During a Rhone North blind tasting dinner with pirates. Here we go, what a wonderful, elegant wine, full of aromatics of red fruit, game, dried meat, lots of smoke, old school Cote Rotie. Excellent balance and punchy acidity, well managed tannins. A real treat (12% Alc) and the antithesis of the heavy, oaky 2009 Guigal Chateau d'Ampuis tonight. Loved it. 96+
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This is an extraordinarily good bottle of traditionally-style Côte-Rôtie, soaring from the glass with a classic bouquet of wild red and black fruits, violets, roast squab and cocoa-like soil tones. On the palate, the wine is rich, deep and beautifully balanced with a elegantly firm core of refined tannins. 12% abv. I had no idea that Stephan's wines had become so good!
Prune,floral,poivre pas mal certain sur le Rhône-Nord....Menthol et bacon.. Très beau... après quelques 2011 de filé, je me dit que c'est quand même très bon en jeunesse le R-N !
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4/2/2020 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points
interesting wine and late in the evening - thought perhaps too young now - but lovely intensity and gamey notes. Blue fruits.
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5/30/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
During a Rhone North blind tasting dinner with pirates. Here we go, what a wonderful, elegant wine, full of aromatics of red fruit, game, dried meat, lots of smoke, old school Cote Rotie. Excellent balance and punchy acidity, well managed tannins. A real treat (12% Alc) and the antithesis of the heavy, oaky 2009 Guigal Chateau d'Ampuis tonight. Loved it. 96+
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1/18/2019 - Peech Likes this wine: 91 Points
pretty pungent nose, reductive, animal, leather, potpourri, and highly aromatic.
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1/23/2016 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is an extraordinarily good bottle of traditionally-style Côte-Rôtie, soaring from the glass with a classic bouquet of wild red and black fruits, violets, roast squab and cocoa-like soil tones. On the palate, the wine is rich, deep and beautifully balanced with a elegantly firm core of refined tannins. 12% abv. I had no idea that Stephan's wines had become so good!
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9/2/2014 - phil the agony wrote: 91 Points
Prune,floral,poivre pas mal certain sur le Rhône-Nord....Menthol et bacon..
Très beau... après quelques 2011 de filé, je me dit que c'est quand même très bon en jeunesse le R-N !
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