2020 Domaine du Gour de Chaulé Gigondas Cuvée Tradition

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  3/11/2024 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Gour de Chaulé's 2020 Gigondas Cuvée Tradition is a Grenache-dominated (>80%) blend, balanced with roughly equal aliquots of Syrah and Mourvèdre. This particular bottle was Vinturi-decanted and serially tasted over a three-hour interval, significantly benefitting from the first couple of hours in carafe. When fully open, the aromatic profile flaunts a bounty of dark bramble fruits, licorice, Provençal herbs, white pepper, loam and pickling spice. Medium-bodied, fresh, seamlessly alcoholic (14.5%) and with well-woven wood, it delivers flavors mirroring the nose, wrapping them with plentiful silky tannins and retaining good density on the mid-palate. The energetic finish is impressively long. This is a beautifully structured Southern Rhone that should provide lots of pleasure over the next ten or more years. Drink now-2034.

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  3/5/2024 - Ellen5181 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Appearance - clear, medium plus ruby.
  
  Nose - it’s been open a few hours. At first there wasn’t much and it was too cold. Yes, I’m drinking it too early but hey….judge elsewhere. I have a second bottle. Ok, a lot of alcohol on nose. You get eye burn. Youthful. Jammy fruits. Cedar. While it’s not totally meshed yet, you do pick up subtle other notes. Olive brine, almonds, Italian spices and herbs, medium plus. Very aromatic.
  
  Palate - it’s a wow of flavor. Acidity is medium plus, body is medium plus, balanced, finish is medium plus, it’s a big juicy wine. Tastes great. Refreshing. Notes of red and black berries. Tannins are medium. Really feel them after you swallow.the nose offers more notes than palate at this point. Alcohol is integrated on palate but you feel it. 14.5 is no joke. Definitely better with food. Slight stemmy bitterness but could also be due to skin.
  
  It’s a lovely wine. Drinking too early but hopefully a bench mark for aging.
  
  Show restraint and at this price point a nice value.

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  1/1/2024 - BrunelloBob wrote:

  meh

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  11/27/2023 - M.Y. Chong Likes this wine:

  Drank over two days.
  This is lovely now. Open inviting nose. Beef fat and smoke on the nose.
  Ripe fruit with olives and lavender. The lavender being quite prominent.
  The tannins need food - This is not for drinking on its own. It gave me a headache the next day despite only having a moderate portion.
  I wish Gigondas had less alcohol.
  £21 from The Wine Society

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  8/12/2023 - maxmanx wrote:

  Didn't pay enough attention.

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