Paul Jaboulet Aîné Gigondas Pierre Aiguille (2017)

Beautiful ruby red color, the nose id powerful, fine and reveals notes of black fruits (blackberries, blueberries) enhanced with spicy and toasted notes. With a surprising texture, this wine is balanced with a beautiful freshness, nice tannins, a fine intensity and a very elegant aromatic persistence.

Blend: 80% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah

Reviews

92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Another solid négociant effort, the 2017 Gigondas Pierre Aiguille combines hints of Mexican chocolate and red raspberries in a full-bodied, silky-textured wine. It's ripe yet chewy, with attractive hints of orange zest and licorice on the long finish. It's 80% Grenache, with 10% each Mourvèdre and Syrah.

92 Wine Enthusiast
Plummy cassis and black-cherry flavors are rich and rounded in this open-knit blend of 80% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah sourced from stony red-clay terraces. It’s concentrated in fruit but seductively earthen too, offering hints of dusty mineral, smoke and peppery spice. The long finish is marked by ripe, fine-tipped tannins. At peak now–2027.

90 Jeb Dunnuck
This Northern Rhône powerhouse domaine has turned out a structured, age-worthy 2017 Gigondas Pierre Aiguille. Based largely on Grenache aged in French oak vats, its darker ruby color is followed by classic, old-school notes of blackberries, black cherries, ground herbs, and earthy aromas and flavors. With medium-bodied richness and depth, building tannins, and a solid frame, it needs 2-3 years of bottle age and will keep for upwards of a decade.
Rating: 90+

90 Vinous
Deep, bright ruby. Spice-accented cherry, dark berries and pungent flowers on the nose. Supple and open-knit, offering juicy blackberry and bitter cherry flavors and a hint of vanilla on the back half. Round, even tannins frame a long, smoky finish that leaves a subtly sweet cherry note behind.