Condrieu is one of the most exotic and distinctive wines in the world with its intense aromatics and flavors of apricots white peach and citrus and its luscious almost umami body. It happens to come from a dramatically steep area and one so small that were it not for several influential people Marcel Guigal among them the appellation and its Viognier grape would have been swallowed by history._x000D_
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Fresh and round on the palate you feel the fat the richness yet the wine is so intensely dry with remarkable minerality. A harmony between freshness and fleshy roundness.
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