Julien Barge Cote Rotie Cote Blonde 2016
Tasting Note
'The 2016 Côte Blonde from the Barge family estate is a stellar bottle in the making, with a bit more mid-palate depth and overt muscle than the very, very good Cuvée de Plessy, but still with the traditional refinement of this great lieu à dit. This wine is still youthfully reserved, but already there is a perfumed expressiveness in the nose here that forecasts great things in the years to come. The nose offers up scents of black raspberries, plums, gamebird, pepper, a hint of black olive, a beautifully complex base of soil and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, pure, full-bodied and just gorgeous, with lovely intensity of flavor, a potentially velvety palate impression in due course, fine-grained tannins and a long, reserved and brilliantly balanced finish. Like all the 2016s chez Barge, this is tightly-knit out of the blocks and needs bottle age, but it is will be stunning when it is really ready to drink.'
94/100 John Gilman
94/100 John Gilman
Specifications for Julien Barge Cote Rotie Cote Blonde 2016
| Region | Rhone |
| Sub-region | Cote Rotie |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Size (Volume) | Bottle |
| Bond Status | In Bond |