Served blind, decanted for an hour, dark, guessing Burg, finessed, too rich & powerful for a Burg, Guigal La Mouline! Wow, concentrated but tannins are cashmere like, years left in the tank, in fact will get better, probably 3-5 yrs from its peak 95+
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First Wednesday Wine Club Rhone Dinner (One Penny Red, Summer Hill): Volatile acidity dominates plummy fruit, savoury notes, black and green peppercorns, sweet spice though this isn't really a promising nose. In the mouth it's sour and volatile, metallic with sharp red fruits. FLAW
Ahh, La La! Removed from the cellar three hours in advance @ room temp. First pour had tight tart fruit on the nose. The second pour exploded with game funk. Aromas of dark cherries, leather, with a touch of Royal Crown Regal. The rest was smile after smile. Guigal at his best! In honor of the birth of Max, my second grandchild. EG #WineArchitect, #ArchitecturalArtistry . . . . #Guigal, #LaMouline, #CoteRotie
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Incredible nose with smoke, spices, olives and black fruit. First a little tight, but opens up after an hour and is rich and full bodied with a long finish with great structure. Love the smokey nuances, but more power than finesse and complexity. A lot to like here.
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Wonderful wine! Sweet, spicy, fullish and fun. meaty with some worcestershire savory notes. Long. The oak has integrated nicely. Modern wine done beautifully. Love this. thanks, tom. (96)
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KYD #2.4: Fresh black currant fruit. Still feels young but also like there is no more stuffing in the wine. Slightly delicate in the flavors and the fruit seems very fragile. I would had expected more but overall a lovely and mature wine.
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Opened in Hong Kong. Decanted before serving over dinner.
This was WOTN for me - despite it being the only wine that was outside our original theme for vintages. Absolutely gorgeous - dark, black fruit wafting through with peppery spice on the palate. Great structure and acidity yet supple in the mouth. Guigal does it again and with some age and air it never disappoints.
Will definitely keep and potentially has the structure to gain an extra point with age. Excited to see how this goes and I will be keen to revisit in 3+ years to see how it's doing.
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Slow decant from the cellar for four hours. Needed an ice/water bath for another hour to coax the aromatics out of the wine. Fine sediment at the bottom of the bottle and noticed the wine quit cloudy during decantation. Slow oxed for another hour and served with lamb course. The wine cleared up and there were aromatics of smoke, bacon and mineral. Flavors to match with a medium finish. This bottle ended up showing brilliantly in the end and still very youthful.
I bought this bottle upon release and have stored it properly since then. Opened and tasted immediately. It had a musty smell without much fruit. Disjointed and unpleasant. This wine needed 4 hours in a decanter to come together. Finally, the beautiful sweet fruit returned and the last glass was quite a pleasure to drink. I'd wait a few more years for this one.
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Summer Mondo Event $200+ (Roswell, GA): Cloudy core with large reddish maroon rim; meat, cedar, woodsy, light pine, smoked meat, perfumed, Indian spices, black pepper, granite, dark berry, slightly wild but a refinement that's apparent; good weight on the palate, leather, meat, fruit, pure cherry, nice freshness, regal and still nicely structured; delicious, have a sneaking suspicion that this is mine.
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Dark ruby color. Barnyard with ripe black fruits on nose. Dry, zippy acidity, dusty tannins, palate follows through (hollow on mid palate). Medium full body. Ok balance. Medium finish. Thought it was a younger vintage.
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Its been 11 years since we had this last ( Papies 93) and this is now hitting its full swing but frankly this has another 20years in the tank and will probably hit peak in 10. Nicol who tries this blind won no prizes for going straight to 25yr old Cote Rotie. Smoky, meaty, dark fruit, spice and of course a decent level of underlying oak ( does not intrude on the wine though not does it feel out of place, just the usual Guigal style). Very much alive, elegant and with little secondary feel. Really impressive wine and just wait for it and very high 90s are on the way. 95 for now & wow.
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Initially tightly wound and pretty slow to get going, but it makes a big change after a sufficient decant and begins to show what La Mouline is all about. Pure class and elegance with seductive and complex aromatics of red berry jam, bacon fat, campfire smoke and fresh violets. The palate is expansive with killer intensity, a velvety texture and a long and vibrant finish. Last sips were the best. This is still young.
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This is a stunner and finally ready to drink, although further age won't hurt. Decanted for about an hour. Explosive aromas of dark fruit, mint, flowers, spices, herbs, tar, and just a hint of meat. Nose evolves over the course of a few more hours. Palate is rich and ripe but not over the top. The perfect balance of power and finesse that La Mouline can achieve.
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At 20 this is the right time to be drinking this gem. Fresh, spicy, floral, long, and intense, the wine is showy, without being over the top. The smoky, spicy, red fruits, crushed rock, herbs, pepper, and flowery nuances with a background note of white peach hit the spot. This is really drinking well today.
Much different showing than a few months ago, this was considerably more reserved. Tonight we drank from an OWC sixpack and I think the provenance was so good the wine hasn't evolved nearly as much as the bottle tasted from another source this summer. Given this gap in performance, it's wise to have a decanter at the ready for bottles evolving at a glacial pace.
Dense fruit, dark color, and didn't soften up much in the glass over 90 minutes. A serious wine that will undoubtedly be a superstar.
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Seamless and elegant, great poise and balance. This bested 3 bottles of Chave Hermitage tonight, a touch better than the '96 for my taste and way better than the younger bottles. This wine is more subtle, it's not going to blow people away with power, but it's quite beautiful. I'd be inclined to drink this wine over the next 5 years, I like the phase it's currently in.
