2016
75cl
DP
£98.40
vintage
portfolio
2016
75cl
DP
£98.40
2020
6x75cl
DP
£590.42
Broking
2016
6x75cl
DP
£529.22
A small parcel of 90 year old vines just under Grandes Places that was last made as a separate cuvée but Rostaing in 1995. Thanks to the quality and quantity of 2016 they have finally been able to make it again. Intense, floral dark and red berry flavours, notes of bramble, raspberry, violet and black cherry. Perfumed but structured, serious fresh and chiselled but with a certain style and class that gets more obvious the longer it is open. An exciting and welcome return!
René’s vineyard fervour, traditional whole bunch fermentation technique and favoured use of 600 litre demi-muid casks which don’t stamp too much wood flavour onto the wine, have for years resulted in some of the Côte Rôtie’s most intense, vital and sought-after wines. His son Pierre took the helm since the 2015 vintage and looks to be filling some qute big shoes. He has kept his father's style, 90-100% whole bunch ferment and less than 10% new oak ageing, whilst adding additional precision and intensity to the wines. The Cuvée Ampodium is a blend dominated by the produce of La Viaillère and Tupin that always shows a hallmark refinement and juiciness. His La Landonne is typically muscular and backward when young that after 8+ years develops into a whole spectrum of savoury meat and hedgerow fruit flavours. However, his flagship wine, Côte Blonde goes against the grain of the widespread clichés about the effeminacy and delicacy of Côte Blonde wines. Although it does benefit from the floral effects of the 2-3% Viognier added to the blend, its density and concentration requires a barrel maturation longer than the others and at least ten years bottle age is needed before it is approached. Chiselled and intense, it offers a saline chalk note to the brambly fruit. This has become one of the most respected estates in the region.
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