2002 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Landonne

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  10/20/2023 - luizhagemann@gmail.com Likes this wine:

  Loosing its power. It’s not bad but should have been opened years ago.

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  12/26/2020 - acheng wrote: 91 Points

  Savoury, olive, graphite and meaty. Bright acidity but lacking in mid palate. Surprisingly really improved after a day and still going strong on second day.

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  6/3/2020 - Francophile1 Does not like this wine: 75 Points

  Oxidized! Ouch! I hate when that happens on an expensive bottle of wine. This wine was dead on arrival. Soy, charcoal, raisin, smoke. It wasn't so bad that I had to pour it down the drain, so I decided to run an experiment and then opened a bottle of 1994 Guigal La Landonne to taste them side by side. The 1994 was as fresh as a daisy confirming that the 2002 was a complete dud. I tasted the 2002 La Landonne back in 2017 during a LaLa horizontal and rated it 95 points. There is no way this wine had past its peak with just a few more years of age. Thankfully, I had the 1994 bottle with me to restore my faith in Guigal's LaLas.

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  8/16/2019 - ducrufan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  leicht gereifte Farbe. Hat keinerlei Guigal-Pfeffer in der Nase, erste Reife, Leder, Holz. Am Gaumen mittelgewichtig, den ganz großen Druck hat er nicht, auch nicht die Präzision großer Jahrgänge, der ist ein wenig diffus, hat einen Tick Säure im Finale. Ein schmackhafter Wein, für eine Guigal-Lage aber dann doch zu wenig. Habe ihn in der Blindprobe weder als Syrah und schon gar nicht als Guigal erkannt.

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  3/24/2019 - KPB wrote: 95 Points

  What a sensational wine! Every now and then you have this chance to try a genuinely great bottle... this was one of them.
  
  The 2002 is fully mature but can certainly hold at this level for a long time. Deep maroon in color, with a lovely limpid texture, the wine is stunningly aromatic. Dried cherries, brioche, melted licorice, garrigue are just a few of the more distinguishable aromas in a true potpourri, very complex and fascinating. Long and richly flavored, not at all overripe, with a primary palate centered on griotte cherry but all sorts of nuances, enrobed in velvety tannins and with just the right level of acidity.

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