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  • Country ranking ?

    410
  • Producer ranking ?

    33
  • Decanting time

    5h
  • When to drink

    from 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Garlic Roasted Pork Shoulder

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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; ...

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Wine Information

Score: 100  The 2009 Cote Rotie La Mouline possesses off-the-charts richness. Like all the vintages, it comes from the Cote Blonde and is co-fermented with 11% Viognier. Its 13.5% alcohol is one of the highest in all the La Moulines made to date, which shows you that these wines are never that powerful. Extraordinary layers of concentration offer up notes of roasted coffee, sweet black cherries, black raspberries, blackberries, licorice and hi...

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

24 tasting notes

Tasting note

color

Medium, Purple and Bright

ending

Long, Flavorful and Vibrant

flavors

Meaty, Chocolate, Blackberry, Blackcurrant, Blueberry and Vanilla

nose

Youthful, Complex, Seductive and Refined

taste

Average in Acidity, High tannin, Well-structured, Perfectly balanced, Balanced, Youthful, Medium-bodied, Refined, Firm, Harmonious and Drying tannins

Verdict

Impressive and Sophisticated

Written Notes

CS A very early cask sample but Marcel could not resist letting me see this at the end of our tasting. ‘I’m attracted to it like a lover,’ he said, hovering over the cask with his wine thief, ‘usually La Mouline is untaste-able before January.’ Such richness! Yet such life. Racy and gorgeous already.

  • 96p

Very deep crimson in colour. Rich and beguiling aromas of blackberry, blueberry and dark plum, followed by signature exotic five spice, star anise, and sage, with underlying nuances of beef stock and dark cedar. Intense and layered, the complex palate bursts with a dense, pure core of sweet spiced plum and blackberry, coated by firm yet integrated, fine velvety tannins which draw away to an extraordinarily long finish and lingering flavours of dried, sweet spices.

  • 98p
Good looking normal size bottle. Colour is ruby red, and looking dark and bright. On the nose it is intense, complex, refined, seductive and generous. The taste is harmonious, elegant, refined, and average in acidity, full-bodied, with multi-dimensional, complex, well-structured and perfectly balanced structure. On the palate it is layered and has smoky, meaty, blackberry, chocolate and vanilla flavours. The finish is long, lingering, flavorful, vibrant and gentle. This wine is impressive. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 10-15 years and decant at least over 4h before tasting.
- (Tasting note created by Tb's AI)
  • 95p
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Origin

Côte-Rôtie, Rhône

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Investment potential

Very Good

Fake factory

Be Cautious

Glass time

2h

Drinking temperature

16

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