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Domaine Santa Duc Gigondas Les Hautes Garrigues 2018 - First Bottle

Reviews

96 Jeb Dunnuck -
The flagship is 2018 Gigondas Les Hautes Garrigues and is another red from this estate that does everything right. Deep ruby/purple-colored with a brilliant bouquet of ripe wild strawberries, blueberries, ground pepper, garrigue, and new saddle leather, it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, flawless balance, and building yet seamless tannins. It’s certainly in the new style of this estate and is beautifully done. Enjoy bottles anytime over the coming two decades. The young yet obviously talented Benjamin Gras continues to make an elegant, beautifully balanced style of wine from this benchmark estate in Gigondas, which now also produces a handful of terrific Châteauneuf du Pape. He’s made the most of the 2018 vintage, and these are impressive wines.
96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
A 50-50 blend of Grenache and Mourvèdre this vintage, the 2018 Gigondas Les Hautes Garrigues is more open and approachable than the somewhat dense and closed 2017. Floral hints of garrigue appear on the nose, and the fruit is less concentrated and suppler
95 Decanter -
This is a profound wine – a very lithe, full, flowing style, quite nakedly fruity. The acidity is a little on the low side and it’s currently pretty backward but harbouring some subtle floral and spice notes among the brooding black fruits. The Mourvèdre has a strong stamp on the wine this year. It’s very long and deep with a sonorous finish. From very old vines, biodynamically-grown on red clay and limestone, partly destemmed which then spends 18 months in recent 3,600l Stockinger barrels and 8,00l amphorae. Drinking Window 2025 - 2034.
93 Wine Spectator -
Solidly built, with a juicy and youthfully compact core of blackberry and black cherry fruit that should unwind in due time, along with a range of anise, violet, iron and lavender notes that fill in throughout. Finish is long and refined. Best from 2021 through 2033.

Technical Details

  • Blend50% Grenache & 50% Mourvedre
  • WinemakerBenjamin Gras
  • CountryFrance
  • RegionRhone Valley
  • AppellationGigondas
  • VineyardLes Hautes Garrigues
  • Farming MethodOrganic & Biodynamic
  • Aging/Cooperage18 months in 36 hectoliter oak stockinger foudres and 8 hectoliter terracotta amphorae
  • Alcohol14.5%
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Domaine Santa Duc Gigondas Les Hautes Garrigues 2018

Proprietary Blends  |  France
JD96, WA96, D95, WS93

$60.00 $54.95 | 750mL
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With Domaine Santa Duc’s world-class Gigondas scoring 96 and the CdP 97, can this brilliant producer reach much higher? Both wines are under $60, and we bought as many as we could -- just landed from France! A few notes: we’re going to say it -- the Gigondas is one of the finest sources of value for profound wine in the Rhone. Santa Duc delivers wines that compete with the very best wines in Chateauneuf-du-Pape (and similar scores!) at a fraction of the price of many competitors. Santa Duc manages to make CdP AND Gigondas taste aristocratic -- taming the wild mountain personality of the Dentelles into something that is at once both intensely powerful, and also nuanced and complex.

We have exactly 15 cases (that in itself is miraculous!), and they will bowl you over with their purity and intensity, whether you drink them sooner or later! First come, first served!

About the Producer

Rising as a pillar of quality out of the soils of Gigondas is Domaine Santa Duc, an estate that's history stretches back to 1874. Through six generations, the caretakers of the domaine have demonstrated a respect for the land, with Santa Duc ascending to prominence as a pioneer of organic viticulture in the region under the care of its indomitable vigneron, Yves Gras. The wines cultivated by Gras typify classic Gigondas - elegant, focused, polished. In his 32 years at the helm, Gras has branched out to nearby Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Rasteau, creating wines of exceptional balance and quality. Gras seamlessly integrates fruit born from two distinct soil types into harmonious cuvees that are representative of the unique terroir of the Southern Rhone Valley. In working only with indigenous yeasts and bottling without filtration, Gras executes with a simplicity that leads to purity of expression in his wines.