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Marcel Guigal has long been renowned for his magnificent trio of single-vineyard Côte-Rôtie wines: La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque. La Mouline was the first, its debut vintage being 1966, just five years after he took the helm at the family domaine. It was followed by La Landonne in 1978 and La Turque in 1985. La Mouline was acquired in 1965, and as it was already planted with some very old vines, he was able to make the wine from 1966. The wine also attracted attention because it was aged in mostly new French oak, for 42 months. Such a method was almost unheard of in a region where Côte-Rôtie at that time was still aged mostly or entirely in large old casks (foudres) or even in chestnut barrels. La Mouline had been the property of the Dervieux family and was already a celebrated site before its purchase by Guigal. It also contained a proportion of Viognier, which was gradually increased to its present level of about 11%.
The vines at La Mouline are on average about 70 years old, although some plants from 1893 still survive. They are grown on soil within the sector of Côte-Rôtie known as the Côte Blonde. Here there is a higher limestone content than in most other sites, although the primary soil types are still gneiss and granite. The 1.5-hectare site is entirely owned by Guigal, unlike La Landonne which has a number of different owners. Guigal has always been a late harvester, aiming for maximum concentration, although never risking overripeness. But, with its southerly exposition in a kind of amphitheatre, La Mouline is a precocious vineyard, and its grapes are picked before most of Guigal’s other top sites.
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