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Wine Description
The Story
La Mouline is a steeply terraced amphitheater on the Côte Blonde, a shape that shelters the 2.5 acre site from the wind and acts as a heat trap. Soils are gneiss with lightly colored silicone containing limestone loess. The site is planted to 89% Syrah and 11% Viognier, with the two varieties picked together and co-fermented. This extra dose of Viognier gives La Mouline its telltale aromatic complexity and additional softness and roundness; ...
Wine Information
Parker 100 points: The 1991 La Mouline (408 cases produced) includes 8% Viognier in the blend. Sweet, expansive, and forward, it is as captivating and compelling as always. Not as super-concentrated as the 1988, 1989, and 1990, it is still a voluptuous, opulently textured wine that should drink well in its first 15 years of life.
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