2005 Alexandre Rochette & Cie Côte-Rôtie

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  11/20/2013 - suarezd wrote: 88 Points

  Nose of perfume, bell pepper, sweet and tart red fruits. Tart fruits, baking spice, and fat on the palate. Still has prominent tannins and acidity. Decent wine but not great.

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  12/16/2012 - Chomsky wrote:

  I picked this up on a lark from winebid. Montesquieu, the company that makes this Cote-Rotie, is a US negociant operation that private labels wines from around the world and sells them for laughably high prices. This wine, which originally could only have been purchased directly from Montiesquieu, retailed at $155 a bottle. That's right, $155. I actually called them and verified this myself. (The Hermitage was $190!) The vineyard source(s) of the grapes that made this wine is unclear, but the wine was apparently made by the chief winemaker at Chapoutier.
  
  As for the wine itself... well, it's Syrah. It's clearly seen new oak, and is ripe and powerful, with a dense core of dark red fruit and some of the grape's characteristic bloody tang. It's big and a bit blocky and needs a fair amount of air for it to open up. The wine's not bad per se, but it's unrecognizable as Cote-Rotie, or even from the Northern Rhone, and (perhaps without saying) not even close to justifying its initial price tag. And after five hours in the decanter, it's feeling fatigued and flat. (I can't wait to see what the one bottle of the Hermitage I got is like.)

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