1991 M. Chapoutier Côte-Rôtie

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  1/22/2022 - Wine Canuck wrote: 91 Points

  Tasting with old (and one new) friends (Kitchener, Ontario): This pours dark ruby in the glass with medium bricking. The nose is mature and low in complexity showing dark dried fruit, light elements of smoky firepit, slate, and old furniture. The palate is totally integrated with lush dark cherry fruit and medium minus tannin. A good wine in an enjoyable stage of it's development (in fact I wouldn't really age this much longer) but not exactly a top example of Cote Rotie, and certainly a far cry from the great 1991 La Mordoree.

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  5/22/2021 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium to light red.
  Fragrance of dark fruits, smoke, tar spice.
  Sweet red berries, some dark seasoning of tar, licorice and smoke plus a little earth. Smooth, nicely balanced, good presence.

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  1/28/2017 - Andrewbdc wrote: 92 Points

  The wine is medium garnet in colour (fine but heavy sediment so needed decanting).
  The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of baked dark fruit (bramble, black plum), spice (black pepper, cinnamon), floral note (blossom), oak (clove, smoke), dried fruit (fig, prune), tertiary development (leather, earth, mushroom, meat). The wine is fully developed,.
  The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium fine velvety tannins, medium alcohol (12.5%), medium body, pronounced flavours of bramble, black pepper, clove, date, leather, earth. The finish is long.
  The wine is outstanding quality with excellent concentration and complexity of flavours - mainly from tertiary and secondary clusters, balanced by a nice acidity with the tannins fully integrated. The finish is long and persistent.
  The wine should be drunk now and is not suitable for further ageing. All the primary fruit is gone so further tertiary development is unlikely. However, there is no hurry to drink as it still has good concentration and nice structure.
  First bottle of mixed case from the Vintners' Company hors-concours prize for WSET diploma prize.

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  6/30/2015 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Deeply coloured, not quite black.
  Smooth, dark, black fruits, light soy, hint of pepper, lovely deep fragrance.
  Supple, fleshy, medium weight. Excellent acidity provides a long clean balanced finish. Pure black fruit and licorice flavours, hints of graphite, tar and some plummy prune. Not overwhelmingly complex however. Velvety with no hard edges, a delight. Still with good weight, by no means past its best.

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  11/16/2013 - WinoRick Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Silky and sweet with the classic bacon fat nose. Time to drink. Dinner with my friend Cork who claims I gave him this wine 15 years ago?

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