2011 Côte-Rôtie

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côte Rôtie

Northern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah/Shiraz

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Burgaud told me that he prefers his 2011 Cote-Rotie to his 2012 and that he also favors his 2010 over his 2009."The '12 and '09 have richness and power but the '11 and '10 are wines of finesse, which is more my style," he said.He finds the '12s opulent and expressive "but maybe missing some of the classic elegance of Cote-Rotie," a character that he finds in spades with the earlier vintage.Two thousand eleven gave Burgaud "a healthy yield and lots of time to pick," which also gave his workers the freedom to make careful, unhurried selections in the vineyards.Burgaud believes that the key to success in the '11 vintage was whether you picked before or after the rain, "because acid levels didn't drop precipitously after the storms but sugar levels continued to rise."That said, he thinks that 2011, overall, will probably be discounted by the market, figuratively as well as literally, because "you can't follow vintages like 2009 and 2010 without people being overly critical.There's no ability to accept three really good vintages in a row."

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"A precocious vintage" is how Bernard Burgaud succinctly described 2011 for Cote-Rotie, later expanding on the thought to add that "the wines are already delicious but they have good length, which suggests that they will also age better than some think."He calls 2010a "completely singular vintage, with concentration but also charm."He said that he considers it to be "even better than 2005," the vintage that he considered to be the apex of his own winemaking until '10 came along.I find recent wines here to be far sexier, fruitier and more approachable than those of the past, but they're not at all lacking for structure.There's more sweetness, floral character and silkiness of texture to the wines today than in, say, the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Burgaud's wines often displayed dryish, gritty tannins and, often, distinctly sauvage character.Burgaud attributes this to "more mature vines and, hopefully, more personal maturity and experience as a winemaker," adding that he hasn't make a conscious style shift except for "perhaps trying to make the fruit come through the tannins a little earlier than in the past, but not to make wines that you drink right after bottling."