René Rostaing

Côte Rôtie, Côte Brune, 2023

Name: Côte Rôtie, Côte Brune
Brand: René Rostaing
Price: 860 GBP

94-96/100

Vinous

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all 2016 2018 2023

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New Release
2023
6x75cl
EP
£860.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A wine that sings of dried flowers and herbs, leading into a pure, strict palate imbued with immense linear minerality. It unfurls to reveal dried cocoa and dark, sea-salted chocolate notes amidst a wash of fine grippy tannins. Cote Brune is a wine of enormous focus and length – a real 5-star wine. This comes from a parcel once owned by Marius Gentaz that René replanted in 1999. Perfectly situated between La Turque and the Brune from Jamet. It is not produced every year but according to the quality and suitability of the season. You don’t have the limestone you get in Cote Blonde, here, but a redder clay and schist soil giving broader-scale wines. Fermented with 100% whole bunches and aged in large demi-muid casks, a maximum of 10% of which are new.

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

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.

The Journey

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.

Further Reassurance

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.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

94-96/100

Nicolas Greinacher,

Vinous

The 2023 Côte-Rôtie Côte Brune is another standout from the talented Pierre Rostaing. Alluring black cherry, black plum, fresh violet, crushed rock, graphite and a flicker of licorice are all pushed forward on the nose. Neatly framed by ripe tannins, the medium- to full-bodied 2023 is meticulously structured on one hand, yet lets the intense aromatics shine equally strong. Stacked with substantial energy and concentration, the 2023 is utterly promising, even at this very early stage.

drinking window 2030 - 2040

date of review 01/2025

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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.