2021
75cl
DP
£79.40
vintage
portfolio
2021
75cl
DP
£79.40
2021
6x75cl
DP
£476.42
2021
3x1.5L
DP
£488.42
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.
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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