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• rocknroller wrote: 95 points

  August 20, 2022 - Siggy's Annual BBQ (Chez Siggy & Jenny's Place, Mpls, MN): Dark red color. Splash double decanted for 1 hour. Drank a glass over 30 minutes. This is one of those wines that gets overlooked because of vintage generalizations. Well make no mistake, this is still La La at its finest. Sometimes not having the expectations or need for aging can serve you well. That's not say we're at a lesser level by any means either. This is always the kind of wine I want to drink; aged, maturing, showing finesse and character; such pretty red fruits with nuances of black and blue fruit, cured meats, earth and leather, a touch of damp funkiness, leather, minerals and tar. Just gorgeous. 94+ to 95pts.

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• chablis28 wrote: 95 points

  August 20, 2022 - My thought about this wine is, this is Cote Rotie for Burgundy lovers like myself! Weightlessly elegant & suave w/ pristine dark fruit, cured meat, spice and a good sense of minerality. A lacier version of syrah infused w/ femineity & come hither. Enjoyed this very much and one of my WOTN. Thanks Kevin!

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• Axone Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 19, 2022 - Le vin est très flatteur avec un enrobage un peu marqué mais cela ne me gêne pas outre mesure.
  Belle réussite dans un millésime difficile.
  Dans une bonne fenêtre de dégustation.

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• Francophile1 Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 2, 2017 - 2002 La La Horizontal Tasting. It is truly impressive what Guigal was able to achieve with this difficult vintage in Cote-Rotie. This ranked 3 of 3 of the three La Las. It was still excellent, but because it was somewhere in between the Landonne and the Mouline, it neither had the power and structure of the Landonne, nor balance and finesse of the Mouline. If this wine tastes this good from 2002 vintage, I can only imagine what it tastes like from a good vintage. Pop & Poured with no decant. However, consumed these over a 3 hour period. A great expression of Northern Rhone Syrah & Viognier.

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• Nanda wrote: 94 points

  September 23, 2017 - Dinner with Friends (Brasserie Margeuax): 2002, you say? No chance one would peg this as an off vintage Cote Rotie given the concentration and richness of fruit. Still shows a fair bit of new oak initially, but with air the rich black fruit, smoked meat and pepper integrates with toasty/mocha notes. Young, and yes, there is upside from here. Drink now for a youthful pleasure, or hold for something more complex, but you can't go wrong.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Turque
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie

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• Consumed 166 (32%)

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