2007 Châteauneuf-du-Pape
$71 (2022)
France
Châteauneuf Du Pape
Northern Rhône
Red
70% Grenache, 15% Mourvèdre, 10% Syrah, 5% Other Permitted Varieties (2022 vintage)
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2007
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Perhaps as a consequence of their stature in the northern Rhône, Guigal's consistently excellent bottlings from the south don't get the attention that they deserve. The Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which is sourced as pre-malo juice from as many as 50 different producers, is made in a steadfastly traditional fashion, with three weeks of maceration in tanks followed by three years of aging in large oak foudres before bottling. In many vintages, the Guigals then opt to hold the wine for a period of time, even a couple of years, before releasing it. The Guigal Châteauneuf represents excellent value, and while is tends to be pretty delicious on release (no doubt due to the extended barrel-aging), it has also proven that it can age gracefully.
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Perhaps as a consequence of their stature in the northern Rhône, Guigal's consistently excellent bottlings from the south don't get the attention that they deserve. The Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which is sourced as pre-malo juice from as many as 50 different producers, is made in a steadfastly traditional fashion, with three weeks of maceration in tanks followed by three years of aging in large oak foudres before bottling. In many vintages, the Guigals then opt to hold the wine for a period of time, even a couple of years, before releasing it. The Guigal Châteauneuf represents excellent value, and while is tends to be pretty delicious on release (no doubt due to the extended barrel-aging), it has also proven that it can age gracefully.
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Perhaps as a consequence of their stature in the northern Rhône, Guigal's consistently excellent bottlings from the south don't get the attention that they deserve. The Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which is sourced as pre-malo juice from as many as 50 different producers, is made in a steadfastly traditional fashion, with three weeks of maceration in tanks followed by three years of aging in large oak foudres before bottling. In many vintages, the Guigals then opt to hold the wine for a period of time, even a couple of years, before releasing it. The Guigal Châteauneuf represents excellent value, and while is tends to be pretty delicious on release (no doubt due to the extended barrel-aging), it has also proven that it can age gracefully.
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Perhaps as a consequence of their stature in the northern Rhône, Guigal's consistently excellent bottlings from the south don't get the attention that they deserve. The Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which is sourced as pre-malo juice from as many as 50 different producers, is made in a steadfastly traditional fashion, with three weeks of maceration in tanks followed by three years of aging in large oak foudres before bottling. In many vintages, the Guigals then opt to hold the wine for a period of time, even a couple of years, before releasing it. The Guigal Châteauneuf represents excellent value, and while is tends to be pretty delicious on release (no doubt due to the extended barrel-aging), it has also proven that it can age gracefully.
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This is the current release for this bottling, since it's standard procedure for the Guigals to release it five or six years after the vintage. Philippe Guigal told me that the intent here "is to age the wine in the traditional, slow style and not hurry the bottling," which may give immediately appealing fruit but "allows some complexity to be built into the wine before it’s bottled and creates a longer drinking window."
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Philippe Guigal told me that he and his father Marcel have been working on the blend of their Châteauneuf in recent years in an attempt to "control the superripe character and elevated alcohol" that have characterized some recent vintages. That means working with growers who don't try "to push their vines to get the highest sugars possible and who are also "intelligent with their canopies and harvest times. Châteauneuf will always be exotic and voluptuous," he went on, "but our style is of elegance and we're trying to get a balance of those qualities."
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The Guigals were so unimpressed by the quality of the fruit they were offered from the southern Rhone in 2008 that they decided not to make any red wines from this region, Philippe Guigal told me. "The fruit was simply too fragile," said Guigal, "and we weren't confident that it would stand up to our type of elevage, which we like to extend." This means that there will be no 2008 red Cotes du Rhone for the first time since 1992. Guigal is impressed by the "flexibility" of 2007. "The fruit is up front, there's enough acidity to give the wines the balance for aging, yet the tannins are soft enough that they can be drunk young." Guigal told me that he is liking 2006 more and more "because the wines are very spicy and floral, and have real integrity, balance and precision. They aren't powerful like the '05s, but they'll live a long time on their balance. People forget that elegant wines can often outlive the big guys." The just-bottled 2006 Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde wasn't in a state for tasting when I visited Guigal at the beginning of November so I will report on this wine next year.
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The big news at Guigal this year was the recent acquisition of a half hectare of vines in Condrieu's prized Chery vineyard. In the 2008 vintage this fruit will go into Guigal's La Doriane bottling, and Philippe Guigal believes it will add an extra dimension of finesse to the wine. On the subject of reds, Guigal describes 2007 as "a rich, generous vintage that will be approachable young but has the depth and balance to age. " He added that the 2005s will need at least as much time as the 1978s. "I can't imagine them giving much pleasure before they are at least a decade old. " The 2006s, he reiterated, "will be long-lived, which might surprise people who are seduced by all their fruit right now. " The grapes for this estate's red wines have only been completely destemmed once, in 2002, which no doubt contributes to their complex, intensely spicy bouquets. Incidentally, 2004 was the first vintage in which the Guigals used only their own house-made barriques. (Ex-Cellars Wine Agencies, Solvang, CA) Also recommended: 2007 Cotes du Rhone Blanc (87), 2007 Cotes du Rhone Rose (86), 2007 Tavel Rose (87).
