 is a dry white wine made from 100% Chardonnay grown on steep, southeast-facing slopes in Ayent, Valais, Switzerland, at elevations between approximately 1,970 and 2,790 feet. The soils are schist, clay, and quartz. Vineyards are farmed organically and biodynamically, without fertilizers or irrigation, with slopes reaching gradients of up to 38 degrees. Produced by Domaine de Chèrouche, the grapes are hand-harvested and manually destemmed, then pressed slowly before spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel. Chérouche Chant de la Ryëre 2022 is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfur. Valais, Switzerland.

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Producer profile

Chérouche

Domaine de Chèrouche is the project of Marc Balzan and Andrea Grossmann, two people who came to winemaking from very different starting points and arrived at the same place at the 2007 harvest in Villeneuve, in the canton of Vaud. Marc had started out in hospitality and sommelier work in Geneva before deciding to learn viticulture and winemaking from the ground up. Andrea grew up near Zurich, trained as a teacher, and spent years working in vineyards in Lavaux while painting large-format canvases on the side. When they met during that 2007 harvest, the idea of farming their own vines together took hold quickly.

Marc went on to spend two years at Mythopia, a pioneering natural winery in Valais, before the couple found their first plots in 2010. The name Chèrouche, a local place name translating roughly as "under the bedrock," reflects the character of the land they farm: exposed, extreme, and deeply tied to the schist and quartz subsoil beneath. The estate covers 1.3 hectares across eight plots, all in Ayent on the heights above Sion, with southeast-facing exposures between approximately 1,970 and 2,790 feet. Slopes reach up to 38 degrees and every task — pruning, canopy work, harvest, and bottling — is done by hand, just the two of them, with help from family and friends at harvest.

Farming is organic and biodynamic throughout: no fertilizers, no irrigation, only minimal sulfur and copper when necessary, and a range of herbal teas made from wormwood, nettle, yarrow, dandelion, horsetail, and goat whey applied to support vine health. The lunar calendar guides timing in both the vineyard and cellar. In the cellar, the approach is just as deliberate: indigenous yeast fermentation, stainless steel only, no wood, no fining, no filtration, no added sulfur.

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Wine region

Valais, Switzerland

Valais is the largest wine-producing canton in Switzerland, stretching along the upper Rhône Valley from Martigny eastward to Brig, flanked on both sides by some of the highest peaks in the Alps. The valley runs roughly east-west, which means the south-facing slopes on the valley's northern wall receive exceptional sun exposure despite being at Alpine altitudes. This combination of intense solar radiation, very low annual rainfall — among the driest climates in Switzerland — and cold winters defines Valaisan viticulture and makes it distinctly different from any other Swiss wine region.

Vineyards in Valais typically sit between about 1,600 and 2,800 feet in altitude, with the steepest and most prestigious sites clinging to terraced slopes with gradients that routinely exceed 30 degrees. These terraces, built and maintained over centuries, are only workable by hand. The soils vary considerably across the valley: schist, gneiss, granite, limestone, and calcareous moraines from glacial deposits all appear in different subzones, contributing to the diversity of wine styles the region produces.

Valais is home to more than 50 different grape varieties, many of them indigenous. Chasselas, locally called Fendant, is the most widely planted white and has been grown here for centuries. The region's most prized indigenous whites include Petite Arvine — a mineral, citrus-driven variety with remarkable aging potential — and Amigne, a rare, complex white found almost exclusively around the village of Vétroz. Among reds, Pinot Noir and Gamay are widespread, but the truly local varieties Cornalin and Humagne Rouge produce deeply individual, terroir-driven wines that have no equivalent elsewhere.

Ayent, where Domaine de Chèrouche's vineyards are located, sits on the north-facing slope above Sion, the canton's capital, at elevations that push toward the upper limits of viable viticulture in the region.

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