Jenn Ingle

9.0

Nose - lilacs, soil, clay amphora and erasers! (Haha) Flavors - cranberry and tart blueberries. Mouthfeel - a bit sharp and acidic with a semi dry finish some tannins but not too much. Look - gorgeous garnet color. Food - went sooo very well with the lamb my hubs made. — 2 months ago

with Jay

Marlos Silva

9.0

Simples mas muito bem feito e prazeroso — 2 years ago

Sagee Aran

9.0

2014 vintage. Black olive and earthy aromas with some violet floral, tannins are round with cassis on the palate. Some mild cigar box notes after a couple of hours. — 6 years ago

Kenta Hayashi

9.2

An elegant Burgundian Rhone. Blackberries, currants, plums and definitely olives. Very airy and just wished the finish was longer. A delicate Cornas. — 8 years ago

Rebecca Markarian

9.3

Good stuff — 10 years ago

Bradley Brown

Owner/Winemaker Big Basin Vineyards

9.2

Savory classic Cornas, aging great — 11 years ago

Pierre-nicolas Chabanel

9.0

2013 vintage
With Maman in Annecy, September 2015 — 11 years ago

Erica

8.9

I liked the wine but the 70 degree weather didn’t feel as warm as I hoped — 4 months ago

Chris Buggy

8.9

I have to agree with @romo - it is indeed funky, savory and divisive. I enjoyed, @Jennifer Jenkins did not — 2 years ago

with Jennifer

Peter Lachman

9.3

Great deep dark black fruit — 6 years ago

Ella Grace Downs

9.0

Complex but easy drinking — 8 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

9.6

Cool label, but can you explain what the hell "sérine" is? Apparently it's some tight clustered Syrah clone that's both "highly precise" and "vulnerable to disease". Sounds risky... Especially considering this comes from the frighteningly steep terraces of Cote Rotie. Not only that, but the wines were made without new oak or sulfur. He also picks early and uses some amount of carbonic maceration. Jean Michel Stephan uses to work for Guigal, but I guess he must of learned "what not to do" instead of mimicking the style.

The intensity is beyond belief! Cote Rotie is already aromatic, but this is amplified by the carbonic quality. Further, there's a large amount of Viognier here too, which lends a bright tropical punch in the midst of classic Syrah notes (tapenade? meatiness?). There's some similarity to the Matthieu Barret Cornas I just drank, but this has far more clarity in the aromatics - a quality both important and underrated. So striking here are the aromatics, it's hard to even move on to actually tasting the wine - but once you do, it surprises again.

This wine's balance is very strange... No oak, but the high acidity is tapered by carbonic maceration. It's soft, but lean at the same time. There's a slight oily texture which might be from the Viognier, but it's counter balanced by an amazing display of fresh fruit. Raspberry, pear, black cherry, and even pineapple. From the nose to the mid palate it's an exhilarating wine., but the finish is noticeably abrupt. The tannins are tart and bitter like the skin of an under ripe plum. Aesthetically it works. From the nose all the way into the mid palate, this wine is so "over-the-top" that a sudden, unexpected bitterness comes across as a moment of clarity instead of disappointment.

I highly recommend the wine. I hope to taste other vintages and bottlings.

#syrah #naturalwine #coterotie #northernrhone #jeanmichelstephan #syrah #biodynamic #rhone #northernrhone #rhonevalley — 8 years ago

Ania Et Samir FBY

9.9

A l'oiseau sans tête — 13 years ago

Serge Mismetti

9.5

Cuvée ogre — 6 months ago

Ted

9.2

Black olives. Bacon fat. Hints of black licorice. Herbal. This is all over the place. — 7 months ago

with Jeni

Brandon Boesch

9.4

This wine is expressive. I read a kids book series called “a year in brambly hedge” to my children and this tastes like the pictures of mushrooms, blackberries, cherries, in their stores under the hedge. There’s also a game/olive component in the background. I like it! — 4 years ago

Jonas Palmqvist

9.2

Very big and interesting on the nose, sometimes fruity, sometimes bloody and meaty. Elegant in the mouth with some initial dark fruit until the savoury elements take over for a long finish. — 7 years ago

Jeremy Wong

9.0

Drank on 7 Apr 2017 in HK @ Serge et le Phoque. Floral nose and long lasting — 9 years ago

Logan Brooks

9.0

Let it open and enjoy! — 10 years ago

Gottfried Benn

9.0

Blackberries, Black currant, laurel and black olives. Very nice wine. — 11 years ago