Georgia Conlin

9.7

Gaspard 2024… juicy apple, lemon, honey,light note of pineapple too! Medium to high acid. One of my fav chenins so far! — 4 months ago

K Brooks

9.2

Still wonderful with reheated leg of lamb, intense and flavorful ($39) — 10 months ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.4

Wow amazing new grower. The nephew of Emmanuel Brochet. — 3 years ago

Serge Mismetti

9.3

Le lion tome 4 — 3 years ago

with Thierry

Charlie C

9.1

Bright, clean red fruit — 5 years ago

Joe Sevier

9.1

Funk on the nose but very clean on the palate. Saline with honey, lychee, and sour lemon. Easy drinking, great with cheese. — 6 years ago

with Kenneth

Eric Egan

9.1

Another nice ‘70s Burgundy, blind. Pinned this to a ‘76 Volnay so ended the evening pretty well! Had completely forgotten that I had a few of these which made it even more satisfying. Really nice bottle, with an almost pencil-like nose with dense gamey notes, red cherries, and earthy rosepetals. Good length. — 8 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.1

Great Brut Nature — 4 months ago

Maya Rain

9.4

Very good! Light and fruity without too many tannins. Good for any season, nice with dinner. — 7 months ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.4

Nephew of Emmanuel Brochet making fantastic wines — 3 years ago

Alexandre Pagliano

9.0

A gift from friends.
Great stuff. — 3 years ago

with Jose, veronique and 1 other

Neal Ferry

9.0

Worked great with Spaghettini and clams — 4 years ago

with TwiLea

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

This is an insiders wine. You have study, focus and taste a lot wine to know how special this wine can drink. Especially, at its QPR.

There are a lot of people that covet SQN, Caycuse, Horsepower and No Girls. For my palate, these wines either burn the palate with ABV or choke off the fruit with way too much bacon fat and or deeply marinaded grilled meats. Yes, you are drinking expensive, flashy producers but, I would humbly disagree they are better wines than this 2011 Le Clos Du Caillou Vielles Vignes Cuvée Unique. Those other wines should aspire to be everything this 2011 shows and delivers.

This Le Clos Du Caillou has the balance the above wines lack and at a fraction of the price point. I would drink this 2011 over any of the other fore mentioned wines. While this Le Clos Du Caillou is a shade hot, it is not nearly as hot as SQN etc.. Hot ABV alcohol that burns the palate & back of the throat will forever be a fatal flaw in a wine.

The nose reveals, ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, blue & purple fruit mix, poached & back strawberries, black raspberries and both plums. Dark, sweet tarriness, dry, crushed rocks, steeped teas, anise stretching to black licorice, hint of dry herbs with bay leaf leading the way, dry brush, black, dry earth, savory, grilled meats, medium, dark spice, understated baking spices; clove, nutmeg, vanilla and a touch of clove, dark & mid red fruit cola, just a whiff of incense with candied, fresh and withering red & dark florals.

The body is rich and mid full. Tannins just 50% resolved with round, dark tarry teethiness. The structure, tension, length and balance are harmonious...just before their peak. Ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, blue & purple fruit mix, raspberries that haut the center palate on the long set, poached & back strawberries, black raspberries and both plums. Dark, sweet tarriness, dry, crushed rocks, limestone minerals, steeped teas, anise stretching to black licorice, hint of dry herbs with bay leaf leading the way, dry brush, dry black earth, dry stone wrapped in moist clay, savory, grilled meats, some bacon fat, medium, dark spice, understated baking spices; clove, nutmeg, vanilla and a touch of clove, Mix of caramel & mocha powder, dark & mid red fruit cola, just a whiff of incense with candied, fresh and withering red & dark florals. The acidity is phenomenal. The long, ripe, well balanced & textured, elegant finish is memorable and is persistent for several minutes.

Wine paired perfectly with our marinated Tri-tip.

If you are over paying for the above lesser wines mentioned above, you owe it to yourself to seek out and cellar this wine appropriately.

Photos of; Le Clos Du. Caillou, their barrel room, Owners-Sylvie Vacheron & Bruno Gaspard and one of their vineyards. It’s amazing they can grow anything in that stone soil structure.
— 7 years ago

Alexandre Pagliano

9.2

Extra brut rosé. Trying to find out details but Mr Brochet does Blanc de Noirs so we are guessing its a rosée de saignée as he only or mostly does Pinot Noir. Its round, elegant, great fruit, really dry and vinous enough for food but works great as a drink. We liked it a lot. — 5 months ago

with Jose, veronique and 1 other

Ginny DeLacey

9.2

Lovely! Spicy, peppery, cherry limeaid. Joe brought a bottle home from Geneva. Very good gift! — 2 years ago

with Joseph

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

8.9

This is the Syrah @Delectable Wine - this had it all but the 14.5% showed and never went away. — 3 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

Well, Delectable (predictably) ate the notes I submitted while they tried to identify this, so these are memory notes. The nose was rich and complex, with ripe fruit and wet clay earthiness. Full-flavored, ripe and minerally in the mouth. Great length for a Maconnais. Acids are medium, but the minerality adds some freshness. Very impressive. — 4 years ago

Jan-Willem van der Hek

9.6

89 galore! — 6 years ago

Ben Russell

10

Simple rose like you’d want to drink every morning — 8 years ago

Rajiv Srinath

9.3

First tine Bulgarian wine with Gaspard ... Excellent! — 8 years ago