Tasting Notes

WA96–100

A candidate for perfection is the 2010 Gigondas Hominis Fides. This is 100% Grenache from sandy and limestone soils that, like the other single-vineyard cuvees, is aged in small barrels (30% new, 40% one-year and 30% two to three years old). Inky purple, with an exquisite nose of spring flowers intermixed with smoky barbecue notes, creme de cassis, blackberry liqueur, and kirsch, the incredible floral fireworks continue in the mouth of this full-bodied, deep wine that overloads the olfactory senses as well as the tastebuds. This deep, striking, exhilarating wine is one of the greatest Gigondas I have ever tasted. Give it 4-5 years of cellaring and drink it over the following two decades. Range: 96-100

WS97

Dense and packed, with bittersweet chocolate and espresso notes leading the way for a huge core of blueberry, blackberry and black currant fruit, all melded together and pumping through the graphite-filled finish. The fruit is almost ostentatious now, but the grip is there, buried on the finish, and this will easily cruise for some time in the cellar. Best from 2015 through 2032.

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