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This is still youthful but showing some signs of finally turning the corner into secondary development. There are delicious and succulent dark red fruits with emerging notes of smoky embers and charred meats. The texture is still a bit rustic for this bottling with very firm acidity and a crisp intensity. The finish is rich and tangy showing lovely flavors of tar, black cherry, deep violet spice and charcoal minerals. All is in balance and I truly believe this will emerge in 5-10 years as a very top vintage of La Mouline even if it's somewhat haughty right now. 93+
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Second time with this wine and again I'd say it's drinking quite well given that it's still a baby by LaLa standards (although we're almost at the 20 year mark). It is smokey and bacon fat and maybe a bit of tar. It's not as in your face as some of the wines and might even be a bit closed, but what it was showing was elegant and delicious.
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Smokin Meat and Serious Syrah 2.0 (Westport, CT): This was a surprise for me. Generally speaking I feel like these wines really benefit from a lot of age and while I know this was a more muted vintage I wasn't sure how well it would do. This was really delicious though. I'm sure it will get better, but it was quite compelling now. Very smooth with darker fruits and a bit of developing elegance starting to come through. Very enjoyable.
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Excellent showing. Dark burgundy color with great nose. Firm tannins, with a gamy, woodsy side typical of cote rotie. Very good now but has considerable upside.
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True ruby that is beginning to show some maturity at the edge. Top notch nose of black cherry, earth and subtle oak spice. A voluptuous, caressing wine. Lots of energy in the mid-palate and possessing excellent length. This is a special wine that should be even better in 5 or 6 years. Still a bit coiled. (95+)
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The last few bottles of this have been pretty meh. There's syrah fruit on the nose, and a good dose of smoky bacon. It's high pitched, more medium bodied, and fairly abrupt. Both mature elements, particularly on the finish, where there's sort of a rustic iron note, and immature structural components including a rather firm, grainy tannin presence. There's nothing to dislike about this, but not a lot that makes it particularly noteworthy either. At the price I should have cut my losses a few bottles ago.
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Light but noticeable vanilla oak nose, some smoke; nice, deep red fruit, excellent mouthwatering acidity, somewhat silky and smooth, still relatively youthful. Very pleasant, but missing the depth and complexity I need to find in a wine of its price tag and supposed caliber.
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svartrød rosa kant Fast nese. Kirsebær, kjøtt hvit pepper, blomster og rødbær. Elegant munn, kirsebær, kirsebærsteiner, rødbær hint av oliven, og grønt. Lang tobakkspreget og pepperaktig avslutning. Konsentrert og intens , men likevel veloppdratt og elegant. Ungdommelig. Fantastisk balanse og Evig lang. Ungdommelig frukt, men drikker vanvittig bra nå! Min første lalala! Ble bare bedre utover kvelden 95-96
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Guigal New Releases including 2013 LaLas: Stalk, earth, white pepper, cassis and white florals. Still shows youthful fruit on the palate, it has good length and a nice earthy savoury character. It is bold but there is a sense of delicacy to the fruit. Nice but not up to the level of the young 2013s.
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2017 Guigal single vineyard cote rotie release dinner (Bel & Brio, Barangaroo): Savoury, funky, meaty, leathery, slight chalky notes, a touch of dishwater...Even though this has been decanted for at least a couple of hours it still opens in the glass…the funkiness dissipates, perfumed notes, black fruits and spice are revealed on the nose Juicy and fresh acidity, black, jubey fruits and a touch of stone fruit, still youthful on the palate through, there is to me ,a touch of sharpness and sourness...but, perhaps, with food.
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Masters of Syrah (Sixteen Restaurant, Chicago): Very, very good on an absolute basis but relative to the other wines tonight this was a tad simple and forward. Delicious aromatics of sweet black fruit, florals, spice, olives and pepper. Rich, ripe black fruit on the palate. Starts intense, but if I had to pick a nit, it thins out a bit on the finish.
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Masters of Syrah (Chicago, IL): My least favourite of the three Guigals tonight -- this was jutting and angular, and showing its oak the most of all (granted, it was also the youngest, and I do understand that this needs more time for the oak to "integrate"). A bit prickly on the nose and palate, this was also a bit more red than black-fruited, with fairly lively acidity.
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What a delight. It took some decanting before some of the funk blew off, but once it did, this beauty sang. It really is such an old world wine. Great fruit. Paired perfectly with steaks at Ruth's Chris. My friend Jim and I devoured it. It was worth the long wait. A gem.
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The wine had a gorgeous fruity bouquet with an expressive and impressive palate. Full of depth, complexity and finesse, it was round and delicious and finished with length and elegance. A wine with soul!
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Could have used a longer decant. Characteristic floral and blackberry notes, but fairly angular and it quickly gives way to a tannic, firm profile that just needs time.
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2001 E. GUIGAL LA MOULINE COTE ROTIE- the KIND; a La, La deluxe that is so good now and with the structure to evolve into greatness in the decades to come; tasty bacon bits with pepper and spice, violets, blueberry, plum and blackberry fruit; full bodied, long at the end.
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Decanted 30 minutes. Even on a hot summer night this wine delivers. Always showing some oak, but well integrated with great fruit, leather, and a long finish. Just a well balanced wine that always hits a sweet spot with me. A
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Tasted next to 2001 La Turque and La Landonne. Wonderful fruit on nose and palate, very expressive, slightly floral with notes of spices and smoked meat. On the palate quite open - the tannins are very much present but ripe and almost soft and in the background. Expressive, spicy with luscious fruit, good acidity, nice tannic grip towards the very long finish. Delicious. Drinking very well, but this will keep and might still improve. Certainly the most approachable of the three LaLas. 94-96
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Having never had a Cote-Rotie before, this was very delicious as well as educational. Nose is shy initially, but after a couple hours of air it came alive. Dark fruited, dense, brawny, and I finally get what people mean when describe the flavour profile with smoky meat. A subtle hint of green pepper on the finish along with light acidity, which added to it's intriguing nature rather than being perceived as green. The finish was a bit heavy initially but with time it became long and graceful.
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Double decanted for 2 hrs. Deep red with a barely bricking rim. Nose of pepper, tobacco leaves, licorice and smoke. Initially grippy and soon yield a smooth currant palate, concentrated but good balance with mild acidic finish. Shall continue to age well.
