Winery - Côte Rotie
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
More Burgundian than Rhone, the wine has a powerful and deep nose of intense fruit aromas layered with black and green pepper aromas with hints of tar and a subtle but beguiling presence of lilacs; sweet and ripe in the mouth, powerful flavors but at the same time reigned in to maintain balance and composure; big red cherry core to this wine; intense and focused at the end that never allows your senses to stray far from the wine. (18.5/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Sweet, rich and deep nose, lots of black fruit aromas, tar, chocolate, licorice, blackberries, jammy and extracted; fresh fruit in the mouth; lots of jammy fruit, blackberries and currants; sweet and earthy; good spicy finish; peppery and quite focused with nicely balanced lemon flavored flourish at the end. (17/20)
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Côte Rotie Côte Rotie “Chateau d’Ampuis” Guigal - 1995
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Sweet and very ripe nose with thick, opaque aromas, intense, pepper and earth, chocolate, leather, smoke, citrus blossoms; sweet and ripe in the mouth with very rich fruit and spices; lemon and orange flavors mix with the more powerful black fruits; hot and tannic at the finish, diminishing some of the pleasure found in the early part of the palate; still too young to evaluate what it will mature into, but the structure is in place to be great. (18/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Deep and intense nose, powerful and rich, very intense fruit aromas, hints of smoke, Russian leather, complex; exotic herbs; full and complex, intense flavors, loads of black cherry and black fruit flavors, touch of bitter herbs, leather; lemon and other citrus fruit; spicy and complex; clear presence of tannins but balanced and soft, pure; very focused flavors; this is a terrific wine and is always a top contender in my book for the Northern Rhône. (19/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Hefty leathery aromas initiate the experience, followed by aromas of black cherries steeped in alcohol, with hints of smoke and licorice in the distance; deep and sweet in the mouth, rich, ripe, thick textures; good central core of citric acidity save the wine from clumsiness, and there is a subdued elegance in the wine that is a mark of its greatness; not yet ready to drink, the wine has not yet shed its initial thin citrus fruit shell; this would be fun to try about five years from now. (19/20)
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