The Washington Post’s wine columnist, Dave McIntyre, included E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rosé 2017 in his latest column as a great value wine. He elaborated that Guigal is “perhaps the most famous producer in the northern Rhone Valley, and its rosé is a perennial favorite.” Additionally, he noted the wine “offers great juicy fruit and refreshing acidity.”
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The E. Guigal 2015 Saint-Joseph Rouge was featured in Brian Freedman’s Forbes.com column “Wines of The Week: Syrah And Viognier For The Summer,” just in time to inspire our weekend wine purchases! Brian selected the Saint-Joseph Rouge from E. Guigal as the red Wine of the Week, which he called “one of the most instantly recognizable names of the Rhone Valley.” He described the Saint-Joseph as having “generous fruit complicated by the quintessentially savory notes of floral peppercorn and serious minerality.” In addition, Brian noted that the wine “shows an appealing mix of cherry, plum, fig cake, and star anise, all of it cut through with mouthwatering acidity that allows the subtly smoky finish to linger.”
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Writer Russ Winton included the wine he enjoyed over July 4th weekend with his Modesto Bee readers. Within Russ’ Wine List column, he shares that the 2015 E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rouge “is aged two years and a great value at $15. A light chill made it perfect for the July 4 barbecue.”
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Super flyovers of Cote-Rotie and a dive into the Guigal cellar. If you didn’t know how steep the vineyards of Cote-Rotie were before – and how backbreaking the work to harvest – this video certainly illustrates the point. As the saying goes, on the flats of Bordeaux 1 person can cover 250 acres through mechanization. In Burgundy, where work must all be done by hand because of vineyard spacing, 1 person can cover 12 acres. In the Northern Rhone, everything has to be done by hand AND the slopes are so steep, 1 person can work 5 acres.
“The 2015 Côtes du Rhône checks in as a final blend of 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache and the rest Mourvèdre. It offers a juicy, Syrah-driven bouquet of ripe blackberry fruits, smoked meats, pepper, and hints of underbrush as well as a rich, medium to full-bodied, polished style on the palate. It has ripe tannin, plenty of mid-palate depth, and as I wrote when I tasted it from barrel close to two years ago, it’s a beautiful Côtes du Rhône that will deliver the goods.”
“An array of sweet-smelling spices and a green-ish pepper edge to the nose with plenty of dark plums, crushed dark violety florals and grilled raisin toast. The palate has smooth, sweeping tannins that build in waves of pastry-like, plush and velvety texture. Long blood plum and creamy espresso finish. Drink now and beyond.”
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Philippe Guigal led a deep dive into Cote-Rotie in New York City this past week, and we wanted to share the tasting book from the extraordinary event.