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Unreal. Great nose, liquorice, bloody, dark fruit, bacon. Good balance, fine grained tannin, red fruit on palate, good acidity. Cant wait to revisit in 10 years.
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Broody big and dense, with alluring smoky meaty and bacon notes. Full bodied, dense, very powerful and very acidic on the palate, this is a full frontal assault. It is not harmonious and needs time to settle down. There's is nothing elegant here yet. The acidity makes it edgy. However it could develop into something quite profound in 20 years from now.
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Tasted blind. I had no trouble pegging this as a Cote Rotie - it was just so textbook. Very floral, hugely concentrated plummy fruit, with massive acidity that gets your juices flowing. Very slight undertone of white pepper, bacon and clay. Rich and harmonious.
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Decanted 2 hours, but was decent right out of the bottle. With some air this was flat out great, and the wine of the night for many. Solid fruit, nice mixture of game, leather, earth, and the framing of toasty vanilla on the finish. Great wine. A
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Absolutely a fantacy. It's the best expression of both power and elegance. Inky ruby colour, explosive violet, graphite, white pepper,liquorice, fur, black berries, mint,vanilla...the feeling in the mouth showed its youth.Full-bodied, but with sharp acidity, the tannins are still nervous, thus closed. The integration of acidity, tannin and alcohol is not yet perfect, yet will be a absolute beauty in 5 years' time.
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The explosive nose is packed with licorice, flowers, wet earth, smoke, fresh red and black fruits and spice. On the palate, the wine is intense, full bodied and expansive, finishing with layers of powerful, refined, bright, fresh berries, spices and smoke. Drink now, or in a decade, either way, you will be rewarded with pleasure.
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Brilliant. Decanted for 3 hours. The wine showed most of its stuff this evening, but needs another 5 years to really shine. The supple and deep complexity balanced with sweet fruit makes this one of my favourite wines.
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2001 La, La shoot out. Medium garnet, quite light in color for a Syrah. Nose of torrefaction, meat, sweet spices with an acidic and alcoholic touch. On the palate medium-light bodied with a bit of a whole in the mid palate, soft tannins, attractive aromatics but strong acidity that thows it out of balance, a mere shadow of the Landonne. Did not much improve with time in the glass.
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This was the WOTN by a long margin - pitted against the 1990 Lynch Bages, the 1993 Latour, a 1985 Echezeaux Grand Cru, a 1985 Sabon single vineyard CdP, a 1986 Beringer Private Reserve, among others. What an amazing wine. An incredibly complex nose of spices, cinnamon, cloves, bacon, smoke, black fruits. A very deeply layered wine, with amazing balance and fruit. This will last for years, and I plan to open my last botle of this in 5 years.
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Decanted 7 hours. Awesome nose of cocoa, roasted coffee bean/espresso, vanilla bean, black cherry and raspberry extract, smoked game; clearly heavily oaked, which is just fine given the concentration of fruit. Open on the nose, but closed on the palate--despite a round, meaty mouthfeel, the acidity is overbearing and destroys the underlying fruit flavor profile. Way too young; needs 7-10 years.
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Dark cherry nose with notes of earth, mushrooms, matchbox, quite intense. Very good concentration, fine acidity, med+ body, extremely well built, powerful and discreet. Very-very good palate, just a touch spicy, nicely red toned with some olives and not too much obtrusive oak. Spicy finish and the oak shows more in the aftertaste, complex, very long and very fresh. Excellent and should only improve.
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Absolutely stunning wine with beautiful red fruit. Quite elegant even though it is so much power here. I had it decanted for almost 3 hours and I could have gone for longer. The food pairing with a Tagliata was top class.
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Drank with Tom, Nick and Bruce over dinner at Totoraku, along with a 1985 Monfortino (the winner), a 2000 Harlan (well made wine in a bad year, the bad year wins out in the end but it's still pleasant enough) and a surprisingly good 2005 Rocchioli Pinot, don't know the vineyard.
This wine was just starting to show after six hours of decanting and probably needs twelve before it comes out to play. When opened, incredibly tight, even astringent. I was almost afraid it was an off bottle. Several hours later, nose of cheery, licorice, a little bacon but the nuances were just starting to emerge. Much more open on the palate at this time. Went very well with food -- we had a lot of cow flesh at this "secret meat restaurant". Would have loved to give this another two hours. I have two bottles left -- you could certainly hold another few years, but my sense is it's drinking well given enough time to open -- and it takes a lot of time!
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Friday after Thanksgiving (Palm Beach, FL): Much better than a bottle earlier this month. Ripe dark fruits with violet and meaty notes. Dense, with a semi-viscous texture. Very nice.
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Just a few notes. This wine has great potential and has firm acidity and tannin still. Drying bitterness in the finish. Good fruits and a lot of spiciness. Still very youthful and rustic. For now just 94, but around 2017 probably a few points more. Great to taste it now already!
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Game and Rhone Tasting @ Peggy's (Villa Reynart, Opoeteren): This is exceptional stuff. Very soft and seductive, when compared to the Turque 97 which was served alongside. The freshness in this wine (bright acidity, clean and pure red and black fruit) is appealing and uplifting while its structure is classical and timeless. Very creamy and round without losing focus. Juicy midpalate carries on through the long and effortless finish. Spicy barnyard complexity is present but certainly not overbearing. 18,5/20
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An evening of Guigal La La's, Champagne and a few treats! (Scott & Jo's): My favorite of the 01 trio, but I think I was in the minority. The nose to me, was the most expressive, but perhaps it just had the elements I like better. It was the only one I really got that bacon fat quality I prize in Northern Rhone Syrahs. Also, black raspberries, violets and some other floral note, coffee and kirsch. On the palate, the texture is thick and lush. Great balance. Still a wall of tightly wound layers on the palate, but just delicious. A nice compliment of acidity. Lovely wine.
