A good wine from a great vintage. Plush and mature, smoked raspberries. Not profound like Clusel-Roch’s Grandes Places, but easy to drink and well-balanced.
SY (11/02)
Posts Tagged ‘Rhone’
1991 Clusel-Roch Côte-Rôtie
Saturday, May 9th, 20091999 Allemand Cornas “Chaillots”
Saturday, May 9th, 2009This was served out of a decanter a day or two after being opened. Like its stablemate Renards, it’s so brutally closed up and tannic as to be undrinkable at this point. Just lose it in the cellar for 10-15 years or so.
SY (11/02)
1990 Ferraton Hermitage “Miaux”
Saturday, May 9th, 2009It was a great privilege to drink the single best bottle of ‘90 Ferraton Hermitage “Miaux” I’ve ever had. Big and dense, oozing the herby, rocky scents and flavors of Hermitage- clearly, the Meal and Beaumes vineyards give this character. The finish pushes blueberries and flowers up the back of my nose. Stellar, a true Triple Curly.
SY (9/01)
1999 Eric Texier Côte-Rôtie “Vieilles Vignes”
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Eric Texier’s ‘99 Côte-Rôtie “Vieilles Vignes”, made from Gilles Remiller’s holdings, is uncompromised old-school. Rich, brooding, rustic, and volatile, streaks of nascent brett- excellent wine for those traditionalists among us.
SY (9/01)
1995 Fonsalette Cotes-du-Rhône
Sunday, April 12th, 2009The ‘95 Chateau de Fonsalette Cotes-du-Rhône is a black cherry bomb of scary intensity. Though track record would suggest that it will develop well for the next 10-20 years, it’s such a little slut-wine now that my Lolita-loving side can’t resist; my remaining bottles can count their lives in months, not decades.
SY (8/01)