Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie Blonde Vintage:2017 concentrated dream liquid fills your

concentrated dream liquid fills your mouth and coats your palate while mesmerizing your senses for at least 60 seconds

Made after very long ageing in different oak vats and barrels

This is one wine where I have encountered better bottles

The exuberant 2007 Hermitage Blanc reveals notes of petroleum

The old vines are very much apparent as this velvety yet very serious effort displays excellent power and like many of these Gevrey grands crus

Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie Blonde Vintage:2017 concentrated dream liquid fills yourThe most tannic of the "big three" bottlings this year, the 2018 Cote Rotie la Cote Blonde features elegant hints of mixed herbs entwined around bold boysenberry fruit. It's medium to full bodied, with plentiful fine grained tannins that firm up on the long finish. Embryonic, but oh so promising, it should blossom in another five years or so.