Clusel Roch

Côte Rôtie, Les Schistes, 2019

Name: Côte Rôtie, Les Schistes
Brand: Clusel Roch
Price: 611.06 GBP

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Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Ripe, soft red fruit aromatics precede an intense palate dominated by loganberry and cherry, with a faint touch of bramble. Powerful yet composed, the ripe red berry-orientated fruit is bound by intense but voluptuous tannins. The sensual, engaging fruit crescendos across the palate into more arid, savoury overtones of herb, salt and sandalwood - adding a welcome complexity that offsets the richness of the kirsch note on the finish. A blend largely from the schist, south-east facing vineyards of the Verenay commune including the lower part of Viaillere, Champon and Le Plan. As ever a proportion of whole bunches have been used in fermentation, a little larger than normal given the ripeness of the crop - 50%. Ageing is in oak barriques for at least 15 months with less than 15% new wood.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Opaque magenta. Powerful, mineral-accented red and blue fruit preserve aromas are complemented by suggestions of licorice, succulent herbs and pipe tobacco. Sappy and penetrating on the palate, offering vibrant cherry and boysenberry, cracked pepper and fresh bay flavors that are underscored by a vein of juicy acidity. Smoothly blends depth and energy and finishes long and focused, with well-knit tannins and resonating spiciness.

drinking window 2025 - 2033

date of review 12/2022

91+/100

Joe Czerwinski,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Marked by striking aromas of licorice and violets set against a backdrop of black cherries, the 2019 Cote Rotie Les Schistes is the blended cuvee formerly known as "Classique." It's medium to full-bodied, taut and crisp, with a distinct tension between acidity and ripeness and a long, cinnamon and pepper-inflected finish. It should age well for a decade or more.

drinking window 2023 - 2035

date of review 01/2022

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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.