2016 Christophe Billon Côte-Rôtie Les Elotins

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  11/11/2022 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep dark purple with no clear rim visible even after 6 years perhaps indicating minimal or even no filtration. Heady floral nose underpinned with meat and blood. Juicy palate - black fruit with a nice green stalky undertow. Saline. Softening tannins provide a long finish with a nice acidity around the edges. Very impressive wine - 2 bottles left and I would love to drink them all now but this wine has years left on this tasting so maybe some patience is required!

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  11/2/2022 - gbejjani Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Idéale pour un dîner de copains. Tout à fait prête à être dégustée malgré son jeune âge. Fruits noirs et poivre fin, cuir et graphite, toutes les composantes sont à l’appel. D’une versatilité qui convient très bien à la cuisine Italienne!
  
  Visionnez la vidéo ci-dessous SVP
  
  https://youtu.be/ujK2vaHhf1g

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  12/7/2021 - gbejjani Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A very good sampler of Côte Rôtie flavors and aromas. Delicious now but has what it takes to age and mellow nicely.
  
  For more please watch below at YT channel Pandewine
  
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  11/16/2021 - Rob Hansult Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Very deep ruby with a touch of magenta
  Nose > Still somewhat shy & tight after almost a day of air, but starting to open as it warms up a bit, & starting to give some gorgeously deep, rich, intense, spectacular Syrah fruit.
  Purple, red/wild-red, blue, choke & black fruit, in that order atm.
  Morello & Schaerbeek cherry coulis, wineberry, pomegranate, purple black & red raspberry, violet, lavender, lilac, sealing wax & smoky black olive tapenade with a hint of creosote.
  Exciting; so much going on.
  At the same time tremendously rich, sappy & fresh, with great minerality.
  Very elegant , refined & pretty.
  Very deep, intense & complex; keeps drawing your nose back into the glass.
  Palate > Very tight still, but lots stuffed in there. Sappy & tightly held.
  Red & choke cherry, pomegranate, smoky/sappy cherry bark, loganberry with smoked sage & a touch of clove.
  Big, quite grippy, slightly chalky tannins marry with intense fruit; sappy/salty, rich/tight, pungent mineralized red & choke cherry, & carry the fruit into the spicy, smoky finish/aftertaste & add a hint of rhubarb.
  Feels like big stem inclusion.
  Not surprisingly shows quite linear & clenched in the mouth (even for this Baby-Killer!) ... but the stuff is in there.
  The nose is (with lots of air & coaxing) already spectacular & to die for, but the palate needs time, & plenty of it for normal humans to enjoy drinking.
  Put a 1/2 bottle in the fridge; will see where this puppy's at on day 3 ...

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  11/15/2021 - CLDWLL wrote:

  Let it rest. Palate is tight tight tight!

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