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Jen's Birthday (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Double decanted but it really needed 4-6 hours in a decanter or preferably another 10+ years in the cellar. Impossible to fairly assess in any way, other than point out the obvious incredible underlying raw materials.
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Dinner with Alex and Eric (The Press Room): as a big fan of La Mouline, this was a huge disappointment. despite being in a decanter for more than an hour, it was still tightly shut. oak was way too overwhelming and finish was dry with harsh tannins. extremely backward and cannot be enjoyed at this stage.
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Deep ruby with a garnet/black core. Soaring aromatics of black cherries, blood sausage and gravel are framed by a spicy oak element that is sinking nicely into the depths of the wine. The palate is beginning to round into a full, complete wine with superb balance and decent explosiveness. A bit more time is needed to fully bring things together. A wine one feels lucky to be experiencing. Top drawer stuff. (96+)
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All the 2001 Lalas are excellent and ready to drink, just found this particualar bottle a bit heavy on the oak to start off with. But there is no denying that this is a terricfic bottle of wine, highly concentrated without being hot, wonderful black fruit without being jammy, silky tannins and a super long dry aftertaste.
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Initially a more meaty, spicy, and restrained wine. Medium body. With time really pitchy aromatics - more floral and nutmeg/cinnamon spice. Well structured, which comes through on the finish, but very nice balance throughout. Really nice.
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Almost black in color. Nose of fresh lingenberries. Tastes of black cherry, white pepper and blueberry. Excellent balance. Nice depth in the mid palate with an extremely elegant finish. At this point in time I was rating this wine in the 94 range. However, after about 2 hours in the glass I began to pick up a little TCA. What a shame but a great wine nonetheless.
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not decanted. i got a lot of brett on this wine immediately, but the fruit seemed more open than the bottle i had with BradE last october. i don't consider myself very sensitive to brett, but as the night wore on, it bugged me with this bottle. eventually, a very experienced companion taster decided it was corked. in any event, a weird bottle, and one i won't rate. one clear thing to report, there still remains a lot of tannin. hold.
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dinner with brad england in minneapolis, my bottle. double decanted 2 hours. shows a little tight. the nose is fab, but then the midpalate can't follow. needs time (duh!) to let the tannins shed, and the oak to integrate, and i think it will. however, not a blockbuster.
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Had next to 01 Landonne, at times each was better than the other. What a joy to see these wines battle it out. Just about as impressive as syrah can be.
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Dinner with Eric Solomon and Daphne Glorian. The nose on this wine was just extraordinary. It did not have a big bacon-fat thing going on but it was intensely floral and exotic. Wild berries and Asian spice. Wish I had more of this in the cellar. I cried leaving half a glass on the table but one can only imbibe so much.
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12/6/2023 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 95 Points
Served blind, decanted for an hour, dark, guessing Burg, finessed, too rich & powerful for a Burg, Guigal La Mouline! Wow, concentrated but tannins are cashmere like, years left in the tank, in fact will get better, probably 3-5 yrs from its peak
95+
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11/22/2023 - chatters wrote: flawed
First Wednesday Wine Club Rhone Dinner (One Penny Red, Summer Hill): Volatile acidity dominates plummy fruit, savoury notes, black and green peppercorns, sweet spice though this isn't really a promising nose. In the mouth it's sour and volatile, metallic with sharp red fruits. FLAW
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9/19/2023 - ubercuvee wrote:
Tighter and less generous than the '01 La Turque opened 2 days earlier
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9/4/2023 - WineArchitect Likes this wine: 95 Points
Ahh, La La! Removed from the cellar three hours in advance @ room temp. First pour had tight tart fruit on the nose. The second pour exploded with game funk. Aromas of dark cherries, leather, with a touch of Royal Crown Regal. The rest was smile after smile. Guigal at his best! In honor of the birth of Max, my second grandchild. EG #WineArchitect, #ArchitecturalArtistry
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9/1/2023 - Whitman wrote: 94 Points
Incredible nose with smoke, spices, olives and black fruit. First a little tight, but opens up after an hour and is rich and full bodied with a long finish with great structure. Love the smokey nuances, but more power than finesse and complexity. A lot to like here.
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8/28/2023 - dbkitc wrote: 96 Points
Wonderful wine! Sweet, spicy, fullish and fun. meaty with some worcestershire savory notes. Long. The oak has integrated nicely. Modern wine done beautifully. Love this. thanks, tom. (96)
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8/26/2023 - canan wrote: 94 Points
KYD #2.4: Fresh black currant fruit. Still feels young but also like there is no more stuffing in the wine. Slightly delicate in the flavors and the fruit seems very fragile. I would had expected more but overall a lovely and mature wine.
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4/22/2023 - oxwombat Likes this wine: 94 Points
Opened in Hong Kong. Decanted before serving over dinner.
This was WOTN for me - despite it being the only wine that was outside our original theme for vintages. Absolutely gorgeous - dark, black fruit wafting through with peppery spice on the palate. Great structure and acidity yet supple in the mouth. Guigal does it again and with some age and air it never disappoints.
Will definitely keep and potentially has the structure to gain an extra point with age. Excited to see how this goes and I will be keen to revisit in 3+ years to see how it's doing.
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3/29/2023 - solace Likes this wine: 97 Points
Slightly cloudy and dark red colour. Beguiling nose of purple flowers, garrigue and sweet mure. Smells like burgundy with flowers
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3/2/2023 - WineArchitect wrote: 95 Points
Slow decant from the cellar for four hours. Needed an ice/water bath for another hour to coax the aromatics out of the wine. Fine sediment at the bottom of the bottle and noticed the wine quit cloudy during decantation. Slow oxed for another hour and served with lamb course. The wine cleared up and there were aromatics of smoke, bacon and mineral. Flavors to match with a medium finish. This bottle ended up showing brilliantly in the end and still very youthful.
