Community Tasting Note

Ary wrote:

Friday, August 15, 2014 - Drank alongside the La Landonne 1999 by Guigal (wow!) half on Friday (pop & pour) and the second half on Saturday for dinner. Stunning wine, next to the 1999 this wine is in the next gear with another ten years on bottle. Wasn't even aware such great wine could be made in Cote Rotie even though I have been a fan of the appellation since a long time. Notes of the second day, also this bottle really needs the 24 hours to open up. Thick freshly crushed dark cherries in the nose, marzipan, almond-paste but also layers of horse saddle, bacon fat, spices and chocolate. A wine to sit back and mesmerize. On the concentrated and intense palate dark fruits, saddle and wood like wet forest floor in Autumn. Excellent balance, good acidity for many more years. Magical finish (earth and minerals), lingering on for minutes with still loads of well-integrated tannins. Note: It didn't have the delineation of the 1999 and has a different more masculine style.

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