2016 Côte-Rôtie
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Louis Barruol’s passion for Syrah, specifically in its original iteration, Serine, is palpable, as anybody who has had the chance to discuss the subject and taste the wine with him will attest. Barruol set up this négociant operation back in 2000 and has been sourcing fruit from a consistent set of growers in the north ever since. Sadly, the piece of the Nève lieu-dit, which sits high up in the Côte-Brune sector of Côte-Rôtie and with which he has worked since the beginning, was recently sold, so it’s back to the drawing board to find a new source of fruit. “That’s going to be really hard,” he told me. “I love that site but because so many of the best vineyards of the small farmers have been bought by domaines or large wineries, that leaves small négociants, like me, out in the cold.” I found both the 2015 and 2016 vintages to be quite successful for Barruol, who noted that they “couldn’t be more different. With 2015 you have power, broad shoulders and structure and with 2016 you have energy, you have more detail. It’s more of a terroir vintage for now.” While Barruol is confident that the 2016s will age well “with no worries,” he thinks that the 2015s “are just wines to forget for now and for a while. They are beasts.”
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