Domaine Guillaume Gilles - Saint-Péray 2022 (750ml)
Price: $94.99
| Producer | Domaine Guillaume Gilles |
| Country | France |
| Region | Rhône Valley |
| Varietal | Marsanne, Roussanne |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 204507 |
| Size | 750ml |
 |
Domaine Guillaume Gilles Description
When Robert Michel decided to retire after the 2006 vintage, he did us the enormous favor of introducing us to Guillaume Gilles, a young vigneron resident in Cornas who, it turns out was Michel’s protégé. In fact, not only did Robert Michel mentor the young Guillaume Gilles, he also leased his prime parcel in the Chaillot vineyard to him and provided his cave (with all its history and secrets!) for Gilles’ use. It has been, then, a nearly seamless transition for us from Michel to Gilles.
Guillaume Gilles is convinced that Cornas is at its best when one follows the most traditional of paths. Like Michel, he eschews the destemmer (in virtually all cases), works his vineyards by hand, ages his wine in old demi-muids and bottles without fining or filtering. His Cornas is as it should be and is exactly as we like it: brawny, sometimes austere, profound, sauvage. He cultivates his vineyards with an organic philosophy and his wines are made using the natural yeasts from his grapes. He produces five wines, all of which are in excruciatingly limited supply.
Sourced from a high-altitude site near Les Rieux in which Gilles owns 1.2 total hectares, this combination of two-thirds Marsanne and one-third Roussanne fermented in steel and spent six months in wood before bottling. It offers a nice sense of equilibrium (even at higher degrees of alcohol), with notes of honey and almond nougat framing a thick blast of apricot.
| Quantity: |
