Guigal

Guigal, formally Établissements Guigal, is one of the Rhône Valley’s defining producers, based in the historic village of Ampuis in the northern Rhône. The estate was founded in 1946 by Étienne Guigal, who had arrived in Ampuis as a teenager in the 1920s and went on to vinify dozens of Côte-Rôtie vintages. His son Marcel took over in 1961 and, together with his wife Bernadette and later their son Philippe, transformed the small family firm into a benchmark domaine and négociant, acquiring properties such as Vidal F…