2019 CÔTE RÔTIE Les Grandes Places Domaine Clusel-Roch, Lea & Sandeman

CÔTE RÔTIE

2019 Les Grandes Places Domaine Clusel-Roch

Grapes Syrah
Colour Red
Origin France, Rhône
Other Certified Organic
District Northern Rhône
Village Côte Rôtie
ABV 14%
Vineyard Les Grandes Places

Glass-staining ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe dark fruits, baking spices, smoked meat and potpourri, accompanied by building olive and licorice notes. Sappy, sharply delineated blackberry, bitter cherry, licorice and espresso flavors turn sweeter with air and pick up a smoky mineral quality that adds support and back-end cut. Chewy and spicy on the impressively persistent finish, which shows excellent detail and gripping tannins. One-third whole clusters. Drinking range: 2027 - 2037 Rating: 96 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Dec 2022)


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Taken for a single hectare plot of 80-year-old vines in this famous lieu-dit, this wine spends 24 months in French oak barriques, 25% new. Very dark in the glass. Very full-bodied, great depth of fruit with velvety tannins. The acidity is quite low this year, the fruit and tannin very ripe and succulent. Long finish. A serious wine in a very ripe, opulent vintage. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: 94 Matt Walls, Decanter.com (Mar 2021)

100% Syrah. Organic. Partially destemmed grapes are fermented with indigenous yeasts. Two years’ ageing in 228-litre oak, 25% new. Barrel sample. Tasted blind. Savoury-infused nose with sandalwood, pepper and dark fruits. Rounded palate with very firm tannins that dominate at the moment but there is a lovely fruit core beneath this and a focused pure finish. Drinking range: 2023 - 2032 Rating: 17+ Alistair Cooper MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2020)

Smoke- and mineral-accented aromas of fresh dark berries, cherry cola and vanilla, along with a hint of olive in the background. Supple, broad and alluringly sweet, offering deeply concentrated black raspberry, cherry preserve, spicecake and violet pastille flavors and a report of smoky minerality on the back half. Shows superb energy and fine detail and reveals no rough edges. Finishes velvety, energetic and extremely long, displaying excellent focus, youthfully chewy tannins and lingering florality. Rating: 95-97 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (May 2020)

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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