Guillaume Gilles Cotes du Rhone Rouge 'Les Peyrouses' 2019

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Guillaume Gilles Cotes du Rhone Rouge 'Les Peyrouses' 2019Hailing from the flats just to the east of the Cornas appellation, Les Peyrouses Rouge is a remarkable and unique wine: pure Syrah planted in the 1870s, during phylloxeras initial outbreak, and in fact comprising the very first grafted vines in the area. The soil in this vineyard is a mix of sand and clay, with loads of large limestone pudding stones, and the wine Guillaume coaxes from these astonishingly old vines is so powerful in its fruit that he

Sourced from a single hectare of the rare red Xarel·lo

This cuvée comes from six parcels in the canton of Fully—home to the only granitic soils in the Valais

It is both delicate and penetrating

the principal one of which is known as “Les Rochettes”

soft tannins that wrap around the dark fruit core and a light finish

an ethereal element to its aromas and flavors that make this a unique offering … clearly a rare and special experience

Tannins are firm but not mean

for this bottling still impresses

blueberries

with its classically steely manzanilla character delivered on a lighter-alcohol and more fruit-inflected frame

and helps deliver

Fermentation begins and slowly progresses until the sugar level reaches 16% to 18%