2020 Guillaume Gilles “Les Peyrouses” Vin de FranceHailing from the flats just to the east of the Cornas appellation proper, Les Peyrouses is a remarkable and unique wine: pure Syrah planted in the 1870s, during phylloxeras initial outbreak, and constituting the very first grafted vines in the area. The soil is a mix of sand and clay, with loads of large limestone galets, and the wine Guillaume coaxes from these astonishingly old vines is so powerful in its fruit that he gives it twelve months lvage