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2016 E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone
- France
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 19 / 750ml
- Red - Rich and Intense
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This producer also makes a white and a rose wine. Ensure your merchant has the color you are looking for.
Producer tasting notes: "Eye : Deep and dark red. Shiny. Nose : Fresh fruits with red berries and spices. Palate : Full, round and racy. Rounded and smooth tannins. A full-bodied, rich and intensly aromatic wine. Overall : Full with a long finish and plenty of elegance and finesse due to the well balanced tannins and fruit." - E. Guigal
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Highlights
- From Cotes du Rhone, France
- Avg. Price (ex-tax) $ 19 / 750ml
- Red Wine – Rich and Intense
- Southern Rhone Red Blend
- Pairs well with Lamb
Winery
E. Guigal is one of the most notable wine producers in the Rhône Valley. It was founded in 1946 by Etienne Guigal in Ampuis – where the headquarters remain to this day – on the western banks of the Rhône river, a stone's ...
Details
- Region or Appellation
- Producer Notes
- This wine is of consistently high quality in all vintages. Connoisseurs will enjoy its classic expression of the Syrah grape variety combined with the Grenache grape. Vintage after vintage, the Collection wines have become symbols which perfectly illustrate the family’s ethos of supreme quality. Careful ageing, together with the meticulous attention paid every day by Marcel and Philippe Guigal to the selection and blending processes, bring to the fore the consistency and excellence of the great appellations of the Rhône Valley.
- Drinking Window
- 2019-2026
- Alcohol ABV
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13 - 14.5%
- Sweetness
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Dry
- Blend
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50% Syrah, 40% Grenache (Grenache) & 10% Mourvedre (Monastrell)
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Oak Type
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French
- Total Production Volume
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4000000 Bottles
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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Varied soil, sediment, limestone, granite. Pebbles and Alluvia. Average age of vines: 35 years.
- Winemaking
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Traditional winemakeing methods, temperature controlled fermentation. Long soaking on the skins.
- Ageing
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1 ½ years in oak foudres.
- Producer Tasting Notes
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Eye : Deep and dark red. Shiny. Nose : Fresh fruits with red berries and spices. Palate : Full, round and racy. Rounded and smooth tannins. A full-bodied, rich and intensly aromatic wine. Overall : Full with a long finish and plenty of elegance and finesse due to the well balanced tannins and fruit.
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About the Wine
Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Charcuterie et fromage Starter Course
- Dry-cured jambon de Bayonne, beech wood smoked Barbary duck, potted pork rillettes, Rosette de Lyon cured saucisson and Brittany Camembert baked with shallot & raisin chutney
- Contains: cheese
- Worldwide
- Spiral cut striploin steak Main Course
- Contains: strip loin
- Western
- Presa Iberico Main Course
- Acorn-fed Iberico pork shoulder
- Spanish
- Appenzeller Cheese Course
- Hard cow's-milk cheese
- Swiss
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(21)Compare vintages
Vintage quality: Excellent
Current condition: Ready to drink, will keep
The Rhône Valley enjoyed a brilliant 2016 vintage.
The winter was mild but morphed into an unusually cool spring, which made for a delayed budburst and flowering.
In the Northern Rhône, rain fell during May and early June raising the risk of mildew whic...
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