Community Tasting Note

vulgar little monkey wrote:

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - The first time that I opened a bottle of the 2009 CRB Côt for my GF she liked it, but didn't get the big deal, "it's OK, not great". We were at a bustling restaurant drinking from bistro glasses so I decided to drop another bottle on her. This time I decanted it and only had the decanter on the table. The wine is deeply pitched and dark but not brooding. Strong dark pitted fruit with some sort of tree bark and forest thing laced with pungent minerals and dark earth. Enveloping. Strong but not fierce tannin demand food. Interestingly, grilled bread smeared with Humbolt Fog cheese and just roasted peppers makes the tannin melt and the fruit come right to the front. Drinking this wine makes me sentimental and nostalgic for lots of reasons. For the last vintage of the Côt from these 120 year old vines, which this certainly is, for the retirement of Didier and Catherine, such wonderful, dynamic, intelligent, humble vignerons, and most importantly for two dear friends that I miss very much. The CRB wines, and this wine in particular, are life affirming.

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