Awards, Ratings & Reviews
99/100 — Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider · 2018 Vintage
Tasted: Jun 2025
“Dark in color, the wine opens with spicy, sharp red fruits, smoke, herbs, and an oceanic influence on the nose. It takes just the first sip to grasp the greatness of this wine. Full-bodied, powerful, intense, balanced, and lively on the palate, you feel the weight while sensing the energy as its layers of fruit coat your palate and linger. The wine captivates your attention for over 60 seconds. This is clearly a wow vintage for Guigal La Turque. The wine blends 7% Viognier along with 93% Syrah. Drink from 2032-2055.”
97/100 — CellarTracker · 2018 Vintage
95/100 — Christer Byklum · 2018 Vintage
Tasted: Aug 2023
“Ruby. Served blind. Dark fruits, anise, spices, liquorice, richer nose, nuanced. Some eucalyptus. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, blackberries, anise, dark fruits, firm, long finish.”
About This Wine
Côte-Rôtie "La Turque" is one of the flagship of the Domaine GUIGAL. A powerful wine with spicy notes, its terroirs from côte brune with “blond accents” lends it a great elegance.
Silicone limestone with schistes producing clay soil rich in iron oxyde. Average age of vines: 25 years.
Thermoregulated stainless steel tanks. Automated punching down. Alcoholic fermentation/ 4 week maceration.
42 months in new oak.
Producer Notes
Eye : Deep ruby red with dark tints. Nose : Small red fruit, blackberry, morello cherry Intensely aromatic, powerful and elegant.
Palate : Supple attack with a balanced supple structure, concentration and elegant tannins. Fully expressive of the terroir.
Overall : With all the virility of the Côte Brune, La Turque also has all the subtlety and femininity of the Côte Blonde.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2018
- Grape Variety: Syrah – Viognier
- Region: Cote Rotie / Rhone / France
- Fermentation: Thermoregulated stainless steel tanks; automated punching down; 4 week maceration
- Maturation: 42 months in new French oak
- Production Attributes: Oaked
- Alcohol: 13.5–14.5%
- Sweetness: Dry
- Vineyard / Geo info: Silicone limestone with schistes producing clay soil rich in iron oxyde; average vine age 25 years
- Closure: Cork
- Drinking Window: 2025–2045
