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
Established in 1946 by Étienne Guigal in the historic village of Ampuis, Maison Guigal has grown into an undisputed titan of the Rhône Valley, elevated to global renown under Marcel Guigal and currently guided by third-generation winemaker Philippe Guigal. Anchored at the restored 12th-century Château d'Ampuis, the estate oversees 75 hectares of prime northern Rhône vineyards alongside a benchmark négociant operation. The family's viticulture is practiced via sustainable lutte raisonnée across dramatically steep, hand-worked amphitheaters comprising mica-schist, granite, and loess terraces. In the cellar, Guigal is famous for uncompromising patient élevage, maturing premier cuvées in custom barrels produced at their in-house cooperage for up to 40 months. Their legendary single-vineyard Côte-Rôties—La Mouline, La Landonne, and La Turque—remain global pinnacles of Syrah, mirrored in white viticulture by the opulent Condrieu La Doriane and the monumental Ermitage Ex-Voto Blanc.
🍇 Grapes
100% Syrah
🍷 ABV
13.5% - 14.5%