Northern Rhone-inspired Syrah with the kind of cracked-pepper-and-violet lift that has made Pax a benchmark for California's cool-climate Syrah movement
The 2015 vintage was warm and generous
nicknamed "Le Marquis et La Marquise" by their village
this wine captures the essence of this fog-cooled maritime climate
A short skin maceration precedes stainless steel fermentation and lees aging
Troupis, Hoof & Lur, 2025 NO20230816 Northern Rhone-inspired Syrah with theMoschofilero has pink skins, so when Troupis ferments it on those skins the wine comes out somewhere between copper and blush perfumed like a white, textured like a red. The name is a nod to the god Pan: the hoof for the old, minimal intervention way of making wine, the pipe for the modern touches that let them do it precisely. Troupis is a family winery up on the Mantinia plateau in Arcadia, in the middle of the Peloponnese, and this fruit grows at