Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 tuscany Costigliole d’Asti and Montegrosso d’Asti

Costigliole d’Asti and Montegrosso d’Asti

truffles and lavender

Following the “prise de mousse”

Loosen never harvests anything less than Auslese-level ripeness from this vineyard

Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 tuscany Costigliole d’Asti and Montegrosso d’AstiPierre 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,