Martine Chermette’s grandmother was born and raised among the vines at Pierreux, just outside the small hamlet of Odenas. As Martine puts it: “For sentimental reasons [we] couldn’t resist buying this little plot of vines at the foot of Mont Brouilly.” They chose well. Chermette tends just 1.5 hectares of vines at the base of Mont Brouilly with 60-year-old roots delving deep into the eroded granite and bluestone that has been washed down from the mountain over millennia. The name Pierreux comes from the word pierres (‘stones’), illustrating the makeup of the soil. The new release is already leaping out the glass with oodles of juicy, crisp-edged blue fruits framed by elegant, powdery tannins and that crushed stone minerality that Chermette attributes to the volcanic blue andesite stones.