Clusel Roch

Côte Rôtie, Les Grandes Places, 2014

Name: Côte Rôtie, Les Grandes Places
Brand: Clusel Roch
Price: 981.88 GBP

92+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

Vinous

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2014
75cl
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2014
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2014
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A great Grandes Places, a vineyard that seems tailor-made for this vintage. The vineyard's complexity comes shining through in this 2014, whilst the open fruitiness of the vintage softens this cuvées typical austerity in youth. Elegant but gripping and intense. Brilliant, haunting flavours of cool, crunchy, red berry fruit with notes of cherry, damson, herb and salt. Bright, focused and energetic but with a great deal of charm, too. Grandes Places is a fabulous, single vineyard in the Verenay commune planted with 75-year-old ‘Serrine’ vines, which is the traditional Syrah of Ampuis. The wine is aged for 24 months in 30% new oak and is bottled without filtration.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Dark purple. Highly expressive blackberry, potpourri and licorice aromas show outstanding clarity and minerally lift. Palate-staining, expansive dark berry, floral pastille and fruitcake flavors are firmed by a spine of juicy minerality that adds back-end cut. Gains energy on the impressively persistent finish, which repeats the dark berry quality and leaves a vibrant echo of minerality behind.

drinking window 2022 - 2029

date of review 07/2017

92+/100

Jeb Dunnuck,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Showing the minerality and masculine character that's the hallmark of this site, the 2014 Cote Rotie les Grandes Places is medium-bodied, rich, firm and structured, with lots of black fruits, crushed rocks and pepper. It is the most backward and reserved of the three Cote Roties, so give bottles 3-4 years and enjoy over the following decade.

drinking window 2019 - 2030

date of review 12/2016

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