Gigondas, Les Pallieres...
Yesterday we had a visit from Daniel Brunier from the great Gigondas estate of Les Pallieres and we were fortunate to taste through a selection of his recent vintages.
We started off with the 2005 (£17.99) very youthful fruit with more than a touch of tannin, very young at the moment. Dig in, in another 3 years or so and will easily last for 10 years plus.
The we tasted the 2004 (£17.99) this was just showing the first signs of losing its youthful fruit, still has the strong tannins but was showing very well. Still needs a bit of time or a good couple of hours in jug. Pretty much text book stuff.
Finally we tasted the 2003 (£17.99), this was a very warm summer with no rain at all. The vines here are over 60 years of age and this clearly helped. The wine it bigger more concentrated, with little riper fruit and some big tannins. This is certainly a powerful wine.
The 2004 shaded it for us but the 2003 or 2005 will be available by the case if anybody was especially after one of them.
The 2004 should be with us early May.
Yesterday we had a visit from Daniel Brunier from the great Gigondas estate of Les Pallieres and we were fortunate to taste through a selection of his recent vintages.
We started off with the 2005 (£17.99) very youthful fruit with more than a touch of tannin, very young at the moment. Dig in, in another 3 years or so and will easily last for 10 years plus.
The we tasted the 2004 (£17.99) this was just showing the first signs of losing its youthful fruit, still has the strong tannins but was showing very well. Still needs a bit of time or a good couple of hours in jug. Pretty much text book stuff.
Finally we tasted the 2003 (£17.99), this was a very warm summer with no rain at all. The vines here are over 60 years of age and this clearly helped. The wine it bigger more concentrated, with little riper fruit and some big tannins. This is certainly a powerful wine.
The 2004 shaded it for us but the 2003 or 2005 will be available by the case if anybody was especially after one of them.
The 2004 should be with us early May.
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