2004 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Mouline

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  3/10/2024 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep red in color. Nice nose of red fruit, some pepper, graphite, and licorice. Extremely fresh palate with the oak complementing the rich profile. Delicious.

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  2/29/2024 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 96 Points

  A bottle I contributed during a trip to Napa’s Premiere Napa Valley week. This was opened at Torc, alongside a ‘97 Leflaive Les Pucelles, ‘11 Leroy Blagny, ‘89 La Chappelle and two young Napa cabs from Simon Estate.
  
  Deserving of a 1-2hr decant, this got about an hour open in bottle by the time we got to it. I opened the ‘04 La Turque just a few weeks prior, so I had a reference point to work with. Heady aromatics, as expected…dark potpurri, spice, mesquite and mocha. On the palate, the youthful bacon-fat of Cote Rotie was gone and had channeled the classical tangy barbecue profile alongside black olive, peppered red and black berry fruit, and smoked meat at the finish. Whereas the LaTurque was almost Burgundian in profile (elegant, light), this was somewhere in-between the “bigger” LaLandonne and LaTurque…big, but balanced, likely due to vintage. Aromatics and finish here were standouts. Open now with a quick decant or hold another few years.

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  1/1/2024 - levicn wrote: 93 Points

  开瓶试酒，混浊的中宝石红色，闻香有草本的青味，橄榄，肉鲜，黑李子，草莓，话梅混合着泥土气息，还有充分融合的香料感，木质和香草气息，香气很集中。入口酸度高，酒液咸，收口回甜，单宁颗粒质感很棒，成熟而又细腻，酒的集中度很高，如浓缩果汁一般，草本，李子，醋栗，泥土，还有胡椒气息，果味鲜活，充满力量，余味是木质香调和香草味，法桶的影响很明显，喝上去不太像一支接近二十年的酒，没有丝毫的老态，很强健，果实感觉很新鲜，酒液有些粘稠，虽然刚刚开瓶，还可以进一步醒酒，但余味已经李子香气爆棚。随着醒酒时间的增加，青味变得更加明显些，能感受到一些酸李子和醋栗的香气，酸度持续坚挺，单宁始终很紧涩，颗粒细腻如粉，草本，橄榄混合着香草奶油和融合香料的味道。三个多小时以后还能捕捉到一些果梗的植物气息，入口多了一些果糖的甜美和些许熏肉的气息，风格更加愉悦。总的来说虽然已经可以饮用，但还没有进入适饮巅峰期，表现虽然很平衡，状态始终有点紧，但仍然可以感受到它的高质量水准，一款经典法式风格的结构宏大的酒。

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  9/12/2023 - Topper wrote: 96 Points

  Did not disappoint. Full of flavor (black & red fruit, smoke, licorice, bacon) but not at all heavy or cloying. Floats like a butterfly, and packs a light punch, but doesn’t sting.

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  6/10/2023 - A&C Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I have not had a lot of LaLa's in my life, and this is the oldest LaLa I've been able to sample. Pure smooth blueberries. Integrated. Still lots of life left in this wine. Simply delicious!! I didn't want to stop drinking it, so the end of the evening (this was the 4th wine) is a bit blurry. C'est la vie!!

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