Due to an autumn and a winter soft and dry and a rainy April, vines growth start earlier. Summer was relatively dry and warm (with cool nights in August facilitating

It was the coldest winter for these last 15 years, with a pluviometric deficit which was not compensated in spring. July was very warm and August rather cold with some

For Gigondas, 2005 was warm, but without the heat of 2003. It differs especially by the absence of rainfall throughout the vegetative cycle. The alternation of warm during days and