Maison Tardieu-Laurent Côte-Rôtie

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This Cuvée will also demand patience before revealing its full potential !
The vintage

Understanding and succeeding this vintage required, indeed, presence in the Vineyard, careful work, experience, and even, clearly, a genuine expertise...
Winter temperatures amongst the mildest in the decade, rainfall amounts amongst the highest ever in winter, among the lowest ever in spring, and a nice output of grapes throughout the Rhone cépages : everything would raise hope of an early vintage, the ever expected Vintage, satisfactory both in terms of quantity and of quality ! But it was not counting on an unusually cool and rainy summer... Vignerons are soon confronted with quite a few difficulties, the trickiest one being the management of diseases…
The first three weeks of September revive the vintage... September, the month of wine !
2014 demanded, especially during the final weeks, hard, incessant work. The vines were in demand. It was crucial to understand, to be able to anticipate...This required a bit of wisdom, reason, intuition...
A vintage for Vignerons, indeed. And the best ones did perform with talent.
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They are now rewarded. As for the others, alas... There, is the whole difference

Terroir

Landonne, Chavaroche, Rozier, les Rochains.

Type of soil

Schists.

Ageing

12 months in new and one vintage barrels. Tronçais et Allier. Then 12 months in foudre.

Serving

16°C
Decant 2 hours before tasting.

Tasting

Long, suave, charming, very feminine for a 100% Côte Brune...

Alcohol content

12,5%

Bottling

Without fining and filtration.

Cépages

Serine
Syrah

Mid crimson. Very fresh and energetic on the nose. Solid and very appetising. Bone dry – much less sweet than many of the wines from this producer in 2014. Racy and transparent. Proper classic Côte Rôtie. Relatively delicate but then Côte Rôtie should be!

Jancis Robinson , 17/20 , 2015-10-30

(made from fruit grown in La Landonne, Chavaroche, Rochains and Côte Rozier): Brilliant violet. Fresh cherry and blueberry scents are brightened and lifted by suggestions of smoky minerals and fresh flowers. Fleshy but impressively vibrant on the palate, offering spice-accented dark berry and violet pastille flavors and a hint of candied licorice. Lively, sharply focused and gently sweet on the impressively persistent finish, which features silky tannins and a resonating dark berry quality.

Josh Raynolds
Vinous , 92-94/100 , 2016-02-01

Entre élégance naturelle, finesse de grain et parfaite lecture de leurs appellations respectives, les vins présentés confortent notre idée selon laquelle il s'écrit ici un hommage aux grands vins du Rhône.

Guide Bettane et Desseauve des vins de France 2017 , 17,5/20 , 2016-09-01

Une pure merveille d'équilibre et de précision aromatique. La finesse de grain accompagne une trame serrée, un fruit épuré et intense.

Guide RVF 2017 , 17,5/20 , 2016-09-01