All the components of this wine were fermented separately and blended together prior to bottling
It's aged in 80 year-old bota with 12 months under velo de flor
Clairette and a teeny portion of Piquepoul and Bourboulenc into a wine ready for your drinking pleasure
Pale gold in colour and well-balanced on the palate showing crisp acidity and fine mousse
the wine requires decades to develop
Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 Size::6 Bottle Case All the components of thisPierre Gaillard's top Condrieu comes from a single hectare of vines on a steep, sandy, granitic slope of Malleval (just south of Condrieu). In 2022, the vines here yielded just 30 hl ha of pungent, tenderloin Viognier fruit, and the wine spent eight months in Allier and Nevers oak, of which just 5% was new. It is early days, but it already hints at the tell tale characteristics of a top Gaillard Viognier: small white flowers, fragrant peach blossom,