1998 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie La Chavaroche / La Péroline

Community Tasting Notes (20) Median Score: 92 points

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  5/9/2019 - beatles wrote: 93 Points

  This is certainly the Cornas-lovers Côtie-Rotie, dry, chalky, firm and a bit rough still, but beneath this gnuff exterior lies a very good, classic, vertical wine, Old World indeed. Gets better in the glass, will get better with age. From PB (who else?)
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  3/5/2018 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points

  Tasting Northern Rhones with the Vingerons (Heirloom Cafe): The bouquet offers a clear message, a broad midnight soundstage. The flavors have great range and symmetry but are a little more rocky and are bound to catch up/ smooth out. 2020-2024

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  10/24/2017 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  Wild stuff, closer to Cornas than en elegant Côte-Rôtie, a local wine indeed, stony, masculin, unforgiving - but this is certainly getting better. #PB

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  10/24/2017 - pbaek wrote:

  This continue to be a wild, rustic wine that one in a blind tasting would probably rather guess to be a Cornas than a Cote-Rotie. There's distinct marks of stone behind the dusty, wild fruit and notes of dark olives and tobacco. Airy on the palate with floral notes as well, this is now more elegant compared to a few years ago. A very distinct wine, I love this stuff. Impromptu night with Niels at home.

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  2/9/2016 - Hodby wrote: 91 Points

  Medium garnet-red color. High pitched aromas: garrigue, fresh hay and smoke of burned twigs and leaves, cherry, balsamic vinegar. On arrival, medium acidity, medium tannin. There's dried cherries - singed almost - right in front, with olive brine, herbs, grasses powerfully behind. This is good stuff. The bottle is clean and would have no doubt lasted many more years well stored, unopened. Bottle #2 of two.

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