E. Guigal - Cotes du Rhone 2022 (750ml)
Price: $16.99
| Producer | E. Guigal |
| Country | France |
| Region | Rhone |
| Subregion | Cotes du Rhone |
| Varietal | Rhone Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 1996 |
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Intensely aromatic on the nose with black fruit and spice. A full, sexy palate with round and smooth tannins. A complete wine with a long finish, elegance and finesse beyond the abundance of fruit.
E. Guigal Description
The Guigal Côtes du Rhône Rouge offers tremendous warmth, spice and pleasure, but in a decidedly individual fashion. It is, unlike virtually every other Côtes du Rhône, based on Syrah, a Northern Rhône approach that lends greater aromatic intensity and structure, though is far more difficult and costly to produce in the Southern Rhône. The aging also goes far other wine in the appellation in its category, a minimum of two years in a combination of stainless steel and foudres, with a deliberate blending over the course of that time that results in a wine of remarkable harmony and complexity. It is an extraordinary value and a benchmark for the region from one of the world’s most lauded producers.
Jeb Dunnuck: 91 Points
The Cotes Du Rhone is smoking good, offering up blackberries, pepper, and garrigue in a round, supple, medium to full-bodied style. Based on 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache, and 10% Mourvèdre, partially aged in oak foudres, this impressive effort shows remarkable quality for the appellation.
Wine Enthusiast: 91 Points
Black plum and cocoa-dusted, white-button-mushroom aromas bump against raspberry and black tea, on the nose. The palate is fulsome in body yet reserved in flavor with red fruit riding all the way to the finish that is made more complex by velvety tannins that demure.
Vinous: 90 Points
The 2022 Cotes-du-Rhone is delicious as it launches with juicy black fruits, licorice and fleshy aromas. Touching the medium to full-bodied palate with heightened flavor concentration neatly lifted by balancing acidity, the smoothly-structured 2022 doubles down with plenty of savoriness on eh well-composed finish. This offers plenty of bang for the buck.
Wine Advocate: 90 Points
Notes of lilac, dark cherries and flowers preface Guigal’s 2022 Côtes du Rhône, a juicy, round and elegant wine that is also remarkably dense for the vintage and represents excellent value.
James Suckling: 89 Points
A fruit-driven and juicy Cotes-du-Rhone with cassis, dark cherries and mild spices on the nose. It's medium-bodied with slightly rustic tannins. Peppery and firm finish. Drink now.
Wine Spectator: 89 Points
A gutsy, ripe style, with density and grippy, graphite-edged tannins holding firm a core of strappy cherry, plum and peppercorn. Dry on the finish, with plumes of alder smoke. Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah. Drink now.
