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Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Clovis Saurel 2016 (Magnum 1.5L)  - First Bottle

Reviews

98 Jeb Dunnuck -
Made from 100% Grenache brought up all in demi-muids, the 2016 Gigondas Clovis Saurel is deeply colored and offers an extraordinary bouquet of kirsch liqueur, strawberries, garrigue, crushed flowers, and exotic spices. It's ripe, sexy, opulent and powerful, yet graceful and elegant, with no hard edges, and brilliant tannins. It’s a big step up from the 2015 (which is a great wine in its own right) and is one of the true gems in the vintage. Don’t miss it!
96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
This year, aging in new demi-muids has been magical for the 2016 Gigondas Clovis Saurel. It still shows floral and tea-like complexity and waves of ripe stone fruit, chocolate and licorice but supplements those elements with hints of oak-derived structure. It's full-bodied and creamy textured, rich and concentrated, with a finish that's firm and muscular yet velvety and elegant at the same time. Wow! Tasted twice, with consistent notes.
93 Wine Enthusiast -
Anise and black pepper lend spice and fire to gorgeous black cherry and plum flavors in this supple red. It's a potent yet plush, generous wine framed by yielding acidity and a subtly earthen finish. Lovely already but should improve through 2028.
93 Vinous -
Deep, brilliant crimson. Highly perfumed black raspberry and cherry preserve scents are accompanied by suggestions of candied licorice, lavender, vanilla and exotic spices. Sappy and broad on the palate, showing seamless texture and offering deeply concentrated bitter cherry, boysenberry, cola and fruitcake flavors that become sweeter with air. Hangs on with superb tenacity on the spice-tinged finish, which features polished tannins and resonating cherry-vanilla and floral pastille notes. (all new demi-muids)

Technical Details

  • Blend100% Grenache
  • WinemakerJoel Saurel
  • CountryFrance
  • RegionRhone
  • AppellationGigondas
  • VineyardClovis Saurel
  • Farming MethodOrganic
  • Alcohol15%

Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Clovis Saurel 2016 (Magnum 1.5L)

Rhone Blends  |  France
JD98, WA96, WE93, VN93

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About the Producer

"Four generations of winegrowers have worked family vineyards since 1821. Owing much of its expansion to Clovis SAUREL, the vineyard was renamed “Saint Damien” in 1979, reminding us that an old chapel used to stand near the wine cellars, today long vanished. Joel SAUREL is the youngest of 7 children in a great family of winegrowers : he was raised amongst the scents of soil and an ancestral know-how that combines both tradition and new farming technologies. Saurel is deeply attached to the land, believing that soil is the only true master of a wine, and has thus followed the principles of Integrated Farming production since 1996. The soil is kept alive through careful ploughing and organic fertilizers; everything is sought to bring forth the natural qualities of the soil. In our fifty-year-old vineyard, yields are voluntarily limited. Furthermore, several years after conducting experiments, we have organized parcels according to soil type."