Domaine Gour de Chaule Gigondas 'Le Gour' 2023 Size:750ml The vines are 45 years

The vines are 45 years old and they sit with an east-southeast exposure

With its five-plus years of lees aging and its hand-riddling and manual disgorgement

has been engaged in a decades-long passion project of breeding the fabled but near-extinct Huchen-the royal fish of the Habsburgs-and repopulating the river with them

The family’s exceptionally old plot—over 70 years of age—renders a wine of impressive concentration and power

It shows a balance and purity of fruit that is especially attractive compared to the many over-ripe and heavily extracted wines found in the Southern Rhône

Domaine Gour de Chaule Gigondas 'Le Gour' 2023 Size:750ml The vines are 45 yearsThe sibling of La Numero Huit, Le Gour employs similar methodsa long and gentle extraction, a high proportion of whole clusters, a years worth of aging in cement egg with minimal sulfurwith vines from a notably different terroir: 80 year old Grenache planted in the Le Gour vineyards limestone rich clay. Le Gour offers a minerality simultaneously refined and punchy, with lip smacking tannins and a remarkable sense of acid driven focus. Here again one