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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Wine Canuck on 1/22/2022 & rated 91 points: Tasting with old (and one new) friends (Kitchener, Ontario): This pours dark ruby in the glass with medium bricking. The nose is mature and low in complexity showing dark dried fruit, light elements of smoky firepit, slate, and old furniture. The palate is totally integrated with lush dark cherry fruit and medium minus tannin. A good wine in an enjoyable stage of it's development (in fact I wouldn't really age this much longer) but not exactly a top example of Cote Rotie, and certainly a far cry from the great 1991 La Mordoree. (1136 views) | | | Tasted by Vini Ciclismo on 5/22/2021 & rated 93 points: Medium to light red.
Fragrance of dark fruits, smoke, tar spice.
Sweet red berries, some dark seasoning of tar, licorice and smoke plus a little earth. Smooth, nicely balanced, good presence. (462 views) | | | Tasted by Andrewbdc on 1/28/2017 & rated 92 points: The wine is medium garnet in colour (fine but heavy sediment so needed decanting).
The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of baked dark fruit (bramble, black plum), spice (black pepper, cinnamon), floral note (blossom), oak (clove, smoke), dried fruit (fig, prune), tertiary development (leather, earth, mushroom, meat). The wine is fully developed,.
The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium fine velvety tannins, medium alcohol (12.5%), medium body, pronounced flavours of bramble, black pepper, clove, date, leather, earth. The finish is long.
The wine is outstanding quality with excellent concentration and complexity of flavours - mainly from tertiary and secondary clusters, balanced by a nice acidity with the tannins fully integrated. The finish is long and persistent.
The wine should be drunk now and is not suitable for further ageing. All the primary fruit is gone so further tertiary development is unlikely. However, there is no hurry to drink as it still has good concentration and nice structure.
First bottle of mixed case from the Vintners' Company hors-concours prize for WSET diploma prize. (1084 views) | | | Tasted by Vini Ciclismo on 6/30/2015 & rated 90 points: Deeply coloured, not quite black.
Smooth, dark, black fruits, light soy, hint of pepper, lovely deep fragrance.
Supple, fleshy, medium weight. Excellent acidity provides a long clean balanced finish. Pure black fruit and licorice flavours, hints of graphite, tar and some plummy prune. Not overwhelmingly complex however. Velvety with no hard edges, a delight. Still with good weight, by no means past its best. (1486 views) | | | Tasted by WinoRick on 11/16/2013 & rated 94 points: Silky and sweet with the classic bacon fat nose. Time to drink. Dinner with my friend Cork who claims I gave him this wine 15 years ago? (1747 views) | | | Tasted by Vini Ciclismo on 8/7/2012 & rated 89 points: Blue and black fruits, dried herbs, fleshy and rich, good weight and length. Still plenty of time left. (1810 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 12/2/2011 & rated 92 points: Colour shows its age. On the nose it is long and loaded with roast meat note and some earth. On the palate it is well round with tannins now fully integrated and silky. Lacks the depth and length of the higher cuvees but this is a very nice bottle and a very fine experience. Drink now, 92 (2141 views) | | | Tasted by OneLastSyrah on 10/2/2002: ($50) Sweet perfumey nose with rich leather, white pepper. Sweet red fruit. Very pleasant. Liked this quite a bit and was glad to see it showing well. Lively for a older wine. (1836 views) |
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- Read more about Chapoutier Hermitage wines - Discover Chapoutier Cote Rotie wine - Learn about Chapoutier Chateauneuf du Pape wineSyrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMESCôte-Rôtie Guide to Cote Rotie - Read about the Northern Rhone Valley
• The Appellation cover three communes - Saint-Cyr-sur-Rhône, Ampuis and Tupin-Semons - on the right Rhône river bank, within the Rhône "département".
• Soils : In the northern part of the vineyard, the Côte Brune, consists of extremely steep, terraced slopes of ferruginous mica schists which are covered with schist sand (arzel).The Côte Blonde has a varied geology with gneiss and granite predominating at the most southern side of the appellation.
• Climate : tempered continental. Dry, hot summers and frequent rainfalls during the other seasons. History : one of the oldest vineyards in France, first developed by the Romans. It is said that during the Middle Ages, "The Seigneur de Maugiron" bequeathed a hillside to each of his daughters, one was brunette and the other fair. Thus, were born the names of "Côte Brune" and "Côte Blonde".
• Area planted : 230 hectares (568 acres), for an annual production of 8,400 hectoliters (93,333 cases). Authorized maximum yield is 40 hectoliters/hectare (2,3 US tons/acre).
• Grape Varieties : Syrah (80% minimum). An addition of up to 20% of Viognier grapes in the crop is allowed.
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