In Bond Fine Wine. 2020 Saint Cosme Gigondas Le Claux, Gigondas, Rhone, France. Red Rhone in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 98/100 (JRY). Drinking window: 2023–2043. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Jeb Dunnuck (JD) — 95–97/100 · JebDunnuck.com, 25/01/2022
The 2020 Gigondas Le Claux offers more cassis-like darker fruits intermixed with flowers, camphor, and graphite. It's full-bodied, elegant, and seamless, yet shows plenty of tannins on the finish. It's very much in the style of this pure, elegant vintage.
Josh Raynolds (JR) — 98/100 · Vinous, 19/01/2023 · Drink 2028-2038
Opaque red. Sharply defined red fruit, floral and Moroccan spice aromas, along with intense mineral, garrigue and cola nuances. Shows superb depth as well as vivacity on the palate, offering juicy red and blue fruit, floral pastille and spicecake flavors and an exotic hint of blood orange. Finishes impressively long and precise with firm tension, discreet tannins and reverberating red fruit and f…
Jeb Dunnuck (JD) — 96/100 · JebDunnuck.com, 16/03/2023 · Drink 2023-2043
Leading off the three single vineyards, the 2020 Gigondas Le Claux is all Grenache as always and comes from a site just down the hill from the estate. It has lots of savory red and black fruits, ground pepper, and dried garrigue nuances as well as medium to full-bodied richness on the palate. Polished, elegant, and finesse-driven, it shows the pure, balanced style of the vintage perfectly and is…