Domaine GillesL'Utim
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with L'Utim
Pairings that work perfectly with L'Utim
Original food and wine pairings with L'Utim
The L'Utim of Domaine Gilles matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, moroccan lamb shoulder or turkey paupiettes in poultry sauce.
Details and technical informations about Domaine Gilles's L'Utim.
Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre
Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of L'Utim from Domaine Gilles are 2016
Informations about the Domaine Gilles
The Domaine Gilles is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in the of Rhone Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rhone Valley
France's 2nd-largest AOC vineyard, two complementary worlds. Northern: pure Syrah in signature reds (Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, Cornas), deep and peppery with blackberry, violet, black olive and smoked bacon notes, exceptional ageing. Opulent Viognier whites (Condrieu, apricot, flowers) and ample Marsanne-Roussanne. Southern: sun-soaked Grenache blends at Châteauneuf, Gigondas, Vacqueyras (candied fruit, garrigue).
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
