Guy Louis
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb chops, grilled duck breast, earthy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Named in honor of Guy and Louis Jaboulet, who steered this historic Rhône house through much of the 20th century, the 'Guy Louis' Rouge is a premium Côtes-du-Rhône that showcases the estate's blending mastery. This cuvée bridges the Northern and Southern Rhône styles, combining the structural elegance and dark-fruit intensity of Syrah with the warm, fleshy red-fruit character of Grenache and the rustic depth of Mourvèdre. Sourced from select, low-yielding old vines, the wine undergoes traditional fermentation followed by aging in French oak barrels. The result is a sophisticated, terroir-driven wine that offers a glimpse into the legendary Jaboulet style at an accessible level, rich with notes of black pepper, wild herbs, and dark berries.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1834 by Antoine Jaboulet on the sun-drenched granite slopes of Tain-l'Hermitage, Maison Paul Jaboulet Aîné stands as one of the Rhône Valley's most storied viticultural estates. Acquired in 2006 by the Frey family, the domain experienced a profound renaissance under the stewardship of master oenologist and viticulturist Caroline Frey, who converted its extensive Northern Rhône holdings to certified organic viticulture alongside rigorous biodynamic regimens. While globally renowned for its legendary Hermitage reds like La Chapelle, the estate crafts equally sublime white wines from premier terroirs spanning Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Condrieu, and the Southern Rhône. Here, Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier, and Grenache Blanc are harvested at meticulous phenolic maturity from complex alluvial pebbles, loess, and fractured granitic soils. Vinified with gentle gravity flow, temperature-regulated fermentation, and judicious French oak contact on fine lees, Jaboulet whites—exemplified by Chevalier de Stérimberg, Domaine de Thalabert Mule Blanche, and Les Jalets Blanc—deliver exceptional minerality, textural waxiness, and refined age-worthy precision.
🍇 Grapes
Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre
🍷 ABV
13.5-14%