1999 Rene Rostaing Côte-Rôtie Cuvée Classique

Community Tasting Notes (60) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  2/22/2024 - Ruminator Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Medium brownish garnet. Sediments. Bricking.
  
  Smoke, tobacco leaf, spice, forest floor, and mushroom. Mature blackberry fruit with fig, date note. Briny and meaty midpalate. Savory, earthy, herbal, peppery finish. Very long.
  
  This wine probably peaking right now. Wonderfully complex with a gamut of tertiary nuances, while retaining balance and intensity.

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  7/10/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points

  Rhône Tasting-cum-Lunch (Restaurant Rijsel, Amsterdam, NL): Structurally completely intact, warm spices and red meat, deep yet elegant, silky texture, mostly resolved tannins, showing a bit of wood, slightly drying but perfumed finish.

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  5/27/2022 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 91 Points

  WIMPS #153 Northern Rhône 27th May 2022 (La Trompette, Chiswick): My favourite of the Côtes Rôties. Lovely peppery, cinnaomon bark and star anise nose. There is something like a sliced steak and oodles of red fruits and a touch of smoke. Later some tea adds to the mix. The palate is rich and long. Superbly balanced and some further red and black fruits with fully resolved tannins.

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  12/25/2021 - aro Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Last bottle = best bottle. Smoky, bramble fruit. Restrained and with less oxidative, stewed notes than past bottles have shown. Very enjoyable.

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  7/17/2021 - SARED Does not like this wine: 90 Points

  Nice freshness with resolved structure and dark ripe fruit. Perceptible clear alcohol throughout the palate. 90-91

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