Côte-Rôtie La Mouline
⏳ wine.drinking_window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted duck, wild game bird, slow-cooked lamb shoulder
✨ wine.spec_sheet
La Mouline, situated in the heart of the Côte Blonde, is a legendary amphitheater-shaped vineyard whose history of viticulture stretches back over 2,400 years to Roman times. The name itself whispers of the past, derived from an ancient watermill that once stood nearby. The 2015 vintage represents a high-water mark for this historic parcel, benefiting from a historically warm and sunny growing season that yielded grapes of unprecedented concentration and structural power. Here, the Syrah is co-fermented with a significant portion of Viognier, a traditional practice that coaxes out an ethereal floral perfume and softens the dark, muscular fruit of the Syrah. Grown on steep, terraced slopes of gneiss, loess, and decomposed granite, the vines yield a wine of remarkable complexity. Following fermentation, the wine underwent its signature, painstaking maturation of 40 months in 100% new French oak barrels, resulting in a seamless integration of exotic spices, velvety tannins, and vibrant minerality.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Founded in 1946 by Étienne Guigal in the ancient village of Ampuis, Domaine E. Guigal has become one of the Rhône Valley's most illustrious and influential wine estates. Now managed by Marcel and Philippe Guigal, the family is headquartered at the historic Château d'Ampuis, where they craft legendary wines that define the northern and southern Rhône. The estate is globally renowned for its iconic Côte-Rôtie single-vineyard bottlings—La Mouline, La Turque, and La Landonne—as well as the opulent Condrieu La Doriane. Their uncompromising production philosophy emphasizes extremely long barrel aging in their custom, in-house cooperage, resulting in wines of extraordinary depth, structure, and longevity.