La Bastide St. Vincent

Laurent’s initial anxieties about relatively low levels of acidity in the Grenache have been dispelled over the élevage period. The Vacqueyras is certainly fresh and juicy – its fruit sourced from ten parcels and dominated by the 75 percent of tank-aged Grenache. Approachable and ripe, yet discretely structured, this works very well and can be drunk in relative youth. Drink 2018-2026.
Simon Field MW - Wine Buyer

Flanking the evocatively named Dentelles de Montmirail, with vines on the equally evocative Plateau des Garrigues, La Bastide Saint Vincent is a delightful, family-owned wine domaine with 17th century origins. The unassuming Laurent Daniel never overworks his fruit and his fruit repays him with interest; a very subtle producer of supple wines. Laurent was happy with both quality and quantity in 2015–a vintage which he compares, somewhat against the trend, to 2007.

Very well received in the restaurants of London and further afield, Laurent’s Gigondas does not sit at the tarry, rustic and tannic end of the spectrum. Its style is more inverse nostalgia, inclining towards an expression of dark cherry fruit, Asian spice, firm yet fine tannins and a generous mouth-feel. The 2015 excels in all of these areas. Drink 2019-2026. 
Simon Field MW-Wine Buyer

Flanking the evocatively named Dentelles de Montmirail, with vines on the equally evocative Plateau des Garrigues, La Bastide Saint Vincent is a delightful, family-owned wine domaine with 17th century origins. The unassuming Laurent Daniel never overworks his fruit and his fruit repays him with interest; a very subtle producer of supple wines. Laurent was happy with both quality and quantity in 2015 – a vintage which he compares, somewhat against the trend, to 2007.

Perfumed nose of marzipan and sweet liquorice. Seductive, svelte and soft on the palate, this is an absolutely moreish wine, very easy to drink and great alone or with white meat dishes.
Hamish Orr-Ewing, Private Account Manager

Crushed limestone soils, with alluvial fossils and loess make up the rather distinctive terroir surrounding the medieval village of Gigondas, long seem as the leader of the pack of villages that are no longer prepared to sit in the shadows of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The altitude of Gigondas is very much to its favour, especially as one tries to tame the worst excesses of high levels of alcohol. All somewhat paradoxical in a village famed for its heady and almost rustic wines. No so with this one; a blend of 75% Grenache, 15% Mourvèdre and 10% Syrah, the 2011 has attractive macerated plum and bouquet garni aromas and a pleasing shard of flinty acidity to underpin the concentrated dark fruit.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer

Grenache is a generous and indulgent variety; for Laurent Daniel in 2011 the main problem was to ensure that alcoholic and phenolic ripeness achieved some kind of coincidence, but without excessive levels of alcohol. The selection of the correct picking date is essential; only two things are worse than a cooked flavour in a wine and these are flavours which are green and flavours which attain the egregious distinction of being both cooked and green. Fortunately Laurent has avoided all the potential pit-falls and he describes 2011 as a stylistic marriage of 2007 and 2004.