1998 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'Ampuis

Community Tasting Notes (162) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  3/2/2024 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Stood up for 2 weeks, double decanted to remove sediments, 30 min in decanter before serving, medium red, beautiful soaring powerful Syrah nose of black fruits, salted olives, roast meats, lovely balance, quite perfect today, a stupendous match with roast duck, drinking at peak with many years left, WOTN for me

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  2/22/2024 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  (Not a) birthday dinner (Hinsdale, IL): Sometimes Guigal sucks, sometimes it's brilliant, and sometimes it works to rule. This is the latter. It has some smoky meat notes on the nose, but just really fails to do much more than that. Passable, but not at the level of a previous bottle.

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  2/17/2024 - AllRed wrote: 95 Points

  Périgord Truffle Dinner (George Trois, Winnetka): Faded crimson color with slight bricking at the meniscus. Textbook Côte-Rôtie with aromas of bacon fat, red currant and white pepper notes. Red berry fruit and pepper on the palate. With time in the glass this fills out and adds weight in the mid-palate. Fully-integrated and drinking at peak. a wonderful match for the short rib.
  
  This had been gently double decanted off its sediment a little over five hours before it was served.

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  11/5/2023 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

  Boston Wine + Poker, Salem, Mass.: Tasted blind. An elegant, well-behaved old-world wine, with some white-pepper flavor but few other clues to its identity.

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  7/31/2023 - lozatron Likes this wine:

  Sunday night with home-made Devon Wagyu burgers: Picked up a bottle with a damaged label at what seemed like an excellent price. I understand there is some cynicism about this wine in general - but keen to see whether "all 98 N Rhone is awesome" holds true. The nose is earthy, some damp embers, a bit of funk that may or may not be brett. On the palate - there's initially a bit of funk but that goes away after a few minutes, there's a kind of purity of fruit to it along with the earthiness and savouriness and smoke. This is almost thrilling - not in a Cornas-like way, a little less high-toned, but really lovely. Not sure how much further this has to go but if this is a typical bottle - drink 'em if you got 'em.

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