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Pic St-Loup: 10 names to know

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Guilhem Viau is one of Pic St-Loup’s most talented winemakers, working with 15ha of vines in Lauret and Valflaunès, the heartland of the zone. He quickly grasped, as many of the Pic’s avant-garde have since done, that too much small-oak ageing can suffocate the magnificently scented Syrah notes that are possible here; all of his cuvées marry aromatic finesse with fine textures and sumptuous fruit.

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