2019 Gigondas Les Souteyrades Saint Damien

Jeb Dunnuck 94-96: 2020-2035, Also showing considerable elegance, the 2019 Gigondas Les Souteyrades sports a ruby/purple hue to go with beautiful and exotic notes of black raspberries, cherry, candied orange, violets, and peppery garrigue. Beautifully balanced, medium to full-bodied, and downright silky on the palate, this heavenly Grenache should be snatched up by readers. It's going to keep for 15 years.

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.