2013 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie La Chavaroche / La Péroline

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  3/24/2024 - Dale M wrote:

  Decanted 2 hrs. Not much development since my last bottle in 2018. Re reading that note, it very much echos last night wine. Really dominated by Jungle Juice insect repellent aka a very strong musky presence, huge tannins, lots of feral character etc. In short, a big zero in the way of conceding anything that would be considered modern, which is great, but I think I would have liked just a touch more fruit or perhaps even wood (did I just type that?) to round things off a bit. But this was very enjoyable in a intellectual capacity, and I'll let my last two bottles sleep a decade.

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  3/17/2024 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Not as nice as the last bottle I had, at the same event last year. This had a lot of black pepper, but the feral, animal qualities of this wine were a little too overwhelming. You sort of lost track of the red fruit here, especially with all the dense structure too.

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  2/24/2024 - nywine68 wrote: 91 Points

  Initially a bit tight, lean and unexpressive. Took on more weight with time in the glass. Acidity in the foreground with tar and loam and dark brambly fruit. Tannins are a bit dry. Decent complexity. Medium finish.

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  1/30/2024 - GrapeScott wrote: 93 Points

  Very typical to the Levet style, which is to say, this shows more similarity to Cornas than Cote Rotie. Burly, gamey and a bit feral, with black fruits, olive tapenade, smoked meat and iron notes. The tannins are still quite raw, and this probably should have been decanted. I expect this to improve over the next 5-10 years.

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  12/5/2023 - Grape_ape Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Classic olive aromas, bacon fat. Drinking nicely, but still quite youthful and has plenty of life. I will save my last bottle for a few more years at least.

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