2020 Terroir Daronton Gigondas Rhone 750 ml

It’s well known among savvy red-wine lovers: If you want a cellar full of beautiful, ageworthy reds that significantly overperform for the price, invest deeply in Gigondas. 

And if you want a best-in-class expression that combines exquisite finesse with chiseled, dark berry fruit, pick up every bottle of the 2020 Terroir Daronton Gigondas you can fit in your cellar.

This release won a whopping 96 points from the Decanter World Wine Awards, topping 276 out of 285 Rhône reds, including dozens from the $$$$ appellation of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It’s a bombshell buy that validates the kinds of statements you might have read in the wine press lately, like Vinous’s declaration that “Gigondas delivers some of the best bang for [the] buck in cellar-worthy red wines from France today.”

Grown on premier vineyards in Grand Montmirail, Prébayon, and Col du Cayron, Terroir Daronton delivers intensity and power, freshness and tension—all for a deal that shows why Gigondas is the best friend of bargain seekers. DWWA judges called it “very full, rich and luxurious in style,” while Vinous deemed it “broad and seamless in texture, with appealingly sweet red and blue fruit.” We call it the kind of bottle to which Gigondas owes its ever-rising clout.

Here’s why Gigondas is a treasure trove of value: Warmer vintages are inducing greater concentration and plumpness in grapes whose austere tannins once had to be softened by longer barrel-aging. 

Open this bottle on arrival and you’ll taste all the brightness and energy of the Southern Rhône’s excellent 2020 growing season. A wine set up for at least a decade of further refinement, it’s a Gigondas that stands tall at the top of the vintage.