From Aix-en-Provence: Half-day Sidecar Wine Tour
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Structure
Drinking window
Best 5 to 20 years from vintage.
vintage5 yrs20 yrs22 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: dried herbs, black cherry, black pepper, leather
Palate: plum, graphite, iron, Mediterranean salt
Single-vineyard pure Folle Noire from biodynamic old vines, named for Joseph Sergi's father Giovanni. The estate's flagship Bellet red.
What it pairs with
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Daube provencale
Long-braised beef with herbs and red wine meets the wine's leather and iron register. -
Wild boar civet
Game and the wine's tobacco-tinged Folle Noire are a long-standing Provencal pairing. -
Aged sheep's milk cheese
Tomme-style cheese frames the wine's firm tannin and dried-herb register.
History
Vino di Gio is the estate's prestige bottling and the rare 100 percent Folle Noire wine of the appellation. Aged for up to two years in old oak demi-muids, the wine is the most cellar-worthy red bottled from Bellet's tiny vineyard area.
- 1998: First release of Vino di Gio as the estate's single-vineyard Folle Noire
Facts
- Producer
- Clos Saint Vincent · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Folle Noire (100%)
- Classification
- Bellet AOC
- Oak
- Aged in old oak demi-muids for 18 to 24 months, no new oak
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- EUR 45 to 70 at retail
- Drinking window
- 5-20 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1998
- Biodynamic
- Biodynamic Practicing
- Organic
- ORGANIC CERTIFIED
Frequently asked about Clos Saint Vincent Vino di Gio
What does Clos Saint Vincent Vino di Gio taste like?
Dried herbs, black cherry, black pepper and leather on the nose; plum, graphite, iron and Mediterranean salt on the palate. Medium-bodied with firm tannins and a long savoury finish.
When should I drink Clos Saint Vincent Vino di Gio?
Drink between 5 and 20 years from vintage. The 24 months of old-oak ageing gives unusual cellar potential for a wine from such a small AOC; younger bottles need 60 to 90 minutes of decanting.
What grapes are in Clos Saint Vincent Vino di Gio?
Pure Folle Noire (Fuella Nera), the indigenous black grape of the Bellet AOC. Vino di Gio is one of the rare 100 percent Folle Noire bottlings in production.
What food pairs with Clos Saint Vincent Vino di Gio?
Daube provencale is the canonical pairing; the wine's leather and iron register meets the long-braised beef. Wild boar civet and aged sheep's milk cheese are equally strong matches.
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