Domaine Belle Crozes Hermitage Roche Pierre
Syrah from Northern Rhone
| Vintage: | 2016 |
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| Description: | Jd 94 jebdunnuck.com, December 2018 The flagship cuvée is the 2016 Crozes Hermitage Roche Pierre, which spent two years in 30% new French oak. It offers a layered, multi-dimensional, full-bodied texture as well as classic notes of plums, blackberries. The flagship cuvée is the 2016 Crozes Hermitage Roche Pierre, which spent two years in 30% new French oak. It offers a layered, multi-dimensional, full-bodied texture as well as classic notes of plums, blackberries, ground pepper, and incense. This complex beauty has subtle oak, a wealth of fruit, and terrific balance. Give bottles a year or two and enjoy over the following decade. Vn 94 Vinous, April 2020 Saturated ruby. Powerful, highly perfumed aromas of blueberry, cherry liqueur, olive, exotic spices and candied violet are complicated by a smoky mineral accent. Sappy, alluringly sweet and densely packed, offering. Saturated ruby. Powerful, highly perfumed aromas of blueberry, cherry liqueur, olive, exotic spices and candied violet are complicated by a smoky mineral accent. Sappy, alluringly sweet and densely packed, offering palate-staining dark fruit preserve, vanilla, spicecake and floral pastille flavors that become livelier as the wine stretches out. The floral and mineral notes repeat emphatically on a strikingly long, velvety finish framed by smooth, harmonious tannins. This wine is sourced from two small plots in Larnage that were planted between 70 and 80 years ago. One-third new oak. -- Josh Raynolds Wa 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, October 2018 93+ Bottled just a week before my visit, the 2016 Crozes Hermitage Roche Pierre (old-vine Syrah on granitic soils, aged close to two years in barrel) seemed a bit reticent and tight. Pencil shavings frame plummy fruit in. 93+ Bottled just a week before my visit, the 2016 Crozes Hermitage Roche Pierre (old-vine Syrah on granitic soils, aged close to two years in barrel) seemed a bit reticent and tight. Pencil shavings frame plummy fruit in this medium to full-bodied effort. The suave, fine-grained tannins come close to being silky in feel on the lingering finish. This is the rare Crozes-Hermitage that's capable of rivaling Hermitage itself. - Jc |
| Price: | $ 54.94 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from J. J. Buckley
| Address: |
7305 Edgewater Drive Suite D Oakland, CA 94621 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 888-859-4637 |
| Fax: | 510-632-5400 |
First added to 1000 Corks on July 1, 2020.
This product was inactivated May 29, 2021.
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