Tasting Notes
JancisRobinson.com 16.5
Cask sample. Smoke, toast, black cherry, smooth and fine-grained. Plenty of impressive polish. The oak makes itself felt. (RH)
Anticipated maturity: 2019-2026
Robert Parker 91
Gerin’s 2016 Cote Rotie les Grandes Places comes from Syrah vines planted between 1924 and 1960. Raised in all-new pieces de Bourgogne, it’s woody, like the other wines at this address, but it also has the most stuffing and potential. Baking spices and tarry notes mark the nose, while the full-bodied palate comes across as plummy and open, perhaps a bit coarse, with dry wood tannins on the finish. If those successfully integrate—or if you enjoy a bit more oak in your Cote Rotie than I do—my rating may look stingy.
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2030
Vinous 95
Vivid purple. Sexy, deeply perfumed aromas of dark fruit preserves, exotic spices, smoky minerals, peony and olive paste. Densely packed and alluringly sweet, offering deeply concentrated blackberry, bitter cherry, floral and spicecake flavors that show superb delineation and a spine of juicy acidity. Shows excellent clarity and minerally lift on the chewy, strikingly persistent finish, which eventually leaves behind cherry liqueur and floral notes.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2035