2020 Gigondas Les Souteyrades Saint Damien

Jeb Dunnuck - 97

The 2020 Gigondas Les Souteyrades is also absolutely brilliant. Giving up lots of cherry liqueur, orange blossom, ground pepper, and herbes de Provence-like aromatics, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness and a layered, seamless, elegant mouthfeel that has awesome tannins as well as purity of fruit. It's another sensational Gigondas to enjoy over the coming two decades.

TERROIR: Clayey soil with little stoniness
from the Quaternary period.
Plots on the low terraces of the
the Gigondas appellation in the village of Les Souteyrades.
GRAPE VARIETIES: Grenache 80%, Mourvèdre 20%.
AGE OF THE VINES : Grenache (1948)
Mourvèdre (1977).
VINIFICATION : Blending during bottling.
Long maceration of 7 weeks in concrete tanks.
MATURATION: Aged for 12 months in oak barrels.
Bottled without fining or filtration.