2004 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Brune et Blonde

Community Tasting Notes (62) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  12/24/2022 - shugmo Likes this wine:

  Last bottle, cork in good shape. Slightly faded from last note 6 years ago, fruits and tannins less prominent, but still a freshness and useful acidity here. Just what you would hope to find from a well-aged bottle of Cote-Rotie opened to accompany some Christmas Eve food.

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  8/17/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 92 Points

  Medium ruby core, light garnet towards the edges. Cherry, blueberry, soy sauce, cigar box, spices, black pepper, hints of vanilla and clove, and slate-like minerality, with great acidity, mostly resolved tannin, and superb length. Well-balanced, with a smooth, creamy texture. In a good place. Drink now.

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  1/11/2020 - JVG wrote:

  Guigal Brune et Blonde
  Medium garnet—the color of dried blood. Subtle and nuanced on the nose, with lots of developed notes: cigar box, cedar, dried flowers, old leather, smoke, pine forest, underbrush, and just a hint of soy sauce and rare charred meat. Plus a dusting of clove and cinnamon. Not much on the nose in the way of fruit. Wow, an absolute stunner on the palate. Lighter body than expected—barely what I would call medium. Extremely silky texture as the tannins have mostly melted away, leaving just an extremely fine grained coating. All of those great aged characteristics from the nose—it’s simultaneously savory, herbal, smoky, and spicy, but perfectly clean, with some freshness from the acid that’s like the ghost of sour cherry past. The finish is dusty and savory, and goes on and on.
  
  I just love Northern Rhône syrah, especially with age, and this is a beautiful example. Peak drinking window right now. It might still develop a little more, but I wouldn’t want to miss that burst of freshness that’s still hanging around to enliven everything else.

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  8/31/2019 - OttawaB Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Reddish granite in colour. Not inky or thick. Medium weight. Aromas of blueberries, dark berries, vanilla, florals.
  Flavours show blueberry compote, blackberries, spices, vanilla and some smoked meat and pepper on the mid palate to finish. Nice decent length to the finish. Feels like the acidity is waning a bit . But otherwise very nice drinking, easy, good complexity. The tannins are almost non-existent now, but still drying.

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  3/18/2017 - Tannatastic Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Now I get it! Absolutely on-the-button right now.
  
  A slight contrast to the two previous bottles, this had a little more of a Burgundian than Riojan feel to it. Plenty of red fruits, nice acidity and balance. Still got that pepper twist ending, which adds rather than detracts.
  
  And, judging by how this seemed to put on weight in the decanter, I think this will still be drinking well way beyond the 2019 drinking date stated. It's pricey, but this bottle represented far better 'value' than previous ones.

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