Domaine Gour de Chaule Gigondas 'Le Gour' 2023

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Domaine Gour de Chaule Gigondas 'Le Gour' 2023The sibling of La Numero Huit, Le Gour employs similar methodsa long and gentle extraction, a high proportion of whole clusters, a years worth of aging in cement egg with minimal sulfurwith vines from a notably different terroir: 80 year old Grenache planted in the Le Gour vineyards limestone rich clay. Le Gour offers a minerality simultaneously refined and punchy, with lip smacking tannins and a remarkable sense of acid driven focus. Here again one

the 2024 “Charmes” is comprised of 40% Grenache

The wine is bottled in the spring of the year following harvest then given several months of bottle age before being shipped to the USA

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

Two-thirds of the cuvée spends 15 months in new low-toast 350-liter barrels

Light in alcohol (around 12%)

Produced solely from the Fumin grape

3-hectare parcel of 30-year-old Chardonnay (formerly part of Domaine Lucien Jacob) in the renowned Savigny-les-Beaune premier cru Les Vergelesses

it whispers to the taster and invites contemplation as it unfolds slowly and gracefully across the palate

The most important wine of the estate

candied lemons

The Vino Nobile was first vinified in 1993

and despite its 15