1985 Gentaz-Dervieux Côte-Rôtie Cuvée Réservée Côte Brune

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 95.2 points

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  2/14/2021 - bill00 wrote: 98 Points

  Benchmark Cote-Rotie. Fantastic aromatics. Smoke and olive. Silky smooth and easy-going. This wine may have truly peaked some time ago as a bottle at the Rare Wine Co. Gentaz dinner back in 2013 was pretty much perfect, but it remains beautiful and thrilling today.

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  8/29/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Sweet soil tones and spice notes. Beautiful bottle.

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  11/8/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Really great red fruits. More moderate spices. Given the age this was more mellow than some of the other Gentaz. Still very fresh and clean with classic Gentaz notes.

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  11/6/2018 - MC2 Wines wrote: 94 Points

  Unicorn Rhones (aka a taste-off btwn Verset and Gentaz with a few bonuses) (Momofuku Ko): Similar to the '85 Verset this also started a bit more quiet and closed. It was a wine I left for prob an hour before it started to really open up. Overshadowed by the '83 which was one of the great ones I thought. This is similar in profile - some animal notes, lots of lavendar, a bit of the sweeter black fruits. Perhaps not quite as 'airy' as some of the other vintages. Still quite tasty.

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  8/4/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Getting late in the night and a lot of wines. This was soft and nuanced. Supple texture. All the classic N Rhone note of lamb, grilled meat, campfire, smoke, embers and charcoal. Loved this tonight.

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