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Joël Champet Côte Rôtie "La Vialliere"(2005)
- Winery:
- Joel Champet
- Varietal:
- Region:
- France > Rhône > Northern Rhône > Côte-rôtie
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- spices, stemmy, savory, fruits, soil, clay, gentle, classic, structure, leather
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836 370 - Gregory Dal Piaz
- New York, NY
- October 2008
- Shallow and floral at first with stemmy tones and a slight woodiness. Real herbaceous quality with a peppery edge, here almost smells like a bit of Cab franc made it’s way into the blend. This is lightish in the mouth with stemmy tannins and soft intensity but layers of leather, clay, savory meatiness and ripe fruits offer a gentle complexity. This has classic old school structure but seems as though it has yet to fully come together, a wine that strikes me as having great potential but not for todays consumption. 88pts
