2018 Guillaume Gilles - Cotes du Rhone, Les Peyrouses (1.5L)
Price: $132.00
This 100% Syrah comes from old vines planted on sandy soil in the flats just east of the Cornas appellation. This drinks like a baby Cornas and is in fact vinified in the same manner as Gilles Cornas; 30 days on skins in cement vats with 100% whole-cluster inclusion followed by 12 months in Demi-muids. Perfect with burgers, it is dark fruited, feral but not too structured with powerful minerality and an effortless quality to it. We like to drink Syrah with a chill on it, and suggest you serve this just above cellar temperature. Cellar temp is 55 degrees – serve at 60 - 62 degree Fahrenheit.
John Livingstone-Learmonth - The Cradle of the Rhone
Full red; the nose is on reduction, has a thick aroma, raspberry coulis that comes with a butty insistence. The palate starts with density, develops length, vigour, leaves a long trail, has a robust, firm close, dense packing. This is grounded, sure-footed. From 2022, decant it. It’s again a Côtes du Rhône. “it’s usually very gourmand, with a lot of tannin, but the large crop in 2018 and 2019 served to soften the tannins,” Guillaume Gilles.
- Producer: Guillaume Gilles
- Country: France
- Region: Rhone
- Subregion: Northern Rhone
- Variety: Syrah
- Vintage: 2018
- Sku: 11038
- Size: 1.5L
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