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Finishing touches were being made to Guigal's massive new cuverie on the route nationale, across the street from the original facility, when I visited in November. With a stainless-steel tank capacity of 25,700 hectoliters and a cellar that's literally the size of an American football field, the Guigals have realized their dream of having all of their wines under their own watch in Ampuis. I might have to bring a bicycle next year to get around the cellar. White wines are a very big deal here:Guigal makes almost 45% of all Condrieu, and Philippe Guigal is very high on the 2005 vintage. "The wines are more crisp, more mineral and more floral than the 2004s," he told me, "and 2004 is an outstanding vintage. "I also tasted samples of the 2005 single-site Cote-Roties and they are, predictably, to die for; Guigal did not present the '04s as he felt they were in a particularly awkward stage of their evolution in barrel.
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Philippe Guigal provided stark evidence of thex000D difficulty of the 2002 harvest for Rhone Valley growers. Because of the rain and thex000D possibility of quickly spreading rot we moved up our harvest dates three orx000D four times, then picked everything in an amazingly short window," he toldx000D me. All of the Guigals' Cote-Rotiex000D fruit was in by September 20, even the grapes destined for the family's fabledx000D La-La wines. Fruit sugars reached 11.5%x000D for syrah, according to Philippe, but 13.8% for the Condrieu Doriane. There was much less rot in thex000D viognier vines, even in the same parcels as syrah," he added. Guigal fans will not want to miss thex000D house's sensational 1999 Cote-Rotie special cuvees, which will be shipped inx000D late winter.
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Marcel Guigal, the locomotive of the Northern Rhone Valley, has added another couple of cars to his train with the purchase of the Jean-Louis Grippat domain and the house of de Vallouit, both deals consummated in 2001. Following the permission granted by authorities to use the lieu-dit Saint-Joseph to distinguish the wine made from Grippat's prime holding at the original heart of the appellation, Guigal will offer no fewer than three red Saint-Joseph bottlings beginning with vintage '99. Guigal also picked up Hermitage vines through both purchases; previously he owned no vines in this appellation. Also beginning with the '99 vintage, there will be a negociant bottling of Crozes-Hermitage, made entirely from hillside fruit. My meeting this year with Marcel's son Philippe climaxed, as always, with a barrel tasting of three vintages of Guigal's fabled Cote-Roties La Mouline, La Turque and La Landonne, always a highlight of my annual Rhone Valley tour.
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According to Philippe Guigal, the fruit in Cote-Rotie ripened ahead of Hermitage in '99, an infrequent occurrence that may have had something to do with the timing and extent of late summer rains. As a result, the harvest generally started later in Hermitage, and some growers were affected by a soaking rainstorm on September 25. Guigal Cote-Rotie crus from this vintage, however, were picked at glorious levels of ripeness. Though still more than two years short of bottling, they are some of the most exciting unfinished red wines I've ever tasted. Another standout of my annual tasting chez Guigal was the 1998 Hermitage; I sampled the major components of this unfinished wine and came away convinced that it would be Guigal's strongest Hermitage since the great '90.
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The Guigals recently completed yet another major expansion of their winemaking facility and with the purchase of some state-of-the-art bottling equipment can now produce magnums for the first time. Still, said Philippe Guigal, they will be extremely hesitant to make magnums of La Mouline, La Landonne or La Turque, as demand for these bottles already far exceeds their supply. The Guigals, who tend to release wines later than most of their Rhone Valley colleagues and usually bring out new vintages in October, had just released several '96s from major appellations (Hermitage, Cote-Rotie, Chateauneuf du Pape and Gigondas). While these wines were distinctly higher in acidity and more tightly wrapped than most of the '97s and '98s I was tasting on my recent trip, they were consistently stylish and aromatically intriguing. The '96 cru bottlings, still in barrel in November, boast richness that transcends this rather "northern" vintage, thanks to late harvesting that lasted until the middle of October.
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Following the construction of a huge new winemaking facility in 1993, Marcel Guigal quickly found that he was once again running out of space-not just for barrel storage but for bottling and labeling wines fast enough to keep up with worldwide demand for his wines. So Guigal is building yet another facility adjacent to the new one. On my recent visit, I tasted at length with Guigal son Philippe, who recently joined his father full-time following the completion of his wine studies and several stages in Bordeaux, California and Australia. Guigal's habit of late harvesting has clearly worked to his favor in '96 and '97; his cru bottlings of Cote-Rotie will be at the top of their respective vintages (even if the '96s were difficult to taste in early December).
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Following the construction of a huge new winemaking facility in 1993, Marcel Guigal quickly found that he was once again running out of space-not just for barrel storage but for bottling and labeling wines fast enough to keep up with worldwide demand for his wines. So Guigal is building yet another facility adjacent to the new one. On my recent visit, I tasted at length with Guigal son Philippe, who recently joined his father full-time following the completion of his wine studies and several stages in Bordeaux, California and Australia. Guigal's habit of late harvesting has clearly worked to his favor in '96 and '97; his cru bottlings of Cote-Rotie will be at the top of their respective vintages (even if the '96s were difficult to taste in early December).
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