Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 tuscany Complimentary flinty and smoky notes

Complimentary flinty and smoky notes linger in the background providing a complex balance to the primary fruit

chalky clay over a subsoil of limestone

Pair this wine with Moroccan lamb stew

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Domaine Pierre Gaillard Condrieu Blanc L'Octroi 2022 tuscany Complimentary flinty and smoky notesPierre 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,