2023 Wills Wine Côtes du Rhône, France Gaja VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée”

VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée” (reasoned organic)

The wine spent 12 months in 350L barrels aged between three and four years (no new wood)

’ an ode to bright golden Colombard fruit that ripens happily in the California heat

in approximately equal proportions

2023 Wills Wine Côtes du Rhône, France Gaja VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée”A returning cuve, first produced in 2020. Fruit was purchased from the same sites as before, one being Syrah (10yo) planted on a clay limestone terrace backing onto forest as the foothills of Seguret. The other site for the Grenache and Cinsault (60yo), a more classical southern terroir; on the flats below the Syrah. Galets rouls, with deep clay. Vinified whole bunch in a concrete tank. A low and slow ferment, with a gentle maceration. Ageing in 8yo