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• Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 7, 2024 - Opened as part of a tasting with Alex Macdonald and while he was in town. Day two was a small group of us with killer wines (2010 Chave Hermitage, mag of ‘02 Krug, Selosse Substance, 1996 Latour, 2003 Mouton, 1992 Dominus).
  
  Quick one hour double decant to prep this beauty. While La Mouline is my favorite, La Turque still incorporates the co-ferment with Viognier. 93 Syrah/7 Viognier.
  
  Beautiful translucent ruby in the glass. As I get with certain Cote Rotie wines (especially Guigal), barbecue and bacon fat can be overwhelming when young, but this has channeled a really balanced profile. Aromatic notes of smoked meat, cherry liqueur, and espresso. Beautifully rich yet elegant on the palate. Great nerve of acidity with a finish sporting plenty of tannin to carry this a while. Black peppered raspberries, black fruit on the palate with a little bacon and a hint of sweet/tangy red fruit at the core note. Enjoy now with a short decant or hold another 5yrs.

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• Frank Schneider wrote: 97 points

  September 12, 2023 - Such a damn good wine. 5 h were needed to let it blossom. Will be even better in 5 to 10 years. Need more 97+

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• Francophile1 Likes this wine:

  July 3, 2023 - July 4th Mondo Event (Atlanta, GA): Tasted blind. Drinking in a great spot now with integrated tannin, some lovely spice on the backend, some sweet tannins and a kiss of oak. I struggled to place this wine, but most called it N. Rhone.

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• MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 10, 2023 - Popped and poured. Very clear, even right off the bat, that this is not your ordinary Cote Rotie. Very young in appearance, after 20 years! More red/violet than anything. Brilliant, with full legs. This bottle, purchased only a year or two ago, has obviously been very well kept. Smoky, meaty aromas arising from the glass already. Seems very polished in the mouth, with a glass-like texture, but there is power here, too. Placeholder note for now, rating after it airs a bit more. A bit more than two hours in, this is developing some white pepper in the nose to go along with the meaty elements. Not much development in the mouth so far. Now about four hours in, raw meat in the nose. Flavors mostly blackberries and earth; rather monolithic to me. This wine has such a freshness about it, seems so young, I wonder if it needs more time to reveal more charms (or is this as good as it gets?). At the moment, more lean than I would have expected, but that may just be the vintage, which was good but not great by all accounts. My rating, after tasting over several hours of sipping: 5-13-16-8: 92/100.

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• Ernestas Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 11, 2023 - Guigal’s La-La-La horizontal, wine #1/3. 93% Syrah & 7% Viognier, vines average 28 years of age, aged for 42 months in new oak. For me it was the smokiest of the trio heavenly concentrated, but not as powerful as Landone or delicate as Moulin. Heavily smoked complex aroma of smoked cold cuts, roasted raw beef, dried strawberries, char, leather, scorched earth, dried tomatoes. Full body, concentrated and multilayered with core smoky flavours, spices and salty edges with bright acidity and rich but smooth tannins.
  After 9 hours became more polished and elegant with more herbal and black tea infused flavours.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Turque
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie
• UPC Codes 3536650131001, 3536650131506

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• Pending Delivery 7 (1%)
• In Cellars 680 (67%)
• Consumed 326 (32%)

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