E. Guigal - Côte-Rôtie La Landonne 2018 (750ml)
Price: $550.00
Sale Price: $375.00
| Producer | E. Guigal |
| Country | France |
| Region | Rhone Valley |
| Subregion | Cote Rotie |
| Varietal | Rhone Blend |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Sku | 4856 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 98-100 Points
Subtle hints of fresh pea shoots accent characteristic dark notes of roasted meat espresso and black olives in the full-bodied 2018 Cote Rotie La Landonne. Rich concentrated and velvety-textured with ample length and plenty of ripe tannins on the finish it should benefit from a decade or more of bottle age?once it gets there. It's a brooding beast of a Cote Rotie that serious collectors will want to have in their cellars.
Jeb Dunnuck: 98+ Points
The 2018 Côte Rôtie La Landonne is a different beast as always. Inky black-hued with a monster of a nose revealing tons of smoked black fruits cured meats tobacco ground pepper and gr
Vinous: 98 Points
Vibrant purple. A deeply perfumed mineral-accented bouquet evokes ripe black and blue fruits potpourri incense and olive and a dusty mineral nuance gains power as the wine stretches out. Shows superb depth as well as energy on the palate offering gently sweet blackberry cherry preserve smoky bacon and fruitcake flavors that are supported by a core of juicy acidity. In a powerful yet vibrant style displaying sharp focus mounting tannins and a strikingly long floral- and smoke-tinged finish All whole clusters and 100% new oak. - By Josh Raynolds on December 2022 Guigal produces a staggering amount of wine some 5000000 bottles per year with their consistently excellent red white and pink Côtes-du-Rhônes making up just under half. The Côte-Rôtie Brune et Blonde usually hovers around a quarter-million bottles per vintage which makes it far and away the highest-production wine of the appellation. Perhaps even more impressive than those numbers is the constantly high quality of the wines up and down and across the line-up regardless of price. The pace is accelerating under the watch of Philippe Guigal (no his father Marcel hasn?t gone anywhere nor has his mother the omnipresent Bernadette). The domaine has been on an acquisition tear in the south buying up Domaine de Nalys and Les Clefs d?Or in Châteauneuf-du-Pape plus a good number of other vineyards in the appellation. Their most recent purchase was the legendary 98-hectare Château d?Aqueria in Tavel. It?s hard to keep up. As for recent releases it should come as no surprise that there is excellence throughout the current offerings which include multiple vintages. The Guigals are extremely cautious about keeping their numerous importers and private clients as happy as possible. The Hermitage and Saint-Joseph bottlings have been on a steep upward quality climb over the last decade and as for the Côte-Rôties they have unsurprisingly not missed a beat even with the recent hot vintages.
dDecanter: 95 Points
This is very full-bodied dense firm and muscular. There is an extremely deep weave of tannins that are massy and ripe alongside acidity that’s just on the low side. This La Landonne is never destemmed and in 2018 the stems had lignified which has resulted in slightly less pepper and herbal notes but still displays black olive and bay leaf. A thunder
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