1990 M. Chapoutier Côte-Rôtie La Mordorée

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  12/26/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 95 Points

  This pours light garnet in the glass with light bricking. The nose is immediately expressive and complex only improving with air showing dried blueberry, dried cherry, thyme blossom, smoked meat, animal fur, cracked black pepper, dried lavender, decaying rose petals, perfume, smouldering fire pit, dill pickle brine, and diesel fuel. The palate is pure silk with bright blueberry and red tart fruit. Tannin is virtually gone while acid remains medium plus, almost high. The finish isn’t quite as long as you might expect from a top wine, but is still quite enjoyable. Really nice wine and a worthwhile rival to the amazing 1991. This wine is built on pure elegance, one of the most floral and red fruited mature Northern Rhones I've ever had.

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  9/4/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points

  On its way out, as the fruit is fading, still, there was more than enough cherries, smoke, earth, and crushed rock in the nose to make the perfume stand out. On the palate, the wine no longer offers its kick of acidity, it is soft, round, and polished with a red plum, cocoa, dried thyme, and cherry griotte finish. This is not a wine for further development, Drink from 2023-2027.

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  7/10/2022 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 95 Points

  Mon plus vieux Côte-Rôtie a ce jour.
  Nez envoûtant et totalement magnifique.
  Tout en finesse, florale, légère touche viandé, c'est délicat et le parfum nous explose au nez.
  En bouche, c'est sur le fruit mure, la touche florale est encore bien présente. On retrouve pas les arômes d'olive ou viandé typique a la région. Le style est beaucoup plus aérien et délicat par son acidité et ses tannins a point. d'un équilibre exemplaire, plusieurs était sur un vieux nebbiolo du nord de l'italie.
  Grand vin !

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  6/24/2020 - GFischmann wrote: 92 Points

  Has nice acidity, residual tannins with residual secondary flavors with tertiary notes with leather and wet earth.

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  12/16/2019 - galewskj wrote: 96 Points

  Democratic Wine Dinner (My house): Pop and pour. This wine was a rockstar. Dried herbs, spice mix, lots of tar, beef blood, cherry, blue fruit, cassis, brambly wet forest floor. What was cool was that you'd get a new smell or taste out of it every time. This was the best Chapoutier I've had, I'm still not sure they're worth the current asking prices, but this rocked.

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