Côte Rôtie, La Viaillère, 2018

Exquisitely pretty, small ripe strawberry fruit intertwined with velvety cashmere tannins that coat the palate. Open, engaging and fruit-driven flavours, ripe touches of griotte and kirsch, that not only seduce at first approach but also prove to be remarkably persistent. Now that Clusel-Roch's vineyards are 32-years-old they are starting to produce outstanding wine and as such Clusel Roch decided, as of the 2009 vintage, to bottle it up as a separate cuvée. The bottom of the slope still goes into the main Cote Rotie blend. Aged for around 16 months in a maximum of 15% new oak.