2010 Côte-Rôtie Maison Rouge

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côte Rôtie

Northern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah/Shiraz

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Christine Vernay believes the 2012 white wines in the north benefited from early harvesting because it helped to preserve acidity that would have been lost due to the late-season warm weather--which, by contrast, helped push up the quality of the syrah. Growers who waited too long got greater ripeness but at the expense of freshness, she added, and those wines will need to be drunk young.Freshness is also the operative word for 2011 in Condrieu, she said, adding that the balance of the wines should ensure a graceful evolution in bottle. As I've noted before, the red wines here have been on a serious quality upswing in recent years.Vernay admitted that because she's by nature and nurture a white wine maker, her red wine path "goes the Burgundian way, toward finesse, not extraction." She thinks that syrah has a natural tendency toward wildness and that if one isn't careful "that can go even further, to rustic," which she wants to avoid like the plague.