2019 Cote Rotie La Landonne
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Inky, bright-rimmed ruby. Smoky, mineral-accented cherry, blackberry and floral scents, along with building floral and olive nuances. Shows excellent clarity and heft to its juicy red and dark berry, fruitcake and licorice flavors, which are underscored by a vein of juicy acidity. Delivers a suave blend of depth and vivacity and finishes impressively long and smoky, with dusty tannins adding final grip. Made entirely with whole clusters.
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Alistair Cooper MW, jancisrobinson.com
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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Lastly, the 2019 Côte Rôtie La Landonne flirts with perfection and has a heavenly, textbook Landonne nose of smoked meats, woodsmoke, truffle, crushed stone, and assorted red and black fruits. It’s powerful yet opulent, with velvety tannins, a beautifully layered mouthfeel, and one hell of a great finish. Count yourself lucky if you’re able to latch onto any of these 2019s from Rostaing! This beauty will shine for 25-30 years if stored correctly.
After tasting Rostaing's 2019 Côte Brune, it would be difficult for any wine to measure up, but the 2019 Cote Rotie la Landonne comes darn close and is a more-than-acceptable second choice. Notes of violets and red raspberries lead the way on the nose, backed by the vineyard's signature roasted meat and black olives. Medium to full-bodied, incredibly concentrated and worthy of two decades of cellaring, yet not unapproachable even now, this is another suburb effort to emerge from Rostaing's magical vineyard holdings.