EG WineArchitect #Guigal #Cote-Rotie #LaMouline #Rhone #BoG
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12/16/2022 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Couple hours open another taster notes that it has a kinda muddy quality to it. To me a little more than that, but not quite clear.
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12/16/2022 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Wow is that a nose. Smoky and bacon fat but with tight wound acidity on the back end.
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7/19/2022 - djage1 Likes this wine:
I bought this bottle upon release and have stored it properly since then.
Opened and tasted immediately. It had a musty smell without much fruit. Disjointed and unpleasant. This wine needed 4 hours in a decanter to come together. Finally, the beautiful sweet fruit returned and the last glass was quite a pleasure to drink. I'd wait a few more years for this one.
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6/26/2022 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Summer Mondo Event $200+ (Roswell, GA): Cloudy core with large reddish maroon rim; meat, cedar, woodsy, light pine, smoked meat, perfumed, Indian spices, black pepper, granite, dark berry, slightly wild but a refinement that's apparent; good weight on the palate, leather, meat, fruit, pure cherry, nice freshness, regal and still nicely structured; delicious, have a sneaking suspicion that this is mine.
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6/11/2022 - Costes76 Likes this wine: 87 Points
Dark ruby color. Barnyard with ripe black fruits on nose. Dry, zippy acidity, dusty tannins, palate follows through (hollow on mid palate). Medium full body. Ok balance. Medium finish. Thought it was a younger vintage.
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5/7/2022 - Papies wrote: 95 Points
Its been 11 years since we had this last ( Papies 93) and this is now hitting its full swing but frankly this has another 20years in the tank and will probably hit peak in 10.
Nicol who tries this blind won no prizes for going straight to 25yr old Cote Rotie. Smoky, meaty, dark fruit, spice and of course a decent level of underlying oak ( does not intrude on the wine though not does it feel out of place, just the usual Guigal style). Very much alive, elegant and with little secondary feel. Really impressive wine and just wait for it and very high 90s are on the way. 95 for now & wow.
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1/25/2022 - finediningnyc Likes this wine: 94 Points
Initially tightly wound and pretty slow to get going, but it makes a big change after a sufficient decant and begins to show what La Mouline is all about. Pure class and elegance with seductive and complex aromatics of red berry jam, bacon fat, campfire smoke and fresh violets. The palate is expansive with killer intensity, a velvety texture and a long and vibrant finish. Last sips were the best. This is still young.
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1/14/2022 - MaxSiegel Likes this wine: 98 Points
This is a stunner and finally ready to drink, although further age won't hurt. Decanted for about an hour. Explosive aromas of dark fruit, mint, flowers, spices, herbs, tar, and just a hint of meat. Nose evolves over the course of a few more hours. Palate is rich and ripe but not over the top. The perfect balance of power and finesse that La Mouline can achieve.
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10/14/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
At 20 this is the right time to be drinking this gem. Fresh, spicy, floral, long, and intense, the wine is showy, without being over the top. The smoky, spicy, red fruits, crushed rock, herbs, pepper, and flowery nuances with a background note of white peach hit the spot. This is really drinking well today.
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9/29/2021 - Alex G. wrote:
Much different showing than a few months ago, this was considerably more reserved. Tonight we drank from an OWC sixpack and I think the provenance was so good the wine hasn't evolved nearly as much as the bottle tasted from another source this summer. Given this gap in performance, it's wise to have a decanter at the ready for bottles evolving at a glacial pace.
Dense fruit, dark color, and didn't soften up much in the glass over 90 minutes. A serious wine that will undoubtedly be a superstar.
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7/3/2021 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Seamless and elegant, great poise and balance. This bested 3 bottles of Chave Hermitage tonight, a touch better than the '96 for my taste and way better than the younger bottles. This wine is more subtle, it's not going to blow people away with power, but it's quite beautiful. I'd be inclined to drink this wine over the next 5 years, I like the phase it's currently in.
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12/5/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is still youthful but showing some signs of finally turning the corner into secondary development. There are delicious and succulent dark red fruits with emerging notes of smoky embers and charred meats. The texture is still a bit rustic for this bottling with very firm acidity and a crisp intensity. The finish is rich and tangy showing lovely flavors of tar, black cherry, deep violet spice and charcoal minerals. All is in balance and I truly believe this will emerge in 5-10 years as a very top vintage of La Mouline even if it's somewhat haughty right now. 93+
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11/15/2020 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Second time with this wine and again I'd say it's drinking quite well given that it's still a baby by LaLa standards (although we're almost at the 20 year mark). It is smokey and bacon fat and maybe a bit of tar. It's not as in your face as some of the wines and might even be a bit closed, but what it was showing was elegant and delicious.
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11/7/2019 - chatters wrote:
2015 Guigal single vineyard cote rotie release dinner (Golden Century, Sussex Street): Blackberry, earth, graphite, leather, perfumed, a slightly stalky note. Slightly volatile, touch of wood glue, it's a bit sharp as well. Hmm.
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8/10/2019 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Smokin Meat and Serious Syrah 2.0 (Westport, CT): This was a surprise for me. Generally speaking I feel like these wines really benefit from a lot of age and while I know this was a more muted vintage I wasn't sure how well it would do. This was really delicious though. I'm sure it will get better, but it was quite compelling now. Very smooth with darker fruits and a bit of developing elegance starting to come through. Very enjoyable.
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2/21/2019 - SteelerFan wrote: 93 Points
Excellent showing. Dark burgundy color with great nose. Firm tannins, with a gamy, woodsy side typical of cote rotie. Very good now but has considerable upside.
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2/13/2019 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Tangy, tar, chewy purple fruits, rich, violets; core of aged nuts, oak showing, good but lacks balance. 91-92 Blind. Dirty Dozen N. Rhone at Taylors.
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12/26/2018 - dbkitc wrote: 95 Points
True ruby that is beginning to show some maturity at the edge. Top notch nose of black cherry, earth and subtle oak spice. A voluptuous, caressing wine. Lots of energy in the mid-palate and possessing excellent length. This is a special wine that should be even better in 5 or 6 years. Still a bit coiled. (95+)
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12/11/2018 - ubercuvee wrote: 92 Points
Not in a great place as others have noted .. just a bit too much oak for the current level of fruit.
