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The wines > Gigondas

• BERTRAND STEHELIN
  

  LVT 2008 r Very small estate towards Sablet, authentic wines

• CAVE DE GIGONDAS
  

  LVT 2008 r 33% sold to merchants. Annual average of 400,000 bottles of all Gigondas. They make 5,000 HL of Gigondas, and 4,000 HL of all other wines – vin de pays, vin de table, CdRhône, Séguret (their only Village). 83 adherents, av holding 2.3 hectares, all of them have Gigondas vines. Has always produced wines that demonstrate the merits of a small scale Co-operative. The reds are usually well filled and have some local character. Signature is very sound, and good value, too.

• CHÂTEAU DE MONTMIRAIL
  

  LVT 2007 r wh rosé Wines likely to become more polished in future

• CHÂTEAU DE SAINT COSME
  

  LVT 2008 r 2008 wh Exuberant wines, lots of oak

• CHÂTEAU DU TRIGNON
  

  LVT 2007 r Big change of outlook, since this estate was bought by Jérome Quiot of Domaine du Vieux Lazaret at Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The wines have always been quite modern; now they will be very modern. Sound Rasteau, Sablet and Plan de Dieu as well.

• CHÂTEAU RASPAIL
  

  LVT 2008 r Christian is the son of the legendary Gabriel Meffre

• CLOS DU JONCUAS
  

  LVT 2008 r Organic farming here, with wines that need time to integrate. The reds contain very good fruit purity in the warmer years, but the tannins can need be rather austere early on.

• DOMAINE DE FONT-SANE
  

  LVT 2007 r Greater use of oak than in the past, but the wines have good heart. Also superior Ventoux.

• DOMAINE DE LA DAYSSE
  

  LVT 2006 r Offshoot of Gabriel Meffre. Sound enough wine

• DOMAINE DE LA MAVETTE
  

  LVT 2008 r Another example of an improved Gigondas domaine, with more precise winemaking since the mid-2000s

• DOMAINE DE LONGUE TOQUE
  

  LVT 2008 r Part of the Gabriel Meffre empire since 1999

• DOMAINE DES BOSQUETS
  

  LVT 2007 r In the same ownership as the Château de Vaudieu at Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Recent improvement, with richer wines, the crop later picked than in the past. Modern leaning.

• DOMAINE DES ESPIERS
  

  LVT 2008 r The switched-on owner is married to the also switched-on owner of Domaine de Montvac at Vacqueyras. There can be great fruit in the Côtes du Rhône.

• DOMAINE DES FLORETS
  

  LVT 2007 r Jérome Boudier has worked in large enterprises around the Southern Rhône, including Costières de Nimes, Laudun and the Cellier des Princes. His vineyards are at altitude near the Dentelles, and the first wines are rather promising. His parents are olive growers near Puyméras. His first vintage was 2006.

• DOMAINE DES TOURELLES
  

  LVT 2007 r STGT domaine, with Roger Cuillerat the classic man of the soil. The domaine was sold to the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel in early September, 2008.

• DOMAINE DU CAYRON
  

  LVT 2007 r Changing style here with the new generation

• DOMAINE DU GOUR DE CHAULÉ
  

  LVT 2008 r rosé Traditional, whole bunch fermentation. Gradually freshening style of wines.

• DOMAINE DU GRAND BOURJASSOT
  

  LVT 2008 r A name to watch. Cécile Varenne married Jean-Yves Perez of Domaine de l`Obrieu at Visan in Sept 2009 - two promising growers getting together, c`est bien.

• DOMAINE DU GRAPILLON D`OR
  

  LVT 2008 r Benchmark Gigondas, with STGT leanings. Sound Vacqueyras from a small vineyard.

• DOMAINE DU PESQUIER
  

  LVT 2008 r

• DOMAINE DU TERME
  

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• DOMAINE LA BOUISSIÈRE
  

  LVT 2007 r

• DOMAINE LA BOUSCATIERE
  

  LVT 2005 r Natural, country wines with STGT leanings. A lot is sold in bulk to merchants

• DOMAINE LA ROUBINE
  

  LVT 2008 r An ex-Co-operateur, Eric has been a vigneron since 1990. His first wine was 2000. Good quality, STGT leanings, too.

