CÔTE RÔTIE
2015 La Viallière Domaine Clusel-Roch
| Grapes | Viognier, Syrah |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Rhône |
| Other | Certified Organic |
| District | Northern Rhône |
| Village | Côte Rôtie |
| ABV | 13% |
| Vineyard | La Viallière |
Lurid violet. Highly expressive aromas of black raspberry and boysenberry, smoky minerals, candied licorice and olive carry exotic spice and mineral overtones. Densely packed and energetic on the palate, displaying silky texture and superb clarity to the candied black and blue fruit, floral pastille and spicecake flavors. Seamless and alluringly sweet on the strikingly persistent finish, which features a lively mineral quality that adds vivacity and precision. Drinking range: 2023 - 2031 Rating: 95 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Apr 2018)
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Vivid, with lovely energy throughout thanks to a light bramble edge amid the mix of black currant, raspberry and plum compote flavors. Light anise and black tea hints score the finish. Best from 2020 through 2031.— Drinking range: 2020 - 2031 Rating: 94 James Molesworth, The Wine Spectator (Feb 2018)
The 2015 Cote Rotie Vialliere combines haunting aromas and flavors of intense, super ripe cassis and plum with firm tannins and a dry, astringent finish. In the end, the fruit should prevail, but give this medium to full-bodied wine awhile in the cellar to round into form. Drinking range: 2025 - 2040 Rating: 95 Joe Czerwinski, www.robertparker.com (Dec 2017)
Opaque ruby. Expansive aromas of ripe blueberry, blackberry, incense and candied flowers are sharpened by cracked pepper and mineral flourishes. Sweet, seamless and concentrated in style, offering intense dark fruit liqueur and spicecake flavors and suggestions of licorice and olive that build with air. Lush and broad, in the style of the vintage, but there's very good structure here as well. Sneaky tannins shape the plush dark fruit on the extremely long, juicy finish. Rating: 93-95 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Apr 2017)
Domaine Clusel-Roch
From the 1950s to 1980 René and Josephine Clusel grew fruit and vegetables as well as grapes in Côte-Rôtie. Their son, Gilbert, with his wife Brigitte Roch, started to focus solely on the vineyards, and expanded the domaine a little.
Guillaume, Brigitte and Gilbert's son, joined the domaine in 2009 and is now in charge. He added significantly to the vineyard area, but mostly with the addition of Gamay in the Coteaux du Lyonnais. While the property is around 13 hectares, they still have only five hectares in Côte-Rôtie and just half a hectare in Condrieu. The vines are planted on terraces along the Côte-Rôtie, in the classic local style with two wooden stakes tied above each vine to help protect against the region's occasionally howling winds.
They were the first domaine to fully embrace organic practices and have been certified since 2002. They are a shining example of what can be achieved by hard work in the vineyards and truly artisan winemaking; their wines express the very best of this unique terroir up in the northern sector of Côte-Rôtie.
Les Schistes is the very approachable young cuvée from a selection of all plots, whilst the remaining cuvées are all single lieu dits. Annual production of Côte-Rôtie here still hovers at about 1250 cases per year. These are beautifully made wines with a very pure expression of place from this great region.
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