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2/8/2018 - psmith wrote: 89 Points
The last few bottles of this have been pretty meh. There's syrah fruit on the nose, and a good dose of smoky bacon. It's high pitched, more medium bodied, and fairly abrupt. Both mature elements, particularly on the finish, where there's sort of a rustic iron note, and immature structural components including a rather firm, grainy tannin presence. There's nothing to dislike about this, but not a lot that makes it particularly noteworthy either. At the price I should have cut my losses a few bottles ago.
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2/6/2018 - alanr wrote: 91 Points
Light but noticeable vanilla oak nose, some smoke; nice, deep red fruit, excellent mouthwatering acidity, somewhat silky and smooth, still relatively youthful. Very pleasant, but missing the depth and complexity I need to find in a wine of its price tag and supposed caliber.
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12/26/2017 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 96 Points
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Fast nese. Kirsebær, kjøtt hvit pepper, blomster og rødbær.
Elegant munn, kirsebær, kirsebærsteiner, rødbær hint av oliven, og grønt. Lang tobakkspreget og pepperaktig avslutning. Konsentrert og intens , men likevel veloppdratt og elegant. Ungdommelig. Fantastisk balanse og Evig lang. Ungdommelig frukt, men drikker vanvittig bra nå! Min første lalala! Ble bare bedre utover kvelden 95-96
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10/27/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Some Wine Tasted at the Zachys Auction; 10/27/2017-10/28/2017 (Charlie Palmer Steak - Washington, DC): Small glass, brief note. Still a very tough wine to enjoy or assess. Very spice-driven and floral, ripe throughout but not showing the weighty concentration I would expect. This still needs so much time to really integrate and harmonize, but there is so much going on in all directions right now.
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9/20/2017 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Guigal New Releases including 2013 LaLas: Stalk, earth, white pepper, cassis and white florals. Still shows youthful fruit on the palate, it has good length and a nice earthy savoury character. It is bold but there is a sense of delicacy to the fruit. Nice but not up to the level of the young 2013s.
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9/20/2017 - chatters wrote:
2017 Guigal single vineyard cote rotie release dinner (Bel & Brio, Barangaroo): Savoury, funky, meaty, leathery, slight chalky notes, a touch of dishwater...Even though this has been decanted for at least a couple of hours it still opens in the glass…the funkiness dissipates, perfumed notes, black fruits and spice are revealed on the nose Juicy and fresh acidity, black, jubey fruits and a touch of stone fruit, still youthful on the palate through, there is to me ,a touch of sharpness and sourness...but, perhaps, with food.
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4/28/2017 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Masters of Syrah (Sixteen Restaurant, Chicago): Very, very good on an absolute basis but relative to the other wines tonight this was a tad simple and forward. Delicious aromatics of sweet black fruit, florals, spice, olives and pepper. Rich, ripe black fruit on the palate. Starts intense, but if I had to pick a nit, it thins out a bit on the finish.
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4/28/2017 - acyso wrote: 88 Points
Masters of Syrah (Chicago, IL): My least favourite of the three Guigals tonight -- this was jutting and angular, and showing its oak the most of all (granted, it was also the youngest, and I do understand that this needs more time for the oak to "integrate"). A bit prickly on the nose and palate, this was also a bit more red than black-fruited, with fairly lively acidity.
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4/10/2017 - A&C wrote: 94 Points
What a delight. It took some decanting before some of the funk blew off, but once it did, this beauty sang. It really is such an old world wine. Great fruit. Paired perfectly with steaks at Ruth's Chris. My friend Jim and I devoured it. It was worth the long wait. A gem.
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1/11/2017 - cardsandwine Likes this wine:
The wine had a gorgeous fruity bouquet with an expressive and impressive palate. Full of depth, complexity and finesse, it was round and delicious and finished with length and elegance. A wine with soul!
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9/9/2016 - psmith wrote: 91 Points
Could have used a longer decant. Characteristic floral and blackberry notes, but fairly angular and it quickly gives way to a tannic, firm profile that just needs time.
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8/27/2016 - Blake Brown wrote:
2001 E. GUIGAL LA MOULINE COTE ROTIE- the KIND; a La, La deluxe that is so good now and with the structure to evolve into greatness in the decades to come; tasty bacon bits with pepper and spice, violets, blueberry, plum and blackberry fruit; full bodied, long at the end.
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8/26/2016 - MC wrote:
Decanted 30 minutes. Even on a hot summer night this wine delivers. Always showing some oak, but well integrated with great fruit, leather, and a long finish. Just a well balanced wine that always hits a sweet spot with me. A
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3/17/2016 - rossi.wine wrote: 95 Points
Tasted next to 2001 La Turque and La Landonne. Wonderful fruit on nose and palate, very expressive, slightly floral with notes of spices and smoked meat. On the palate quite open - the tannins are very much present but ripe and almost soft and in the background. Expressive, spicy with luscious fruit, good acidity, nice tannic grip towards the very long finish. Delicious. Drinking very well, but this will keep and might still improve. Certainly the most approachable of the three LaLas. 94-96
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12/31/2015 - Hazeo wrote: 93 Points
Having never had a Cote-Rotie before, this was very delicious as well as educational. Nose is shy initially, but after a couple hours of air it came alive. Dark fruited, dense, brawny, and I finally get what people mean when describe the flavour profile with smoky meat. A subtle hint of green pepper on the finish along with light acidity, which added to it's intriguing nature rather than being perceived as green. The finish was a bit heavy initially but with time it became long and graceful.
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10/28/2015 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points
think this will take time
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10/12/2015 - conviction buy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Double decanted for 2 hrs. Deep red with a barely bricking rim. Nose of pepper, tobacco leaves, licorice and smoke. Initially grippy and soon yield a smooth currant palate, concentrated but good balance with mild acidic finish. Shall continue to age well.
