Friday 22 July 2016

France – Chateau Peigros Croix Haute des Schistes Rouge 2013

Domaine and vineyard
The Château de Peigros was born, as wine company, in 1988, one of the youngest in the Pierrefeu area in the heart of the golden triangle of the wines of Provence. The breakthrough comes in 2010 when the family Ghigo, already owner of the Château Vert in La Londe des Maures, always in Provence, bought the property and attached to it further 10 hectares of vineyards and began a major restructuring that touched both the vineyard itself, with choices of varieties to grow, both the winery and the same production philosophy, with the transition, ongoing, to organic farming.
The company covers an area of 25 ha of vineyards.
Of these, 15 hectares are on clay and sandy soil. limestone (those historically belonging to the Château Peigros) therefore able to provide water and nourishment to continue screws but also good drainage; from this parcel it get the baseline of the company;
The remaining 10 ha (the parcel acquired in 2010), however, are on the side of a hill, on a stratified rock (shale) in which the vines are forced to bring down their roots deep in search of food; this particular terroir gives concentrated grapes; from this parcel derives the cuvée, called La Croix Haute des Schistes.

The wine
The Chateau des Peigros Croix Haute Schistes Rouge 2013 is a blend of syrah and grenache in equal parts. As already mentioned this wine is the cuvée of the company and is produced in limited edition (in the order of 1500 bottles. I had the 611)
After the harvest, carried by hand, the grapes are brought to the wine cellar partially de-stemmed before going into vats for fermentation


Tasting Note
Date
29 June 2016


Wine name
CROIX HAUTE DES SCHISTES
Vintage
2013
Nation
France
Region
Provence
AOC-DOC
Cotes de Provence Pierrefeu
Grape Varieties
50 % Syrah
50 % Grenache
Serving temperature
16-18° C
Alcohol
14
Price (in euro)
25
SO2 (in mg/l)
Nd




Visual Examination
Taste analysis
Limpidity
Limpid
Body
Full
Color
Garnet with blue shades
Balance
Balanced
Consistency
Consistent
Soft sensations
Warm, Soft
Effervescence
//
Hard sensations
Quite Tannic – Quiet Tasty


Flavors intensity
Intense
Olfactory analysis
Flavours
Red Berries, Cassis, Liquorice,
Aroma intensity
Intense

Pepper
Complexity
Complex
Finish/Persistence
Persistent
Quality
Fine
Overall evaluations
Aromas
Red fruits, Wild Strawberries,
Development
Ready

Cloves, Hay Dry, Burnt
Harmony
Harmonious
 

Food and wine pairings

The wine is recommended in combination with dishes of duck, white meat in sauce or hard cheeses aged (mimolette or Cantal).




I walked into the Ghigo family boutique to buy white wine for a gift and see this cuvee, aesthetically appealing and limited edition has really intrigued me. The first bottle: heavy, thick glass, with original label and cured and the capsule wax for a product that wants to be noticed.
Opening, from the bottle exhale scents of spices, hay, burned; in the glass we find a deep color garnet nectar, with bluish and a bouquet of complex aromas and wide. The wine is consistent, persistent, with a pleasant taste and aromas of red fruits, pepper and liquorice; the tannins are smooth. A wine made to stand out ... and that, in the enormous commercial offer of international grapes, he succeeds.


Official website: www.vignobles-ghigo.fr