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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 1/28/2022: La Tablee: The Glory of Cote Rotie (Clusel Roch) (Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria): Very fresh and bright and it almost seems a hint minty in style. Lots of minerality. Darker fruits. Well balanced. Drinks very well but I think more years continues to improve it. (865 views) | | | Tasted by alpha_ori on 4/14/2018 & rated 95 points: OTBN #15 (P&D's house): Tasted during a blind tasting, though I knew this one was the one we brought due to its position.
There's earth and cherry in this wine as well (the previous wine was a 2008 Gevrey-Chambertin). Even so, it smells and tastes very different. I'm finding it difficult to articulate how the cherries are different and how the earth is different.
This wine more fragrant, though, than the Burgundy. On the palate it is savory and markedly tart, with the flavor of sour cherries, a bit of stemminess, and maybe a touch of olive. The midpalate is full, though it does drop in intensity relatively quickly. But the finish is pleasant and long. (1293 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 12/3/2016 & rated 95 points: Lots of ripe fruit and white pepper on the nose. Purple fruit, bacon, black olives and very fine tannins. I love where it is now. (1398 views) | | | Tasted by matt182 on 5/20/2013 & rated 92 points: Great CR, cherries, rasperries, violets and white pepper. This wine is ready, but will stay on it's prime for 5-10 years. (2395 views) |
| By Julia Harding, MW
JancisRobinson.com (10/22/2007)
(Clusel-Roch, Les Grandes Places Côte Rôtie Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, January/February 2003, IWC Issue #106
(Domaine Clusel Roch Cote Rotie Les Grandes Places) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Clusel-Roch Producer website - Read more about Clusel Roch wines
Founded by René Clusel in 1969, the winery is now run by his son, Gilbert. In 1989 the domaine changed its name to Domaine Clusel-Roch, borrowing the name of Gilbert's wife, Brigitte Roch, and giving the newer, larger winery its own identity.
Today the property is still tiny: just 3.5 hectares in Côte Rôtie and just half a hectare in Condrieu. The vines are planted on terraces along the Côte Rôtie, with two wooden stakes tied above each vine to help protect against the region's occasionally howling winds. Having officially converted to organic farming practices in 2002, most work in the vineyards is done manually, without the use of any chemical fertilizers.
In order to even better express the tradition of the vineyard, the domaine only uses vines from their own selection of Syrah plantings, which are grafted in their own small nursery. According to Gilbert, these traditional Ampius vines are less productive and give more complex aromas than available modern selections. When harvest time comes, the grapes are manually selected, and fermented with indigenous yeasts, furthering the site purity in each wine.
With annual production hovering at about 1250 cases per year, Domaine Clusel-Roch is able to focus all their attention on each aspect of the winemaking, from vine to bottle, and it shows! Syrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. Les Grandes PlacesSingle vineyard near Ampuis. Details on weinlagen-info.deFrance Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMESCôte-Rôtie Guide to Cote Rotie - Read about the Northern Rhone Valley
• The Appellation cover three communes - Saint-Cyr-sur-Rhône, Ampuis and Tupin-Semons - on the right Rhône river bank, within the Rhône "département".
• Soils : In the northern part of the vineyard, the Côte Brune, consists of extremely steep, terraced slopes of ferruginous mica schists which are covered with schist sand (arzel).The Côte Blonde has a varied geology with gneiss and granite predominating at the most southern side of the appellation.
• Climate : tempered continental. Dry, hot summers and frequent rainfalls during the other seasons. History : one of the oldest vineyards in France, first developed by the Romans. It is said that during the Middle Ages, "The Seigneur de Maugiron" bequeathed a hillside to each of his daughters, one was brunette and the other fair. Thus, were born the names of "Côte Brune" and "Côte Blonde".
• Area planted : 230 hectares (568 acres), for an annual production of 8,400 hectoliters (93,333 cases). Authorized maximum yield is 40 hectoliters/hectare (2,3 US tons/acre).
• Grape Varieties : Syrah (80% minimum). An addition of up to 20% of Viognier grapes in the crop is allowed.
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