2008 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Turque

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  9/11/2023 - Lord Rodney wrote: 94 Points

  Beautiful - open but needs 5 more years to the top

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  8/31/2023 - mflesh wrote: 93 Points

  This 2008 Guigal Rotie was in a very nice place. This wine had been opened for about 10 hours prior to recorking and serving. From the initial nose, this one just seemed to be a product of a "hotter" climate. Cote Rotie means "roasted slope", steep west-facing hillsides and this translates to very robust, "roasted" and immense red wines. On the nose, charred black fruits, hint of age, a little bit "hot." The entry is roasted, barbecued blackberries, black cherries, and black licorice. Herbs de Provence on the entry and mid-palate. The middle of this wine is earthy black figs, tobacco, BBQ potato chips. Finishes with black pepper, still quite a bit of chalky tannins, and still has a few years of life left in it. What a nice wine enjoyed tonight with elk, buffalo, and burnt end mac and cheese!!! Enjoy now with a healthy decant, or hold for another 3-5 years!

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  6/21/2023 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  {Bought by DE on release; tasted with LT, MB, SO, DE; tasted in flight with 1999 Delas La Landonne and 1996 Clape Cornas. Tasted without decanting} Extraordinarily sexy fragrant nose bursting from the glass, like a great Amoureuses, but fruit in the mouth still needs some time to round out. Superb Syrah tannins and fruit. Indeed after being open for several hours the wine had tightened up! Probably a 97 point wine in the long run but based on tonight's showing would hold another 5 years. Just pipped by the extraordinary Clape Cornas (96) tonight, but I think in the long run this flamboyant wine has the potential to reach a little higher.

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  5/5/2023 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 Points

  13%abv. Dried floral, graphite, smoky, sweet ripe black fruits, grilled meat, tarry, scorched earth, sweet and pungent spices, wood. Layered and expansive yet very fine and focus. Masculine and savoury in an elegant package. Lovely vintage.

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  4/29/2023 - MC wrote:

  Decanted 3 hours and drank really well with dark fruit, earth, leather, and really nice balance with and without food. In a really good spot. A-

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