Domaine Gayda Cepage Grenache Gris 2015

"Sélection Parcellaire combines a vintage, a terroir, a variety and a vineyard with ideas and trials in the winery in order to create the character and personality of the wine. Our laboratory of taste!

Following the success of the 2014 vintage and fulfilling popular demand we have decided to bottle a second vintage of this wine. Other experiments and trials are ongoing but this “cuvée” is likely to be a permanent feature of our Sélection range. Chosen for its originality, its exuberance and purity of fruit and characterised by its floral aromas, its roundness and minerality. A wine out of the ordinary, let it surprise you."

"Label distinctive if a bit difficult to make out. I have notes on the previous vintage (the second of this wine). It looks as though it was grown in three specific parcels and made in concrete eggs and demi muids, Picked 26 August 2016 and bottled 26 June 2017. Just 3,450 bottles filled.

"Very bright pale straw. Not the reductive tension of some of the most exciting Grenache Gris. This seems more tight citrus than anything with lurking richness. I'm sure it's very well intentioned but if someone told me it was Chenin Blanc I would not be remotely surprised. Maybe it will blossom and I am tasting it too young. At the moment it's just a bit (slightly) sweet and sour. Cooking apples.
16 / 20 points."
(Jancis Robinson, JR Purple Pages, August 2018)