E. Guigal Viognier Cotes du Rhone French White Wine

This wine's grape is Viognier. Grape guides note that Viognier can carry more body than many crisp white varieties. In our September 2026 checks, the price came in at $18.99.

Wine guides describe Viognier as an aromatic grape that can carry more body than many crisp white varieties, whether it is bottled alone or blended with other whites. Those guides link it to peach, apricot and floral notes, usually with moderate acid and a rounded texture, and add that harvest timing and oak can push the finished wine toward fresher or broader.

We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle. The high we saw in those same checks was $21.99. This wine's name places it in the Rhône Valley too, a French wine region where the south's stronger Mediterranean and Mistral influence sets it apart from the areas further north along the river corridor, guides note, and where Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages and named crus each carry their own boundaries and rules.

By its own account, E. Guigal was established in 1946 in Ampuis, France, in the Rhône Valley, and Côte-Rôtie is among the appellations it produces; that is a fact about the company, not about this particular bottle.

Guigal's own technical sheet narrows the picture further: the bottle listed here as a Viognier is, by the producer's account, its Côtes du Rhône White, a blend of six white grapes led by 60 percent Viognier, with Roussanne, Marsanne, Clairette, Bourboulenc and Grenache blanc making up the rest; the producer's own copy notes that "connoisseurs will recognise the dominant presence of Viognier." The blend comes from vines averaging 25 years old on varied soil, sediment, limestone and granite, ferments at low, controlled temperatures, and ages in stainless steel rather than oak. The producer's own tasting note calls the finished wine yellow gold, fruity with richness and body, and names white flowers, apricot and white peach among its aromas.

Our call: a fair pick if what you want is Guigal's Côtes du Rhône White, a Viognier-led blend from a producer founded in 1946 whose family name still runs the house; the six-grape composition and stainless-steel aging are documented plainly on the maker's own tech sheet. Pass if you're shopping specifically for a single-varietal Viognier: this label reads Viognier, but the producer's own account confirms it is a blend, 60 percent Viognier and five other white grapes, not a single-grape wine.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.