2010 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie La Chavaroche / La Péroline

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  5/2/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tom's Edinburgh Offline (Number One Balmoral): Dark red. Nose of stunning black fruit, with gamey meat, blood and olives. I prefer the nose to the palate by some distance. This is really dominated by olive tapenade and a wall of tannin then dulls the fruit, makes it take a back seat. Highly structured, it's tight even after decanting, and whilst not monolithic like Nebbiolo, it definitely needs more time to unfurl. I'm glad I have more - despite most Cote Rotie seeming to hit its stride between 10 and 15 years, this seems reticent and backwards still, and I think could do with another 5 years of cellaring. Will surely improve a great deal.

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  4/1/2024 - cfk49 wrote: 82 Points

  This wine is a prime example of how so much of one of France's greatest appellations is wasted -- there's Jamet, Barge, Vernay and maybe a couple of others worth drinking and that's it. I once thought Levet was in that group, which is why I cellared this wine, but this bottle proves otherwise. Even after being open a day, the wine is brutally tannic and the fruit has to struggle to get through. That's not old-style -- I know young Côte-Rôtie back in the 1970s and this ain't it. Cellared since original release.

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  3/2/2024 - Jkrench Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Deep dark cherry red, slightly beginning browning color. Beef stock, smoked lard, red berries. Beautiful developed aromas wafting from the glass, nuanced, developing time wise. On the palate an elegant Côte Rôtie unfolding with time, blueberries, suitably framed tannins, the palate mirroring the aromas coming from the glass.
  After some hours acidity comes a bit more to the fore.

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  2/4/2024 - EhrlichDY wrote: flawed

  Slightly corked.

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  3/16/2023 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine:

  Double blind from a small capped bottle. Others got to N Rhône Syrah and Cote Rotie. They were guessing lots of producers when I looked at it and smelled. This has that dark purple color and pure blueberry and gravel nose. I guessed Levet but this didn’t have the sauvage of Chavaroche so I guessed the Journieres or Amytheste.
  
  Day 2: olives up the wazoo. With a beautiful dark fruit and a dollop of cat piss. Last night this showed more pure fruit and less of the chav wildness but tonight it’s back in form. Granite and blueberry, spicy and meaty. Palate is med + with high acid. A bit of mocha. Palate is tight and still wound or it’s dried out a bit. Lovely olive and game towards end.

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