2011 Xavier Gerard Côte-Rôtie

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90 points

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  2/2/2020 - kuumies wrote:

  Ripe, almost liquor-like blackberry fruit, wet leaves and olives on the nose. On the palate youthful and energetic more than anything with plentiful tangy dark fruit. Sort of sweetish when it comes to the fruit expression but still what I would call a savory wine. Very good acidity. No tertiary development but seems to be moving to the right direction. Probably peaking in 7-8 years.

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  9/2/2018 - 5laton wrote:

  Lovely for a bit, then it shut down completely.
  2nd half of the bottle (spent a week under a repour closure) was initially very tasty but also shutdown after about an hour.
  Not a great showing, if representative this seems a bad time to be opening these. Hold.

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  3/5/2018 - Rollerball wrote: 90 Points

  Tasting Northern Rhones with the Vingerons (Heirloom Cafe): Fruity bouquet, explosive at ease. Some nice heat, charcoal, bark, and very flirty fruit.

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  3/1/2017 - salil wrote: 88 Points

  A disappointing showing, after a very good bottle of this a couple of years ago. It's got pretty red fruit and florality on the nose, but doesn't have the depth or complexity I'd expect. The palate presence is a touch soft - it's very easy to drink, but feels a touch unstructured with little apparent tannin and just moderate acidity.

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  3/25/2016 - 5laton wrote:

  This was initially blocky with a graphite nose. With a couple of hours of air, it transformed into a very pure, fruit and earth driven syrah with minimal savory and no animale elements, but impressive minerality and depth. More Cedric Papette than Levet, and more Faury than Jamet, if that makes sense (hat tip: Zak). Comes across as perhaps very slightly carbonic, but no idea if that is correct. Overall it's interesting but not super pleasurable to drink at this stage, and I recommend to hold.

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