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Deeply colored, the 2018 Côtes Du Roussillon Villages is a step up over the 2017 and has rocking notes of black raspberries, blackberries, spring flowers, licorice, and graphite. It's rich and full-bodied, with a terrific mid-palate and a great finish.
A fresh, easy-drinking, attractive, unifying Saint Joseph... It is signed Guigal!Its dark red color with purplish tints reveals a powerful nose dominated by red fruits and subtly charged with the delicate aromas of wood from the barrels. In the mouth, the frank and fruity attack is followed by supple and round tannins. A Saint-Joseph that is easy to drink...
ESTATE PRICE! The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape has a gorgeous nose of ripe red and black fruits, smoked game, iron, and some tapenade to go with medium to full-bodied richness and depth on the palate. It’s one heck of a great base cuvée and certainly stands up to the smaller production special cuvées. The blend is 65% Grenache, 20% Syrah, and the rest...
ESTATE PRICE! A blend of equal parts Marsanne and Roussanne, the 2021 Crozes-Hermitage Mule Blanche has a rounded, medium-bodied, nicely textured style that carries plenty of pear, citrus blossom, and sappy herbs notes as well as a touch of salty minerality. A fleshy, undeniably delicious, balanced white, it's ideal for drinking over the coming 4-5...
ESTATE PRICE! This terroir always delivers a wild, opulent, gamey style of wine, and the 2017 Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert doesn’t disappoint. Loads of chocolaty black fruits, ground pepper, truffle, and smoked game, as well as a hint of black olives, emerge from the glass, and it’s medium to full-bodied, has a rocking texture, ripe tannins,...
ESTATE PRICE! Showing beautifully, the 2015 Châteauneuf Du Pape Domaine de Terre Ferme Blanc offers a fresh, yet medium to full-bodied, textured style to go with terrific notes of juicy white peach, green citrus, sappy flowers and a hint of crushed rocks.
The Châteauneuf du Pape appellation is located in the heart of the southern Rhône Valley. The terroir is one of the greatest references of French wine. Its soil is composed of rolled pebbles which is the true trademark of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. At the Guigal estate, the vines are on average 50 years old, which favors the renown of this red wine. This Rhone...
ESTATE PRICE! The 2018 Cornas Les Grandes Terrasses is impressive, with a deep, black-fruited core to go with notes of chocolate, graphite, cedarwood, and gamey nuances. Rich, medium to full-bodied, concentrated, and tight and closed on the palate, I suspect it's going to benefit from 2-4 years of bottle age and keep for well over a decade.
ESTATE PRICE! Paul Jaboulet-Aîné is the emblematic name of the great wines of the Northern Rhône Valley. It was founded in 1834 in Tain L'Hermitage. The renowned oenologist and winemaker Caroline Frey runs this illustrious house.In 2007, she acquired the Domaine de la Terre Ferme, with the ambition of making the property a standard among the great...
ESTATE PRICE! the 2020 Crozes Ermitage Les Varonniers comes from a cooler, granite terroir just beside Hermitage. All destemmed Syrah brought up in 20% new French oak, it's slightly tight and closed aromatically yet has solid purity in its darker, cassis and currant-like fruit as well as truffly earth and gunpowder nuances. This ripe, powerful,...
ESTATE PRICE! Le Côte Rôtie Les Rochins 2020 verra 20 mois en chêne français neuf à 30 % avant d'être mis en bouteille. Sa couleur pourpre profonde est suivie d'un Côte Rôtie concentré, mûr et sexy qui regorge d'arômes et de saveurs de fruits bleus et noirs, d'épices grillées, de chocolat et de fleurs. Riche, mi-corsé à corsé, avec juste un soupçon de...
ESTATE PRICE! A smaller production cuvée based largely on Roussanne, with 5% Clairette, the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Cuvée Des Generations Marie-Leoncie Blanc is another richer style of white, offering plenty of honeyed citrus, toasted almonds, white flowers, and honeysuckle aromas to go with a medium to full-bodied, rich, concentrated style on the...
ESTATE PRICE! Vaudieu, it is for several centuries one of the most prestigious domains of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, The elegance of the Terroirs of Vaudieu, is revealed and sublimated with this cuvée Val de Dieu (assembly of grenache, syrah, mourvèdre of more than 80 years) acts as a reference impossible to circumvent in Chateauneuf du Pape! On this...
ESTATE PRICE ! The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Boisrenard Blanc is a crazy mix of just about every variety and was raised 65% in foudre and 35% in old barrels. It's a deeper, richer white offering ample spice, baked apple, and Tarte Tatin-like notes in a balanced, still vibrant, fresh style. It's going to benefit from a year or two of bottle age, and it too...
On the nose this 2014 transports us to the garrigue, we also distinguish beautiful notes of incense, raspberry jam, prune as well as touches of soy sauce and black pepper. An atypical nose, powerful and of a unique concentration. A great wine
Brimming with ripe fruit aromas, the 2013 IGP Vaucluse Rouge perfectly handles Mediterranean flavors and a sparkling ardor. Its smoky, slightly wild notes come to life in a fleshy, powerful mouthfeel without excess. It is a wine of artist, of free expression, with a grandiose charm. It needs a braised red meat, a nice piece of beef with thyme, to release...
ESTATE PRICE! Purple ruby color, expressive nose of black fruits, cocoa, mint.Ample and dense palate with a mineral freshness, the tannins are fine, elegant and fragrant.
Readers looking for a richer, more concentrated style of white should snatch up the 2021 Châteauneuf Du Pape Les Vieilles Roussanne, a 100% Roussanne from the older vines on the estate. Its medium gold hue is followed by a terrific perfume of buttered orchard fruits, spice, mint, and chalky minerality. Balanced on the palate, it's medium-bodied, has a...
All Grenache Blanc brought up in older barrels, the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Clos Du Belvédère Blanc is light gold-hued and boasts a vibrant, clean, straight-up juicy bouquet of tart peach, minty herbs, and crushed stone. Medium bodied on the palate, it builds nicely with time in the glass and has wonderful freshness and purity as well as a classy, dry...
ESTATE PRICE! The flagship cuvée is the 2018 Châteauneuf Du Pape Cuvée Des Generations Gaston Philippe. It offers more oak as well as concentration and depth. Ripe, powerful blue fruits, violets, plums, and incense notes all flow to a medium to full-bodied, concentrated 2018 that brings the power yet stays pure, balanced, and focused. It’s a beautiful...