Gigondas: Domaine Santa Duc, one of the appellation’s star producers
Website: https://www.santaduc.fr/en/ Benjamin Gras hosted me at Santa Duc, which is located on the higher plain of Gigondas at 150
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Gigondas: Domaine des Bousquets
I tasted these wines over dinner with Julien Bréchet (pictured above) of Domaine des Bosquets. He took over the family
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Gigondas: Domaine des Florets, a new ecologically focused domaine
Website: https://www.domainedesflorets.com/en/home Jérôme Rathle was an environmental consultant, and had worked for he world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM, until
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Gigondas: Pierre Amadieu
Website: https://www.pierre-amadieu.com/en/ Pierre Amadieu is an important producer in Gigondas, with around 10% of the appellation’s vineyard area. They have
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Gigondas: Saint Cosme, with Louis Barruol
Website: https://www.saintcosme.com/ Louis Barruol of Château Saint Cosme is one of the presidents of the Gigondas appellation, and he’s making
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Gigondas: one of the Rhône’s most famous crus, celebrated for its reds but now making whites too
Website: https://www.gigondas-vin.com/en/home/ Gigondas is one of the most prestigious of the Rhône crus (the average bottle price in France for
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Gigondas goes white: tasting the first of the new Gigondas Blanc wines
There’s a lot of excitement in Gigondas about white wines. From 2023, Gigondas can be white as well as red!
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Rhone discovery (6) a big tasting of Ventoux wines
The Ventoux appellation in the southern Rhône is seriously underrated. I spent a few days there and came away enthused
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Rhône discovery (5) Xavier Vignon, Ventoux
Xavier Vignon arrived in the southern Rhône in 1996 as a winemaker and consultant and fell in love with the
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Chapoutier’s Sélection Parcellaire releases, 2023
Chapoutier Sélections Parcellaires En Primeur 2023 When it comes to Rhône wines, no names are bigger than M Chapoutier. But
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