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10/4/2015 - AWBryce wrote: 96 Points
Unreal. Great nose, liquorice, bloody, dark fruit, bacon. Good balance, fine grained tannin, red fruit on palate, good acidity. Cant wait to revisit in 10 years.
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9/5/2015 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 91 Points
Broody big and dense, with alluring smoky meaty and bacon notes. Full bodied, dense, very powerful and very acidic on the palate, this is a full frontal assault. It is not harmonious and needs time to settle down. There's is nothing elegant here yet. The acidity makes it edgy. However it could develop into something quite profound in 20 years from now.
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8/23/2015 - Rani Likes this wine: 97 Points
Tasted blind. I had no trouble pegging this as a Cote Rotie - it was just so textbook. Very floral, hugely concentrated plummy fruit, with massive acidity that gets your juices flowing. Very slight undertone of white pepper, bacon and clay. Rich and harmonious.
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5/23/2015 - ubercuvee wrote:
Bit modern and oaky. Plenty of class, but just showing a little too much oak and winemaking.
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4/20/2015 - PT insurgent wrote:
Tasted alongside the other La-La wines.
Nose of ripe plum, floral, silky spice, vanilla, clove, oak, quite glossy.
Palate - relatively delicate, floral, cassis, plum, clove, vanilla, violet, delicate floral nature, very pretty and seductive yet still massive.
Delicate, silky, beautiful. Quite glossy, spicy and sweet.
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1/3/2015 - MC wrote:
Decanted 2 hours, but was decent right out of the bottle. With some air this was flat out great, and the wine of the night for many. Solid fruit, nice mixture of game, leather, earth, and the framing of toasty vanilla on the finish. Great wine. A
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10/18/2014 - Flavito wrote: 91 Points
Great nose, still young and woody but quite balanced
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9/20/2014 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Siggy's BBQ Featuring a Trio of 2001 La La's and a Bevy of 2001 CDP's (Siggy & Jenny's Place, Mpls, MN): Bigger and meatier than the La Landonne, but equally provocative and aromatic on the nose. Great earthiness and perfume here too, red and dark red fruits, roasted meat, more power and concentration, but still quite refined and elegant. Tannins and round and tamed with a long finish. 95+pts.
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7/3/2014 - Button Yang Likes this wine: 96 Points
Absolutely a fantacy. It's the best expression of both power and elegance. Inky ruby colour, explosive violet, graphite, white pepper,liquorice, fur, black berries, mint,vanilla...the feeling in the mouth showed its youth.Full-bodied, but with sharp acidity, the tannins are still nervous, thus closed. The integration of acidity, tannin and alcohol is not yet perfect, yet will be a absolute beauty in 5 years' time.
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3/9/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The explosive nose is packed with licorice, flowers, wet earth, smoke, fresh red and black fruits and spice. On the palate, the wine is intense, full bodied and expansive, finishing with layers of powerful, refined, bright, fresh berries, spices and smoke. Drink now, or in a decade, either way, you will be rewarded with pleasure.
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12/25/2013 - la turque wrote: 95 Points
Brilliant. Decanted for 3 hours. The wine showed most of its stuff this evening, but needs another 5 years to really shine. The supple and deep complexity balanced with sweet fruit makes this one of my favourite wines.
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7/21/2013 - Collector1855 wrote: 89 Points
2001 La, La shoot out. Medium garnet, quite light in color for a Syrah. Nose of torrefaction, meat, sweet spices with an acidic and alcoholic touch. On the palate medium-light bodied with a bit of a whole in the mid palate, soft tannins, attractive aromatics but strong acidity that thows it out of balance, a mere shadow of the Landonne. Did not much improve with time in the glass.
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1/22/2013 - la turque wrote: 96 Points
This was the WOTN by a long margin - pitted against the 1990 Lynch Bages, the 1993 Latour, a 1985 Echezeaux Grand Cru, a 1985 Sabon single vineyard CdP, a 1986 Beringer Private Reserve, among others. What an amazing wine. An incredibly complex nose of spices, cinnamon, cloves, bacon, smoke, black fruits. A very deeply layered wine, with amazing balance and fruit. This will last for years, and I plan to open my last botle of this in 5 years.
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1/1/2013 - Giggs wrote: 94 Points
Decanted 7 hours. Awesome nose of cocoa, roasted coffee bean/espresso, vanilla bean, black cherry and raspberry extract, smoked game; clearly heavily oaked, which is just fine given the concentration of fruit. Open on the nose, but closed on the palate--despite a round, meaty mouthfeel, the acidity is overbearing and destroys the underlying fruit flavor profile. Way too young; needs 7-10 years.
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11/23/2012 - psmith wrote:
Friday after Thanksgiving II (Palm Beach Gardens, FL): Muted. Dark fruits. Still very closed, and all structure. Nothing off-putting, but not in a good place tonight.
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8/20/2012 - igaf wrote:
Dark cherry nose with notes of earth, mushrooms, matchbox, quite intense. Very good concentration, fine acidity, med+ body, extremely well built, powerful and discreet. Very-very good palate, just a touch spicy, nicely red toned with some olives and not too much obtrusive oak. Spicy finish and the oak shows more in the aftertaste, complex, very long and very fresh. Excellent and should only improve.
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3/11/2012 - St Paul wrote: 97 Points
Absolutely stunning wine with beautiful red fruit. Quite elegant even though it is so much power here. I had it decanted for almost 3 hours and I could have gone for longer. The food pairing with a Tagliata was top class.
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1/12/2012 - nvandyk wrote: 94 Points
Drank with Tom, Nick and Bruce over dinner at Totoraku, along with a 1985 Monfortino (the winner), a 2000 Harlan (well made wine in a bad year, the bad year wins out in the end but it's still pleasant enough) and a surprisingly good 2005 Rocchioli Pinot, don't know the vineyard.
