2022 Gigondas L'Argnée Vieilles Vignes Famille Perrin - 6x75cl
10C2GAVV6PK _ 2022 - Gigondas L'Argnée Vieilles Vignes Famille Perrin - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Perrin et Fils
  • Region Gigondas
  • Drinking 2027 - 2034
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2022 - Gigondas L'Argnée Vieilles Vignes Famille Perrin - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Perrin et Fils
  • Region Gigondas
  • Drinking 2027 - 2034
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £240.00 In Bond
Please note: These wines are lying abroad until shipping and can only be purchased In Bond. If you are an existing Private Reserves customer, the wine will be automatically transferred on arrival. Otherwise, you will be contacted on arrival in the UK to arrange delivery, In Bond storage in Private Reserves or another bonded warehouse.
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  • Goedhuis, March 2024

    From the south-western end of the appellation, L'Argnée comes from a sandy, one-hectare vineyard of pre-phylloxera vines that are now over a century old! The old vines here produce miniscule yields due to their age and production is just 1,500 bottles. The team choose to whole bunch press and mature for 12-months in foudres for enhanced vineyard expression, allowing the terroir to shine through. We were unable to taste on our visit to Beaucastel as the wine was still in cask at the Gigondas cellar, but we have no doubt that it will be phenomenal – we have just 5 cases to offer.

Producer

Perrin et Fils

The Perrin family have been making wine in the Rhône Valley since 1909, when the great-grandfather of Jean-Pierre and François Perrin bought, originally as a weekend and summer retreat from the town, Château de Beaucastel in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. His son-in-law, Pierre, took on the running of the vineyard that was already there, but had become very overgrown, and Beaucastel is now one of the top estates in the Rhône Valley. In the seventies, Pierre's son, Jacques, with his son, Jean-Pierre, set up La Vieille Ferme, anégociant business selling a good value pair of wines from the Rhône Valley - bringing the expertise and attention to detail from sixty years of making top-of-the-range wine to slightly more humble appellations. Over the years, and with the addition of Jean-Pierre's sons, Marc, Pierre andThomas to the family business, this has grown into a range of ‘cru' wines that embody theindividuality and character of each of their appellation areas including Vinsobres and Gigondas. Château de Beaucastel is the flagship estate of the Perrin family, masters of the Southern Rhône. This family are a winemaking powerhouse, and admired for both the benchmark examples produced from across the Southern Rhône appellations as well as for the heights of Beaucastel itself. The Beaucastel vines are all in one large 110 hectare block at the northern end of the Châteauneuf du Pape appellation. The plot contains all the archetypal soil types of the region: sand, clay and limestone, with pudding stone pebbles on the surface. Their Coudoulet vines lie just beyond the northern boundary of the appellation and convey much of the typicity of a Châteauneuf in a more accessible format (and with the inclusion of varieties like Marsanne and Viognier not permitted within Châteauneuf itself). The estate famously grows all thirteen varieties historically permitted within the Châteauneuf appellation, with a high proportion of the late ripening Mourvèdre.

Region

Gigondas

An area for red and rosé wines Gigondas has been an appellation in its own right since 1971. Though they can occasionally be more rustic, the reds are often considered a miniature version of Châteauneuf du Pape. Part of this may have to do with the same limited yield restrictions and minimum alcoholic strength (12.5 %), but they also share some of the same varieties including Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. Certain bottlings can be approached shortly after release, but many benefit from several years of cellaring. Like Châteauneuf du Pâpe, aged bottles of Gigondas take on appealing gamey and forest floor aromatics which make them particularly enjoyable with roast meats.

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