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

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

in approximately equal proportions

400 ft elevation• Hand-harvested• Fermented in cement vats and stainless-steel tanks• After about two weeks on skins

partially de-stemmed and foottrodden in open vats

farmed with low-input methods and picked by hand

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