Domaine Gayda's ascendancy to wine legend is guaranteed for two reasons; firstly the vineyards they work with are among the very best in the Languedoc; and secondly the minimal interventionist approach to winemaking allows these vineyards to express themselves unfettered by chemical additives, over use of oak or over extraction.
The estate was founded 4 years ago by Anthony Record and Tim Ford, inspired by what they had seen at estates in South Africa. They brought in the young Vincent Chansault, who prepared for his wine career in the Loire Valley, and in addition to the French harvest has spent the last couple of years doubling up in South Africa. His youthful, yet meticulous approach to winemaking is ensuring the estates wines are the most talked about in the Languedoc
Such a rare wine in these parts and only 6000 bottles made. Hand picked and fermented in 2nd passage oak to broaden the ripe but not overstated peachy fruit and adding a delicious savoury spice.
Grenache Blanc, Marsanne and Rousanne blended after barrel ageing in barrique. The wine represents a reversion to traditional varietals and characters making this complex and deep wine a real ‘Vin de Terroir’.
Grenache Syrah and Cinsault blend made using the free run juice from the ‘La Liviniere’ fruit harvest.
Full, ‘garrigue’ infused nose packed with violets, plums, black fruit and exotic spice. Rounded off in oak barrique for 12 months leaving it complex and long on the finish.
A blend of Syrah, Mouvedre, Grenache, and Cinsault aged in Oak barriques for 12 months. The fruit is hand harvested from the ‘La Liviniere’ cru of Minervois and represents the terroir and style of this ancient wine producing area.
The current flagship of the Gayda estate and made from the very best and oldest vineyards in ‘La Liviniere’. Syrah and Grenache combine to make a dense, robust and complex wine that sings garrigue and black spicy fruit. The wine is named after the roman track that leads to the estate.
A pair of wines made for everyday consumption, bottled under screw-top in the colours of Carcasonne airport's windsock. The Sauvignon is full of passion fruit and summer fruit salad flavours and the Syrah is delimited fruit from the famous 'La Clape' region, offering amazingly pure syrah characters uninfluenced by the use of oak
This range of wines represents the estate wines that are made from low yielding vines often 70 or more years old. In the case of the Carignan, only 4 barrique were made from the 2001 vintage.