Ex Voto Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich seafood dishes such as butter-poached lobster, classic French veal sweetbreads in a creamy wild mushroom sauce, or roasted Bresse chicken with morels.
✨ Technical Specifications
E. Guigal's Hermitage 'Ex Voto' Blanc is a monumental white wine born from the legendary, sun-drenched slopes of the Hermitage hill in the Northern Rhône. The name 'Ex Voto'—Latin for 'in fulfillment of a vow'—pays homage to the historical and spiritual heritage of the hill, famously crowned by the chapel of the 13th-century crusader knight Gaspard de Stérimberg. Produced only in exceptional vintages, this rare cuvée is crafted predominantly from ancient Marsanne vines (around 90%) blended with a touch of Roussanne, sourced from the prestigious, steep lieux-dits of Les Bessards, L'Hermite, Maison Blanche, and Le Méal. The wine undergoes an intensive vinification process, including fermentation and an astonishing 30 months of aging in 100% new French oak barrels. This meticulous craftsmanship yields an incredibly rich, powerful, and complex white wine defined by notes of honey, acacia, white peaches, toasted brioche, and a profound, stony minerality reflecting its granitic and limestone terroir.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1946 by Étienne Guigal in the historic village of Ampuis, Domaine E. Guigal is one of the most prestigious and defining estates in France's Rhône Valley. The family's legacy was further elevated under Marcel Guigal and his son Philippe, marked by the meticulous restoration of the Renaissance Château d'Ampuis and an uncompromising commitment to long oak aging through their own on-site cooperage. Renowned globally for setting the quality benchmark of Northern Rhône viticulture, Guigal is legendary for its peerless Syrah bottlings—particularly the iconic single-vineyard Côte-Rôtie 'La-La-Las' (La Mouline, La Landonne, and La Turque)—as well as opulent, aromatic Viognier expressions such as Condrieu La Doriane.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Marsanne, Roussanne