Cote Rotie, La Turque

Specification

Producer

E. Guigal

Region

Rest of world

Where

Ampuis, Northern Rhône

Classification

Côte-Rôtie AOC

Grapes

Syrah, Viognier

Vintage

2012

Case

6 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

GUIGAL126X75-3

About this wine

La Turque, on the Côte Brune, was the third of Guigal's single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, first made with the 1985 vintage. Syrah with a small proportion of Viognier, aged for about three and a half years in new oak, it balances the perfume of La Mouline with the power of La Landonne: rich, velvety and dark-fruited, with the structure to age for decades.

About E. Guigal

E. Guigal was founded in 1946 in Ampuis, at the foot of the Côte-Rôtie slopes, by Étienne Guigal, and has since been run by his son Marcel and grandson Philippe. From modest beginnings it has become the leading house of the northern Rhône, making wines across the Rhône Valley as both grower and négociant.

Its reputation rests above all on three single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque, known together as the 'La Las'. Made in small quantities and aged for around three and a half years in new oak, they are among the most collected wines of France.