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Online Shop >  France - Rhône Valley (Southern Rhône)
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Half Bottles Gigondas

Region France - Rhône Valley (Southern Rhône)
Grape Grenache/Syrah/Mouvèdre/Cinsault
Producer Domaines Brunier
Vintage 2005
Colour Red
Dryness Dry
Body Full Bodied
Food Game/Mixed Grill/Beef Olives/Cheddar
Drink Drink or keep
Half Bottles Gigondas - 2005
Domaines Brunier



Ref: A951605

This is a big wine but it does retain a cool-climate elegance with a pleasant wood spice, plenty of sweet cherries, garrigue, and a floral note. Medium to full-bodied, this wine seems to be the best example yet of combining power and elegance from this well-known property. About 25% stems are used in the winemaking, and the wine is of course bottled unfiltered.

This splendid domaine was bought (just before the 1998 harvest) by the Brunier family (of Châteauneuf-du-Pape la Roquette and Vieux Télégraphe) and their American importer, Kermit Lynch. The estate has seen considerable investment with the installation of a new computerised cuvage. There is no doubt that this investment has done nothing but enhance the quality of the wines coming from this estate.

It is one of the most beautiful estates in southern France, with its terraced vineyards forming an amphitheatre around the old house. It also has one of the coolest micro-climates in the Gigondas appellation.

At its pinnacle in the late 1970’s, this great domaine was making some of the southern Rhône’s finest wines but as the Roux brothers became less dynamic with age, this exceptional vein of quality gradually disappeared.

80% Grenache, 5% Cinsault and 5% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah.

Price:   £11.53
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