Vignes de l'Hospice
⏳ Drinking Window
2015 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted rack of lamb, wild game dishes, or a rich beef stew.
✨ Technical Specifications
E. Guigal's Saint-Joseph 'Vignes de l'Hospice' is one of the crown jewels of the Northern Rhône. Perched on an incredibly steep, south-facing granite amphitheater overlooking the town of Tournon, this legendary vineyard was once owned by the local hospice before being acquired by the Guigal family in 2001. The sheer steepness of the slope requires painstaking manual labor, with ancient stone terraces holding the precious decomposed granite soils in place. Guigal treats this exceptional terroir with the same reverence as their famous Côte-Rôtie single-vineyard wines, aging the wine for approximately 30 months in 100% new French oak barrels crafted in their own cooperage. The result is an extraordinarily powerful, complex, and refined expression of Syrah, combining dark berry fruit, cracked black pepper, crushed stone minerality, and silky, seamless tannins.
🍾 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
100% Syrah
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13.5% - 14.5%