E. Guigal Gigondas 2015.

Bought during a supermarket wine fair in France for 15€ in September 2019. Very decent and very Grenache-y, and definitely tastes like a Gigondas.

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Le Pigeoulet 2017. I love this wine, made by the Bruniers of Vieux Télégraphe fame. It’s 80% Grenache with little bits of the other usual Rhone suspects thrown in and has a juicy, fresh, fruity feel.

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Saint Cosme Côtes-du-Rhône 2018. I mentioned this earlier as a great value wine (this one cost me 9€ from a shop in Lille.)

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Coudoulet de Beaucastel 2016. I was drinking this stuff when it was called Cru de Coudoulet some 40 years ago. Of course, renaming it led to it being known more widely as ‘baby Beaucastel’, which was probably the intention.

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Little James’ Basket Press, Saint Cosme. NV, as this is made via the Solera method, but ‘bottled 2021.’ I’m very fond of Louis Barruol’s wines, even if my experience so far has nearly all been of his négociant (ie non-Gigondas) wine.

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Vieille Julienne Trois Sources CdP 2011. I bought a bottle of this before my birthday when someone was offloading them in bond at £30.

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