Wine Advisor
Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie Ampodium 2014
Description
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck
What should be an outstanding wine, the 2014 Cote Rotie Ampodium is a medium-bodied, classically styled and elegant Cote Rotie that offers plenty of both red and black fruits, spring flowers, and toasted spice characteristics on the nose and palate. Possessing both good concentration and notable acidity, it should benefit from short term cellaring and drink well for a decade.
Reviewed by: Josh Raynolds
Youthful violet. Vibrant, spice- and mineral-laced black and blue fruit scents show excellent focus and pick up suggestions of cola and violet with air. Sappy, concentrated and pure, offering juicy blueberry and boysenberry flavors firmed by a spine of tangy acidity. Blends power and vivacity with a deft hand and finishes very long and minerally, with supple tannins building steadily and in harmony with the wine's fruit. All of the fruit from Rostaing's Côte Blonde and La Landonne holdings are in this bottling this vintage.
About the Producer
Rene Rostaing is quite famous in the Cote-Rotie area of the North Rhone. In 1971, there were only 0.47 hectares of vineyards, distributed in Cote Blonde and La Landonne. After inheritance and harvesting in recent years, the winery's vineyards have reached 6 hectares, and he also has 0.2 hectares of vineyards in Condrieu. The winery has introduced high-tech equipment in recent years, which can automatically stir and mix the grapes and grape skins. The soaking time can be as long as three weeks, which is longer than the average winery time, and the temperature is automatically raised to about 37 degrees, allowing the grape juice to absorb For more grape color and tannin, filtering before bottling depends on the quality of the wine of the year. If the winery believes that the safety is sufficient, the filtering action will not be carried out. Rostaing's general-grade Cote-Rotie and Cote Blonde are completely de-stemmed, while La Landonne is 50% de-stemmed. In theory, the wine is stronger and more resistant to aging and has more tannins. This winery produces five wines, basically Cuvee La Landonne is the best product of the winery, containing three vineyards, using 100% Syrah; next is the Cuvee Cote Blonde, containing two vineyards, which contains The 75-year-old vine is mainly made of Syrah, with a small proportion of Viognier added; in 1990, the owner inherited 3.5 hectares of vineyards from his father-in-law Albert Dervieux-Thaize, and later the wine was La Viailliere; The winery's general-grade wine, Cuvee Classique, is a blend of grapes from the three Cuvee plots above, mainly La Viaillere. The wine label only shows Cotie-Rotie without the Cuvee name, and uses 100% Syrah; in addition, in the Condrieu area, it is Liquor with the name of La Bonette, brewed by Viognier, with an annual output of about 160 cases, is not easy to find in Taiwan. The winery has two other VdP wines: Les Lezardes Syrah and Les Lezardes Viognier The owner also has Domaine de Puech Chaud in the Languedoc area of southern France. It produces one red and one white. The red wine is made with 80% Syrah. I am very interested to try it out and see how to use the exquisite technique of the Beilong winery. Brutal Syrah grapes from Xunhua South France.
