Community Tasting Notes 28

• Cote d'Or Likes this wine:

  March 29, 2024 - Tasted over 2 hrs
  -med dark red minimal clearing
  -slightly savory dark berry black pepper
  -med acidity, med weight nicely concentrated dark berry savory saline mineral, med tannins
  -not as meaty as some vintages but still has a bit of a wild side, drinking well now still early on mature plateau; just love how Levet's Chavaroche reliably delivers savory wild fruit balanced with a healthy wholesome rusticity while effortlessly aging - great Côte-Rôtie!

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  March 14, 2024 - Small dinner to try out a new restaurant (Mihan): Good grief these are vanishing all too quickly. On the nose, blood, dirt, just a hint of greenness. Some discussion as to whether you'd call it a Côte Rôtie blind, or a Cornas. Lovely palate and some well behaved tannin at the back. Mine and the table's WOTN. I suspect this has some time ahead of it but jolly decent now.

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  February 12, 2024 - A little funk on the nose, but unlike the Paris that disappears quickly. This is great, lovely spine of acidity, earth, dark fruits, I'm sure it's got life ahead of it yet but this is doing everything that's asked of it right now.

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• talbot61 Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 29, 2024 - The Levet Chavaroche is consistently one of our favorite wines. This was our first bottle of the 2011. This vintage has a different kind of excellence, and is the best for immediate drinking. The 2009 and 2012 are more classic versions and will probably be better than the 2011 eventually, but this bottle provided a lot of pleasure with some loin lamb chops and lentils.
  
  Lots of sediment, so stand the bottle up for at least a few hours before opening, and it may be worth decanting for sediment, though the wine doesn't need aeration for drinking. It is initially much paler and lighter-bodied than other vintages, though it gained structure over the course of the evening, and ended more tannic than it started. It has the characteristic Levet funkiness, with a lot of leather, earthiness, and sweet cherry fruit. Beautiful balance and complexity. This is a fully mature wine, and though it doesn't have the exciting ferocity of the 2012, it is a gorgeous wine (not unlike an old Clos des Papes we had recently).

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  January 26, 2024 - A trio of Friday Syrahs: Oooh - a little funk, a little edge, spent the evening torn between deciding whether i really quite like this, or I REALLY quite like this. On pouring - a little earthiness, but none of the brett for which Levet is sometimes renowned. It opens up and gets bloodier and earthier as time goes on - there's a real energy to this, a real character. This isn't the time of the evening to be opening up another bottle of the same wine...but if it were, I would.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Bernard Levet
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Chavaroche / La Péroline
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie

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• Pending Delivery 46 (9%)
• In Cellars 337 (66%)
• Consumed 130 (25%)

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