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1996 Côte-Rôtie

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côte Rôtie

Northern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah/Shiraz

Vintages
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After a number of cellar visits in Cote-Rotie, I asked one vigneron if he could name anyone in the appellation who made a better wine from the higher-acid vintage of '96 than from the generally richer, riper harvest of '97. He singled out Bernard Burgaud, and my tastings accord with this judgment. And yet Burgaud is the first to admit that he usually makes Cote-Rotie with higher acidity than the wines of his neighbors, a tendency one might easily think would give him a particularly severe wine in '96 and a relatively fresh one in '97. Go figure. Burgaud dropped crop repeatedly in '96 to keep his ultimate yield to 38 hectoliters per hectare; the yield in '97 was 39 h/h. (Alain Junguenet/Wines of France, Mountainside, NJ; Martine Wines, San Rafael, CA; Europvin/Christopher Cannan Selections, Watertown, MA)