• DOMAINE LE PÉAGE
  

  LVT 2004 r Only 10% is bottled – 5,000 bottles. The same family as Domaine La Bouscatière.

• DOMAINE LES CHÊNES BLANCS
  

  LVT 2007 r Good Gigondas here, whole bunch use. Clément`s uncle is Thiérry Faravel.

• DOMAINE LES GOUBERT
  

  LVT 2008 r 2007 wh Quirky, experimental, Jean-Pierre Cartier has long been a vigneron of note. The first to use new oak in 1985, via his Cuvée Florence. Also good Sablet, Beaumes-de-Venise. Daughter Florence now working on the domaine.

• DOMAINE LES PALLIÈRES
  

  LVT 2009 r The Brunier-Kermit Lynch estate. Refined wines. The standard wine was split into two different cuvées in 2007, one from near the domaine (Les Racines), the other from higher up (Terrsses du Diable). Les Racines, from older vines, is the winner, a very stylish wine.

• DOMAINE LES TEYSSONNIÈRES
  

  LVT 2007 r Franck Alexandre, President of the Growers Union, also works closely with the Perrin family, for their Perrin et Fils range. The sandiest soils in Gigondas.

• DOMAINE NOTRE DAME DES PALLIÈRES
  

  LVT 2008 r Improving wines

• DOMAINE RASPAIL-AY
  

  LVT 2008 r Very consistent, high quality - full, robust wines that reward patience to allow their tannins to settle and integrate. Some of the wines are STGT.

• DOMAINE SAINT DAMIEN
  

  LVT 2008 r Sweetening, smoothing wines under the influence of the well-known Châteauneuf-du-Pape oenologue adviser, Philippe Cambie, who favours markedly ripe cropping and low sulphur use – think Domaine Saint-Préfert, for example. They are interesting in the sleek, modern way.

• DOMAINE SAINT FRANÇOIS XAVIER
  

  LVT 2008 r 4th generation domaine that is now bottling more than in the past. Connections with a bottle shop - the Tour de l`Isle wine

• DOMAINE SAINT-GAYAN
  

  LVT 2008 r Top-class Gigondas domaine. Very long-lived wines, from the heart of the matter.

• DOMAINE SAINTE ANNE
  

  LVT 2006 r Modern style vinification, although concrete vat raising. Correct Gigondas here, especially if left to mature.

• DOMAINE SANTA DUC
  

  LVT 2007 r Yves Gras makes punchy wines that tread a tightrope between mature finesse and concentrated extraction. He has a busy merchant business as well - includes good Roaix.

• FLORENT and DAMIEN BURLE
  

  LVT 2007 r Two of the three sons of the late lamented Edmond Burle, both in their early thirties. As expected, natural, whole bunch wines with lots of guts in them. STGT notions here.

• GABRIEL MEFFRE
  

  LVT 2008 r wh 2006 rosé Bought in 2009 by Boisset, the BIG CHEESE company of France actuellement. Where Boisset go with it, and what they do with the Gigondas Domaine de Longue Toque and the Château Grand Escalion at Costières de Nimes remains to be seen. The company that brings you Fat Bastard wines, as well as the supermarket favourite Côtes-du-Rhône La Châsse du Pape red. Gabriel was the main man at Gigondas post-World War Two.

• LE MAS DES FLAUZIÈRES
  

  LVT 2008 r Recent improvement

• MAS DES RESTANQUES
  

  LVT 2008 r 2007 wh Ex Co-operateurs at Vacqueyras. Jean-Luc is from that village, Josie from Gigondas. First wine in 2007.

• MOULIN DE LA GARDETTE
  

  LVT 2008 r Carefully made, interesting wines from a domaine moving to organic cultivation

• PIERRE AMADIEU
  

  LVT 2008 r 2007 rosé Improved wines, definite signs of revival at this long-established, large domaine.