Domaine des Bosquets Gigondas Les Roches 2020
Domaine des Bosquets Gigondas Les Roches 2020
"Glass-stainig ruby. Deeply pitched black raspberry, cherry-cola, cassis, olive and pungent floral qualities on the intensely perfumed, mineral- and spice-accented nose. Sappy and densely packed yet energetic as well, offering intense, smoke-laced kirch, dark berry preserve, mocha, licorice and candied violet flavors and a hint of salty olive tapenade. Shows superb clarity, repeating floral and spice notes and emphatic mineral lift on a youthfully, tannic finish that hangs on with superb, dark fruit-driven persistence. These vines are all Serine, originally from Domainr J.L. Chave, of Hermitage frame." Vinous
Les Roches is het nieuwste perceel van het Domaine, voor het eerst uitgebracht op aandringen van iedereen die het op vat geproefd heeft. Een massa oude syrah, aangeplant in een ultra-late rijpingszone: op de noordhelling, in de wind en in de schaduw van de helling. Gevinifieerd in open demi-muids van ontsteelde druiven, daarna puur gerijpt in 600L demi-muids van 1 en 2 wijnen gedurende 18 maanden. Soevereine frisheid, gekoppeld aan levendige minerale spanning en wild elegante florale tonen.
"Proprietor Julien Brechet is redefining Gigondas through his exploration of selections parcellaires, which are essentially monovarietal. Le Lieu Dit and La Colline are Grenache, Le Plateau is Mourvèdre and Les Routes is Syrah. The blended cuvée remains an assemblage of four varieties and represents an outstanding value. Brechet is pleased with the quality he's been able to achieve the past few vintages but says he's always striving to do better. On this visit, he poured a couple of older vintages so we could look at his progress, saying that he felt he'd made mistakes at times in the past. Of the La Colline, Brechet says, "Before it was impressive, now it's expressive." One of the keys to the quality he was able to achieve in 2018, he says, was the use of destemming, which he now varies considerably from year to year (in 2017, he used as much as 30% whole clusters). Brechet considers 2018 to be a year that favored Grenache, comparing it to 2006 and 2012. That said, I remain impressed by his Les Routes (Syrah), which has become one of the Southern Rhône's greatest examples of that variety—worth noting is that the genetic material is a sélection massale from Fonsalette, which is said to originate from cuttings provided by the Chave family. Equally impressive is the Châteauneuf-du-Pape Brechet bottles from a tiny patch of 100-year-old vines farmed for him by his brother Laurent (Château de Vaudieu). "The signature of the estate is the finesse," Brechet says." RP