Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie Blonde other_regions A wine of pure and

A wine of pure and total pleasure

all wrapped in a solidly long and mouth coating finish

smoked meats and tilled soil with wafts of garrigue

thick and unctuous effort that's overflowing with notes of browned butter

a smectite soils probably gave Christian Moueix and Jean-Claude Berrouet a slight advantage given its propensity to retain moisture and prevent hydric stress

Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie Blonde other_regions A wine of pure andThe most tannic of the "big three" bottlings this year, the 2018 Cote Rotie la Cote Blonde features elegant hints of mixed herbs entwined around bold boysenberry fruit. It's medium to full bodied, with plentiful fine grained tannins that firm up on the long finish. Embryonic, but oh so promising, it should blossom in another five years or so.