Château de Saint Cosme
Little James Basket Press Solera
$17.55
About this winery
In the heart of the appellation Gigondas, the Château de Saint Cosme is an exceptional estate, with its Gallo-Roman fermentation vats perfectly preserved. This fantastic historical site gives a good idea how our ancesters the gallo-romans were living. The property has been in our family since 1490 and we have been vignerons for 14 generations. We have 15 has of old vines (average 60 years old) with a yield of around 27Hos/Ha. The terroir is apparently homogeneous but it’s actually...
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Product notes
The small pleasure of the owner of the Domain. This multivintage wine (from 1999 to the present day) of Grenache (100%), comes every year to be completed with the new harvest. Little James manages to combine a great number of characteristics of the Grenache: softness, fruit, luminosity, complexity, brightness, and also a little power, length and structure, which are not without reminding a little his great elders of Gigondas and Châteauneuf, at a very reasonable price!
Production notes
Vinification and aging in concrete tanks. The Grenache Solera is enriched each year with the new vintage, bringing a new element to it without departing from its nature and its history.
Tasting notes
Robert Parker: "A pure Grenache, it presents itself as a strong and exuberant red. It is a real fruit bomb, dark ruby purple color, rich in raspberry, chocolate and blackcurrant, with silky tannins and a slightly evolved style due to the solera.