2016 CÔTE RÔTIE Les Grandes Places Domaine Clusel-Roch, Lea & Sandeman

CÔTE RÔTIE

2016 Les Grandes Places Domaine Clusel-Roch

Grapes Viognier, Syrah
Colour Red
Origin France, Rhône
District Northern Rhône
Village Côte Rôtie
ABV 13%
Vineyard Les Grandes Places

Inky purple. Explosively perfumed aromas of fresh blackberry, boysenberry, incense, licorice and smoky minerals. Deeply concentrated and alluringly sweet, offering palate-staining dark berry preserve, licorice candy, bitter chocolate and violet pastille flavors, along with a touch of exotic spices that emerges on the back half. Finishes broad, chewy and impressively long, with steadily building tannins and lingering florality. Drinking range: 2024 - 2033 Rating: 94 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Sept 2019)


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This has darker fruit with more modern spices and riper, darker, cherry and boysenberry character. The palate is very powerful, very defined and beautifully cast in terms of tannins. Dark-chocolate and black-cherry-liqueur flavors at the finish. A terraced plot, high up on the slope. 30 per cent whole cluster fermentation. Pure syrah with no viognier. Try in 2024. Rating: 94-95 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Aug 2018)

From old vines (80 to 90 years old), the 2016 Cote Rotie les Grandes Places is maturing in 25% new oak. It offers up hints of toasted almond, cherry and espresso. It's a more muscular wine than the Vialliere, yet it still retains an inherent sense of lightness and elegance. Drinking range: 2022 - 2035 Rating: 90-94 Joe Czerwinski, www.robertparker.com (Dec 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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