Cart 2003 E. Guigal Cote Rotie La Mouline
Average Price: $599.99 
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| Style: | Red Wine |
| Grape Type: | Syrah/Shiraz |
| Region: | Rhone |
About E. Guigal
The locomotive of the northern Rhône Valley, Guigal is by a wide margin the largest producer of Côte-Rôtie. Guigal's limited and costly single-vineyard "La-La" wines -- La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque -- are among the most coveted red wines in the world, with extraordinary a... more
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Saturated ruby. Superripe dark berry and cherry aromas, with an intense violet accent and a hint of minerals. Remarkably dense and packed with cherry and dark berry flavors, but with an energetic lift of acidity arriving on the back. Gets sweeter with air, taking on wild strawberry and raspberry qualities. Finishes with fine, dusty tannins and a fresh kick of raspberry. These 2003s are slated to be bottled in February of 2007.
Saturated ruby. Superripe aromas of liqueur-like black raspberry, smoked meat and roasted nuts. A wine of incredible confectionery sweetness, density and depth, and atypically large-scaled and glyceral for La Mouline. To suggest it lacks elegance may be quibbling. There's powerful underlying structure here and a deep chocolatey ripeness on the finish, which features major but thoroughly ripe tannins and great breadth. Philippe Guigal noted that the '03s finished even drier than the '02s and '01s, at less than one gram per liter of residual sugar. So the extraordinary sweetness of these wines simply reflects the freakish ripeness of the fruit.
Deep ruby. Rich and warm on the nose, with deep blackberry and cassis aromas tinged by pungent fresh flowers and graphite. Suave and silky on the palate, the fruit tones turning more red, more crisp and focused. Offers impressive inner-mouth floral perfume. Taut and minerally through the very long, pure finish, with persistent, concentrated but thoroughly elegant raspberry and bitter cherry flavors.
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