Gangloff La Barbarine AOC Cote Rotie 2007   

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About

This is Gangloff's young Syrah vine Cuvee, with a bit of Viognier, grown in the Cote Blonde of Cote Rotie.  With beautiful pure Syrah fruit, all blackberry, earth, black pepper and black coffee, it's on the elegant side of classic Cote Rotie.  Drink this up to 5 years, then drink Sereine Noire.

Tasting notes

This has richly perfumed aromas of cassis, pepper, date, earth, coffee and black fruit confit.  The palate is elegant and refreshing with gently astringent tannins, thus good with food.  It's long and complete.

Vintage Notes

2007 has been celebrated as a vintage of a lifetime in the Southern Rhone.  It was also superb in the Northern Rhone and the wines have unusual richness and volume.  The key was the long, warm and dry autumn which brought about perfect ripeness.

Grapes

92% Syrah, 8 % Viognier

Vine age

5-20 year old

Vineyards

On steep granite hillsides in the southern sector of Cote Rotie at Tupin, Mollard and Combard.  This is the "Cote Blonde" so named after the granite soil, which gives a more elegant, lighter, finessed wine than the schist in the "Cote Brune".

Yield

38 hl/ha

Harvest

By hand between 30 September and 6 October

Winemaking

100% destemmed, fermented in stainless steel tank, using natural yeasts and very low use of SO2

Maturation

23 months in new and 2 to 4 year old oak barriques

Bottling

Unfiltered and unfined. Bottled September 2009. 8,000 bottles (650 cases)