2020 Chateau Pegau Cuvee Maclura Cotes du Rhone [JS92]

Producer: Chateau Pegau Region: Cotes du Rhone, Rhone, France Blend: 60% Grenache, 25%, Syrah, 10% Mourvedre, 5% Cinsault Year: 2020     Retail Price: $25.00 Our Price: $14.99*  The history of Chateau Pegau starts with Domaine Pegau.  Domaine Pegau is owned by a father and daughter team, Paul and Laurence Feraud.  The family has been growing vines in France since 1670.  Pegau is one of the greatest estates in the Chateauneuf du Pape and considered a benchmark producer of the region.  Pegau is justifiably ranked among the greatest wines in the world.  In 2012, the Chateauneuf du Pape icons bought a property just a few miles from they make their benchmark wines and named it Chateau Pegau.  The property sits in the prime spot in the Cotes du Rhone.  The wines are emphatically not Chateauneuf du Pape, nor are they priced that way.  However, the yields have been kept to the absurdly low limits permitted in Chateauneuf and the wines have all the density of that great appellation.  Chateau Pe