1999 Domaine Gallet (Henri et Philippe) Côte-Rôtie

Community Tasting Notes (57) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  4/15/2023 - salil wrote: 95 Points

  Fat farmer FTW. Always love this wine (and the label), and this is easily the best bottle of the '99 I've had yet. While the Chave was all about whispery subtlety, this is bold and intense with vivid meaty, gamey, peppery, and all kinds of other savoury elements framing a core of ripe red and black fruit. It's a rich wine that shows the ripeness of the vintage, but the balance is terrific and it's wonderful, old-school Syrah. The richness and structure suggests there's plenty of time ahead, and I'm glad I have one bottle of this in the cellar.

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  4/15/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  "I'm not having a glass of wine; I'm having six. It's called a tasting and it's classy." (Chicago, IL): Fat farmer is tops. This is old school, classic syrah, the way God intended syrah to be. So much blood and meat on the nose, with smoke, olive brine, black fruit, pepper, seriously it's a laundry list of all the elements of a proper syrah made in a backwards, rustic style with big(ish) tannins and no new oak. Not as fruit-forward as you might expect for 1999, but there's definitely plenty of structure here. This outperformed the 1989 Chave Hermitage today.

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  1/16/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 91 Points

  5th and 6th of 6, opened 30 minutes, perfect corks and levels, this has turned corner with aplomb since previous bottles, smokey bacon flavours now properly complemented by fruit and herbaceous notes largely resolved, not at all sophisticated but wonderfully sauvage and original, surprisingly complex and persistent given my previous bottles, plateau, 10 years. F (17.5).

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  10/30/2022 - Chomsky wrote:

  Another fine bottle, my first in a couple of years. Still dark and compact upon pop-n-pour, with about 30 minutes in the decanter the wine opened up nicely with a rich, brothy nose marked by scorched coffee beans and camphor notes. Like smooth, cold marble on the palate, deep pork broth and cool blue fruits, seriously gamy; great with my steak. After about 3 hours things got fuzzier and a chewy baker's chocolate note crept in on the finish. Perhaps the end is closing in on these but it has been a great ride.

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  5/23/2020 - Seth Rosenberg wrote:

  Double decanted this and the aroma was screaming right out of the gate. This has more fruit than most other bottles and early on it is just gorgeous - black raspberry and a little black currant with some violet and then a ton of the savory-saline thing one expects from this wine. It’s like minerals-gravel-stones, licking those really, something wild and feral, maybe smoky and olives and a bit of smoked meat. I didn’t get a note on the palate on day one.
  
  The next day the nose has less fruit and the saline-mineral-fetal thing is out in full force w a hint of violets. There is a little rotting leaves thing lurking in the background and it is stronger on the palate.

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