Gigondas, "Le Poste", Chateau De Saint Cosme, Gigondas, FR, 2023

Professional Ratings

• 97 Jeb Dunnuck
  I think the standout in the lineup is the 2023 Gigondas Le Poste, which is all Grenache from a slightly higher elevation site just up the hill from the château. It has gorgeous darker, almost blue fruits as well as spring flowers, violets, pepper, and a beautiful sense of minerality. With medium to full-bodied richness, a pure, seamless mouthfeel, gorgeous tannins, and a great finish, it’s going to offer pleasure right out of the gate yet cruise over the following two decades in cold cellars. Don’t miss it.
  Range: 95-97+
• 96 Wine Enthusiast
  This wine commands attention from the moment it greets the nose, with an undeniable aromatic intensity that's both bold and inviting. It's serious, but it also possesses an inherent charm that makes it approachable in its youth. The nose bursts with the sweetness of perfectly ripe Anjou pear, delicate peach blossom, fresh lychee, and peonies, all layered with hints of rain-soaked earth and broken stones. On the palate, it's generous and lively, with a salinity that cuts through the richness, providing both refreshment and depth. This wine will evolve beautifully over the years—easily capable of aging through 2033+.
  Cellar Selection
• 95 James Suckling
  The pure velvet of this Gigondas beauty wraps itself around you so easily, but it is quite a task to wrap your mind around this great Gigondas. Notes of aniseed and 100% bitter chocolate make this stand out from the crowd. The dense fine-grained tannins build in the long and very complete finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  The 2023 Gigondas le Poste is superb, opening in the glass with aromas of violets, wild blackberry, licorice, garrigue and crushed rock. Medium- to full-bodied, deep and layered, it’s more taut and vertical than its siblings this year, and it's built around a spine of chalky tannins and bright acids that lend the wine precision and length. Despite its inherent power, it retains a sense of restraint and refinement, with a long, mineral-driven finish that speaks to the vineyard’s limestone soils. This is a serious, classically proportioned Le Poste that will reward a decade or more of cellaring. Raing: 95+

• 95 Wine Spectator

  Monster in scale and depth, with a brooding core of dark fruit, spices and incense wrapped around a spine of molten iron. Displays power and ripeness, with an attractive, savory contrast of smoke and a salty tobacco edge to its black currant. There’s a rush of cedar polish on the rock-solid finish, which shows impressive finesse for such a weighty frame. Give this time to fully reveal itself.