This wine was just starting to show after six hours of decanting and probably needs twelve before it comes out to play. When opened, incredibly tight, even astringent. I was almost afraid it was an off bottle. Several hours later, nose of cheery, licorice, a little bacon but the nuances were just starting to emerge. Much more open on the palate at this time. Went very well with food -- we had a lot of cow flesh at this "secret meat restaurant". Would have loved to give this another two hours. I have two bottles left -- you could certainly hold another few years, but my sense is it's drinking well given enough time to open -- and it takes a lot of time!
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11/25/2011 - psmith wrote: 93 Points
Friday after Thanksgiving (Palm Beach, FL): Much better than a bottle earlier this month. Ripe dark fruits with violet and meaty notes. Dense, with a semi-viscous texture. Very nice.
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11/20/2011 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Just a few notes. This wine has great potential and has firm acidity and tannin still. Drying bitterness in the finish. Good fruits and a lot of spiciness. Still very youthful and rustic. For now just 94, but around 2017 probably a few points more. Great to taste it now already!
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11/19/2011 - jkoenen wrote: 94 Points
Game and Rhone Tasting @ Peggy's (Villa Reynart, Opoeteren): This is exceptional stuff. Very soft and seductive, when compared to the Turque 97 which was served alongside. The freshness in this wine (bright acidity, clean and pure red and black fruit) is appealing and uplifting while its structure is classical and timeless. Very creamy and round without losing focus. Juicy midpalate carries on through the long and effortless finish. Spicy barnyard complexity is present but certainly not overbearing. 18,5/20
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11/14/2011 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 97 Points
An evening of Guigal La La's, Champagne and a few treats! (Scott & Jo's): My favorite of the 01 trio, but I think I was in the minority. The nose to me, was the most expressive, but perhaps it just had the elements I like better. It was the only one I really got that bacon fat quality I prize in Northern Rhone Syrahs. Also, black raspberries, violets and some other floral note, coffee and kirsch. On the palate, the texture is thick and lush. Great balance. Still a wall of tightly wound layers on the palate, but just delicious. A nice compliment of acidity. Lovely wine.
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11/11/2011 - psmith wrote:
Showing just about nothing... Needs time.
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11/11/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Jen's Birthday (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Double decanted but it really needed 4-6 hours in a decanter or preferably another 10+ years in the cellar. Impossible to fairly assess in any way, other than point out the obvious incredible underlying raw materials.
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10/10/2011 - Lord Rayas wrote: 83 Points
Dinner with Alex and Eric (The Press Room): as a big fan of La Mouline, this was a huge disappointment. despite being in a decanter for more than an hour, it was still tightly shut. oak was way too overwhelming and finish was dry with harsh tannins. extremely backward and cannot be enjoyed at this stage.
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9/26/2011 - dbkitc wrote: 96 Points
Deep ruby with a garnet/black core. Soaring aromatics of black cherries, blood sausage and gravel are framed by a spicy oak element that is sinking nicely into the depths of the wine. The palate is beginning to round into a full, complete wine with superb balance and decent explosiveness. A bit more time is needed to fully bring things together. A wine one feels lucky to be experiencing. Top drawer stuff. (96+)
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9/21/2011 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Guigal Cote Rotie Masterclass with Brett Crittenden (Handford Wines, London): Intense, dense, balanced and long. To Guigal this is the right age to drink this wine. Elegant with lovely meaty and fruit notes on the nose. A special wine with a special price. 92-93 drink now
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9/27/2010 - PatrikO wrote: 95 Points
All the 2001 Lalas are excellent and ready to drink, just found this particualar bottle a bit heavy on the oak to start off with. But there is no denying that this is a terricfic bottle of wine, highly concentrated without being hot, wonderful black fruit without being jammy, silky tannins and a super long dry aftertaste.
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2/27/2010 - psmith wrote:
Initially a more meaty, spicy, and restrained wine. Medium body. With time really pitchy aromatics - more floral and nutmeg/cinnamon spice. Well structured, which comes through on the finish, but very nice balance throughout. Really nice.
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3/27/2009 - kstoddard wrote:
Almost black in color. Nose of fresh lingenberries. Tastes of black cherry, white pepper and blueberry. Excellent balance. Nice depth in the mid palate with an extremely elegant finish. At this point in time I was rating this wine in the 94 range. However, after about 2 hours in the glass I began to pick up a little TCA. What a shame but a great wine nonetheless.
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3/27/2009 - jeff nowak wrote:
not decanted. i got a lot of brett on this wine immediately, but the fruit seemed more open than the bottle i had with BradE last october. i don't consider myself very sensitive to brett, but as the night wore on, it bugged me with this bottle. eventually, a very experienced companion taster decided it was corked. in any event, a weird bottle, and one i won't rate. one clear thing to report, there still remains a lot of tannin. hold.
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10/2/2008 - jeff nowak wrote: 91 Points
dinner with brad england in minneapolis, my bottle. double decanted 2 hours. shows a little tight. the nose is fab, but then the midpalate can't follow. needs time (duh!) to let the tannins shed, and the oak to integrate, and i think it will. however, not a blockbuster.
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8/29/2008 - Tavastgatan wrote: 98 Points
What a wine. It's like pressing your face to the most delicious chocolate dessert and then inhale. Fabulous.
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5/20/2008 - la turque wrote: 90 Points
Needs at least 3 more years.
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7/1/2007 - the godfather wrote: 98 Points
Had next to 01 Landonne, at times each was better than the other. What a joy to see these wines battle it out. Just about as impressive as syrah can be.
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6/16/2007 - KellyW wrote: 97 Points
Dinner with Eric Solomon and Daphne Glorian. The nose on this wine was just extraordinary. It did not have a big bacon-fat thing going on but it was intensely floral and exotic. Wild berries and Asian spice. Wish I had more of this in the cellar. I cried leaving half a glass on the table but one can only imbibe so much.
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