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Domaine Les Pallières Gigondas Les Racines

  • Red
  • France
  • Gigondas
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre
Tracked vintages
13
Community notes
330
Merchant offers
74

What we know about this wine

Critics
94/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
86/ 100330 notes, every vintage
Market price
£20per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
Drinking window
2026–2036drinking2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 143 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Southern Rhône Red.

Body3.9 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.5 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5
DrySweet
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, savory, mint, cinnamon
  • Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, black fruit, plum, cassis
  • Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, minerals, stone
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, strawberry, raspberry, cranberry
  • Oak · vanilla, tobacco, oak, chocolate, clove
  • Floral · lavender, violet, potpourri, hibiscus, lilac

Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£17–£31GBP per 75 cl · 5 priced vintages

2015One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2016
95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2019–2034
Lowest price
2016
£17 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Gigondas Les Racines monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£20£302020£202019£212018£312016£172015£24

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Gigondas Les Racines monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 6 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Gigondas Les Racines monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2020£2093.5Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
2019£2194Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
2018£3193.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
2016£1795Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018
2015£2492.3Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018

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