CÔTE RÔTIE
2019 Les Schistes Domaine Clusel-Roch
| Grapes | Viognier, Syrah |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Rhône |
| Other | Certified Organic |
| District | Northern Rhône |
| Village | Côte Rôtie |
| ABV | 14% |
Opaque magenta. Powerful, mineral-accented red and blue fruit preserve aromas are complemented by suggestions of licorice, succulent herbs and pipe tobacco. Sappy and penetrating on the palate, offering vibrant cherry and boysenberry, cracked pepper and fresh bay flavors that are underscored by a vein of juicy acidity. Smoothly blends depth and energy and finishes long and focused, with well-knit tannins and resonating spiciness. Drinking range: 2025 - 2033 Rating: 93 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Dec 2022)
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Lieux-dits La Viallière, Champon, Le Plomb and Montmain, aged for 12 months in barriques, 15% new. Lush, open, welcoming style, plenty of fruit and fairly loose knit tannins. Plenty of them. Just a little soft on the finish. Very pleasurable, drink young. Drinking range: 2021 - 2024 Rating: 92 Matt Walls, Decanter.com (Mar 2021)
96% Syrah, 4% Viognier. Organic. Partially destemmed grapes are fermented with indigenous yeasts. Two years’ ageing in 228-litre oak, 15% new. Barrel sample. Tasted blind. Bags of fruit here, showing sweet blackberry and violets with a meaty char. Wonderful pure fruit with floral-infused dark fruits and excellent acidity – fine sculpted tannins give great structure and the wine packs real concentration of fruit. Delicious. Drinking range: 2024 - 2032 Rating: 17.5+ Alistair Cooper MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2020)
Vibrant, mineral-accented blackberry, blueberry and violet aromas pick up a spicy topnote with air. Concentrated red and dark berry, olive and floral pastille flavors display sharp focus and energetic drive thanks to a spine of smoky minerality. Finishes very long and sappy, with persistent blue fruit and floral qualities, subtle tannins and lingering spiciness. Rating: 91-93 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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