Michel Faraud - Gigondas Domaine du Cayron 2020

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"Vibrant cherry, raspberry and lavender aromas show excellent clarity and a spicy white pepper hint. Sweet and penetrating on the palate, it displays expansive red fruit and spicecake flavors with a subtle touch of candied licorice. Closes sappy and impressively long." Josh Raynolds

Michel Faraud Description

There is a sense of focus and implicity at Domaine du Cayron. "I make one wine," says Michel Faraud. There are no cuvees reserves, no declassified Cotes du Rhone, only Gigondas. Happily, Faraud's years of conservatism have paid off. His wine is one of the most loved Gigondas on the market.

One of his beliefs is to age his wine a couple of years in giant old oak foudres. So while other Gigondas producers are bottling and selling their current vintage, Faraud's wine still has another year to mature and develop. Michel's wife and three daughters, one of whom has a degree in viticulture and enology, all help in the vineyards.

Vinous: 96 Points

Dark magenta. Vibrant cherry, raspberry and lavender aromas show excellent clarity and a spicy white pepper hint. Sweet and penetrating on the palate, it displays expansive red fruit and spicecake flavors with a subtle touch of candied licorice. Closes sappy and impressively long, with resonating floral and red fruit notes and gentle tannins that build slowly. Josh Raynolds

Decanter

There are some airy cherry scents among the berry fruits here. Light-bodied, fresh and appealing, with reticent tannins and bright acidity which make for a well-balanced, easy-going, unforced wine that will give some Gigondas pleasure in the first few years after bottling and into the medium term.