Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 muscadelle with notes of sage

with notes of sage

Alcohol: 12%

The wood is crisp

A nose suggesting sticky

François arrests the primary fermentation when the wine has between 14 and 16 g/L of residual sugar

Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 muscadelle with notes of sagePierre Gaillard's top Condrieu comes from a single hectare of vines on a steep, sandy, granitic slope of Malleval (just south of Condrieu). In 2022, the vines here yielded just 30 hl ha of pungent, tenderloin Viognier fruit, and the wine spent eight months in Allier and Nevers oak, of which just 5% was new. It is early days, but it already hints at the tell tale characteristics of a top Gaillard Viognier: small white flowers, fragrant peach blossom,