Community Tasting Notes 44

• Papies wrote: 92 points

  September 19, 2021 - Opened and left to rest for a good hour. We felt it was fragile so we didn't decant but with hindsight this was wrong and should have have decanted.
  Quite dark in color still ( Nicol who had this blind went for 15yr Cote Rotie) soft smoky, light spice, well managed across and elegant for a 2002 and here it shows the quality of the wine maker who went for short maceration to avoid green tannins that plagued most of 2002s in northern Rhone. Silky on the edges and very solid but lacks the La Mouline wow side that we so much look for. We have 2 more bottled and we will let them rest for another 5-7 years minimum hopefully 10+. 92 - 93 for now.

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• NoTrollingerPlease wrote: 91 points

  January 22, 2021 - Online Blind Tasting #3 (Online): *** brief notes from online blind tasting ***
  Note is based on a tasting sip in the morning on day one, ~4cl on the evening and 0,1l filled in a bottle and sealed with argon gas on the evening of day three.
  Glass: Zalto Universal
  Clear deep garnet color with tawny/brown edges. Clean, medium intense, fully developed nose with some leather, spices, meat, tobacco and some green, harsh notes.
  Dry, high, quite well integrated acidity. 13% abv. Medium+, fine grained tannin. Fine red fruit, leather, meat, some green/harsh notes. Elegant, good balance, nice texture. Lacks the usual pressure, depth and tension of Mouline, but a very good effort for this very complicated year. I would say, that it has not much potential and will rather decline with time, so drink up now. 91

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• Wine_lvr wrote: 93 points

  July 12, 2020 - Still tight and needs to be decanted. Overall an excellent wine for a difficult vintage.

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• vinhonotte Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 14, 2020 - Fine Wines SG - Rhone Tasting Set (Delivered to Home): Deep ruby, and seems having a blackish tone, and slight edge fading. Nose that started off as slightly restrained and herbal, and then a good nuance of purple flowers and ripe blackberry, and nutmeg. Tannic, high alcohol, with a lot of pepper, and blackberry flavours, and heightened alcohol. Then some redcurrants and fern leaf emerge, along with clove and nutmeg spices. The redcurrant persisted onto the back, with a fairly long finish. Nice!

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• dbenglis Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 27, 2020 - Decanted for two hours. Pleasant and has age potential. Respect more negative swinging comments below but I would vote to pack 6 away and drink over next 10-20 years. I would argue a reasonable QPR given region and vineyard.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Mouline
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie
• UPC Codes 7070292727087, 790559111004

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• In Cellars 334 (64%)
• Consumed 184 (36%)

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