The splendid 1997 Cote Rotie Les Grandes Places reveals an impressively saturated opaque purple color. The nose offers up gorgeous quantities of super-ripe black raspberries, blackberries, toasty oak, smoke, and pain grille. Expansive and full-bodied, with fabulous concentration, outstanding purity, and low acidity, this is a hedonistic, lush, heady, decadently styled Cote Rotie to consume over the next 12-15+ years.
Importers: New Castle Imports, Myrtle Beach, SC; tel. (803) 497-8625 and Langdon Shiverick, Cleveland, OH; tel. (216) 861-6800