Gigondas, “Le Gour”

The sibling of “La Numero Huit” above, “Le Gour” employs similar methods—a long and gentle extraction, a high proportion of whole clusters, a year’s worth of aging in cement egg with minimal sulfur—with vines from a notably different terroir: 80-year-old Grenache planted in the Le Gour vineyard’s limestone-rich clay. “Le Gour” offers a minerality simultaneously refined and punchy, with lip-smacking tannins and a remarkable sense of acid-driven focus. Here again one feels Grenache’s capacity for finesse and precision; it is a wine of beautifully executed intentionality from young Paul Fumoso.