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2017 Côte-Rôtie Fongeant

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côte Rôtie

Northern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah

Vintages
2019201820172016
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2024 - 2034

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Given his long stint in Burgundy, it’s no surprise that Pierre-Jean Villa’s winemaking style runs to the elegant, even in hot vintages. His 2017s are a fine case in point, as they definitely do not behave as one might expect from a dry, incessantly hot year, showing fine detail and energy and the balance to age. The wines here, sourced from Villa’s 14 hectares of vines, are made to reflect the personality of the vintage, with up to 100% whole clusters for the Côte-Rôtie Fongeant, and raised in mostly neutral barrels, with about 10% being renewed each year.

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One of the great under-sung producers in the northern Rhône, Pierre-Jean Villa has been steadily increasing the quality of his wines since departing Les Vins de Vienne, where he was a partner and chief winemaker from 2003 until 2009. His wines show complex bouquets and a lot of forward fruit and rounded texture straight out of the blocks, especially in 2017. Villa’s 2016s might be the best set of wines that I have ever tasted from him, and their balance will help them enjoy long, graceful aging curves.