Critic Scores
This is brimming with dark plum, blueberry, raspberry and boysenberry fruit flavors, all moving seamlessly together while the finish picks up a fine inlay of anise, black tea and chalky minerality. Pure and very long. Best from 2019 through 2032. -James Molesworth, Wine Spectator
Coming from a small corner parcel of the La Colline vineyard, the utterly sensational 2015 Gigondas La Colline is primarily Grenache that includes a touch of whole clusters and is still aging in one- to three-year-old demi-muids. It possesses a huge nose of black raspberries, blackcurrants, toasted spice and garrigue in a stacked, full-bodied, concentrated, yet weightless style. Its certainly up with the top handful of wines in the vintage and should not be missed! Readers wanting to get a hold of the best of the 2015 vintage need to latch onto these wines from Domaine des Bosquets. This estate has been brought up to the pinnacle of Gigondas, and the Southern Rhne, by the talent and drive of the Brechet family, namely the young Julien Brechet, and consultant Philippe Cambie... The two special cuvees include the La Colline and the Le Lieu Dit, and these are individual, singular wines... A deeper, richer, more blockbuster-styled wine, the La Colline comes from a tiny portion of the La Colline vineyard (which is a larger parcel of rocky limestone soils) and is 100% Grenache thats aged in new and once used 600-liter barrels. -Jeb Dunnuck, Wine Advocate
