Côte-Rôtie "Le Gallet Blanc"

François Villard
France
Rhône
2020

100% Syrah from Ampuis and Saint-Cyr, with an “emphasis on the schist areas from the Brune up towards Verenay” (Livingstone-Learmonth, Wines of the Northern Rhône). Eighty-eight percent whole cluster, macerated for twelve days in stainless steel and wood vats. Aged eighteen months in twenty percent new, eighty percent two- to four-year-old oak barrels. 

95 points
"Deep, bright-rimmed purple. Expressive, mineral-accented cherry and dark berry preserves, exotic spice and incense scents show sharp definition and pick up hints of violet and olive paste with aeration. Seamless and broad on the palate, offering intense cherry-cola, boysenberry, fruitcake and licorice flavors that steadily firm up on the back half. Echoes the blue fruit note on an impressively persistent, spicy finish that features polished tannins and building florality. Two-thirds whole clusters and 50% new oak. "
Josh Reynolds ,
Vinous Media
December 2022
94 points
"A gorgeous wine, with salty, sappy black licorice infusing a base of plum and brambly fruit, while warm earth and other savory components -- toasted anise, red tea, iron shavings -- move in. Long and stylish, this is well-framed by cashmere tannins holding everything together. Drink now through 2035. "
Kristen Bieler,
Wine Spectator
May 2023

SKU/Code: 
DB3114-20
Product Line: 
National Portfolio
Wine
Red
Farming Type: 
Sustainable