Domaine Saint Damien Gigondas Les Souteyrades 2022
£26.95
The wine
This full-bodied, layered and rich wine has intense flavours of warm fig, dark chocolate and spicy fruitcake. Complex and powerful, with fine-grained tannins and a deliciously long finish. Les Souteyrades is the domaine's single-vineyard Gigondas, from the highest and stoniest parcels beneath the Dentelles de Montmirail.
The producer
Domaine Saint Damien
View all Domaine Saint Damien winesSaint Damien was an early Christian martyr, put to death in 287 AD and regarded as the patron saint of doctors. A chapel was raised in his honour at La Baumette, the tiny hamlet just outside Gigondas where Joel Saurel lives, and in 1979 the name was adopted for the domaine.
Four generations have worked this family estate since 1821, and Romain Saurel joined his father in 2013. The domaine has been certified organic since 2012.The wines are old-vine Grenache of the traditional southern Rhône sort: generous, garrigue-scented and built to age, from Plan de Dieu up to the Gigondas cuvees.






