Santa Duc, Gigondas Hautes Garrigues other_regions The rich and nicely dense

The rich and nicely dense flavors possess a velvety and caressing mouth feel that exhibit a pretty minerality on the nicely balanced and impressively complex if not especially refined finish

This will require the better part of a decade to fully resolve the slightly rustic tannic spine

Bruno Giacosa passed away in early 2018 but his style and standards are being maintained by his daughter Bruna

it offers up a perfumed bouquet of sweet red and black raspberry-like fruit

There is a highly beguiling opulence to the textured

Santa Duc, Gigondas Hautes Garrigues other_regions The rich and nicely denseA gem in the vintage, the 2004 Gigondas Prestige des Hautes Garrigues offers mature notes of kirsch, black cherries, saddle leather, basil and spice in a rich, full bodied, slightly austere, serious and structured package. You can recognize the Mourvedre driven structure and tannic spine on the palate, and this full bodied beauty has more depth and concentration than most in the vintage. It will keep for another decade or more.