Guillaume Gilles farms the upper slopes of Chaillot, where Cornas gets complicated. Terraces of pure granite facing east-southeast, stitched together with other soils and exposures, and that patchwork is the whole argument for this being the domaine's grand wine. The 2020 Syrah reads granite-driven and serious, structure before charm, with the kind of mid-palate grip that rewards attention. This is Cornas with nothing softened for the audience.
Winemaker Notes
This is the grand wine of this tiny domaine. The vines are situation on the higher slopes of the Chaillot vineyard. The “terroir” is more complex here with a mixture of soil types and expositions. There are terraces of pure granite that are oriented east – southeast; then, these are supplemented by terraces that sit on a clay-limestone base that have a full southern exposure. The grapes are never destemmed, the cuvaison is long (30 days) and the élevage is in demi-muids for eighteen months. As with the other wines of the domaine, this wine is neither fined nor filtered.
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