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• jhngo Likes this wine: 97 points

  February 10, 2022 - youthful rustic amazing!

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 100 points

  October 15, 2021 - 1985 La La's are getting harder to find, and taste. All I can say is, what a wine! Here you enjoy a full-bodied, rich, opulent, exotically textured, silky fresh wine with notes of smoke, thyme, garden herbs, brown sugar, dried flowers, violets, and sweet, red pit fruits and berries. The sensuous finish is bright, silky, vibrant, long, and frankly, seamless.

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• vetty wrote: 96 points

  July 16, 2021 - Drinking with the other two LAs from 85.
  I like La Landonne the most b/c La Mouline for me is too soft and smooth, and La Turque (which should be right in the middle) is even more rough compare to La Landonne. Maybe b/c of the bottle difference. I think this time La Landonne is right in the middle and has a little bit of everything.
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  It has more purple in color compare to La Landonne
  On nose: more perfume, more aroma intensity.
  On Palate: it's much smoother compare to the other two LAs. Very intense and mouth coating, but not deep.
  Sweet. but not enough structure. It does not have the clean feeling for its finish.
  
  After more aeration, there is more tannin, it's not that soft anymore, but still, I couldn't feel its back bone.
  Long finish with sweetness and endless softness. Too feminine for me.

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• hprphf Likes this wine: 100 points

  July 15, 2021 - Rhone & Champagne x BBQ Meats: Perfect fill, and perfect wine for that matter. Reserved, composed, graceful, really elegance in a glass. Sweet spice, soft cherry fruit, deep heat, lightly caramelized brown sugar, softly herbal, tiny greenness, incredibly heat in the back, woody, really all the flavors in perfect balance, from a singular point slowly expanding into all dimensions. Smooth, incredibly deep and energetic on the palate, warmly so at first, but there is enough sharpness to cut through everything. The heat lingers forever, as it spreads across taste buds towards the front of palate again. Didn’t fade even at the bottom of the throat. At the same time it is so rich, lifted, almost chewy, with a lingering cherry acidity that keeps it fresh. Mouthwatering afterwards, with mindblowingly deep spice elements all around. I thought in characters this is the RC of Rhone. As good as it gets. 100

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• robferguson1 wrote: 93 points

  April 12, 2020 - Excellent, wonderful colour but felt I had missed the prime.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1985
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Mouline
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie

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• In Cellars 415 (68%)
• Consumed 184 (30%)

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