La Turque
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Typically best enjoyed 10 to 35 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted venison, wild boar stew, truffled beef tenderloin
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La Turque is one of E. Guigal's legendary 'La La' wines, representing the pinnacle of Côte-Rôtie. Sourced from a tiny, steep, south-facing parcel of just under one hectare on the Côte Brune, this vineyard was historically owned by the Vidal family before being acquired and revitalized by the Guigals, with its maiden vintage debuting in 1985. The terroir consists of iron-rich schist and clay soils, which impart a formidable structure and dark-fruited intensity to the wine. Uniquely, La Turque is co-fermented with a small percentage of Viognier, adding an exotic, floral lift to the powerful Syrah. The wine undergoes an incredibly rigorous aging regimen of 42 months in 100% new French oak barrels crafted in the estate's private cooperage. This painstaking process yields a wine of monumental complexity, seamlessly blending the muscular power of La Landonne with the seductive, aromatic elegance of La Mouline.
🍾 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.