Community Tasting Note

• TheBusiness724 wrote: 94 points

  September 25, 2011 - It has been awhile since I drank a wine that basically grabbed me and screamed in my face, "I am from Cote Rotie!" This did. It had that roasted meatiness to it, that savory, leathery, smokey facet to it. It quite literally brought the words Cote Rotie to mind. There was a mild suggestion of licorice, and also of olive, if you paid attention. Not really much fruit though, although I don't care. Why would you want fruit when the wine tastes like this? I suppose one could argue that for a second the wine feels just a little hollow on the mid-palate without the fruit, but it also feels intentional in a way, or at least it feels like the wine is just being honest. I like honesty.

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