Côte Rôtie, La Viaillère
Clusel Roch

Côte Rôtie, La Viaillère, 2021


Destination

vintage


portfolio

Portfolio
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2021

75cl

DP

£79.40


2021

6x75cl

DP

£476.42


2021

3x1.5L

DP

£488.42



Clusel Roch, Côte Rôtie, La Viaillère, 2021

2021

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Clusel Roch, Côte Rôtie, La Viaillère, 2021

A vineyard of high repute and enormous charm, the 2021 Viallière is aromatic and intricate, balancing the most gorgeous, high-toned aromas with a charge of small, pixelated, sweet red fruits in the middle of the palate. Suave but never blowsy, this is a steep well-ripening site with lots of stones in the soil. Clusel-Roch decided, as of the 2009 vintage, to bottle this up as a separate cuvée, when their vines had reached 32 years old and were producing outstanding wines. From a mid-slope parcel with a south, south-east facing aspect. The parcel located at the bottom of the slope still goes into the main Côte Rôtie blend. Aged for around 16 months in a maximum of 15% new oak.

ABV:
13.5%

specifications

country:
France

region:
Rhone

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Producer:
Clusel Roch

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Allergen Information:
This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.


Clusel Roch

Clusel Roch

This small artisanal Domaine, run by Brigitte Roch, Gilbert Clusel and their son Guillaume, only employs organic methods to work its vineyards and for some time have consistently had some of the lowest yields in the region. Such low yields and excellent vineyard sites help to produce excellent wines that are made in a gentle, pure and refined style. There is little new oak; depending on the vintage a large proportion of whole bunches may be included in fermentations and extractions are soft resulting in elegant, refined and characterful Côte Rôtie that age seamlessly. The standard cuvée is aged in one- and two-year-old barriques for a year, whilst wine from the old vines of Les Grandes Places require ageing in a proportion of new oak barriques, rarely more than 30-40%.

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