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Score 92/100 · Drink 2026-2050, Neal Martin, Mar 2023

The 1997 Côte-Rôtie La Turque from Etienne Guigal offers high-toned, quite precocious blue fruit, iris flower, hints of graphite and cracked black pepper. It is still fairly youthful, likewise the palate is pure and decadent, lavished in new oak that seems to be proportionate to the fruit, graphite and flint lending welcome tension on the finish. Impressive, but this needs another five to seven years in the cellar.

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95
95/100

Average Score

96
96/100

Robert Parker

96
96/100

Robert Parker

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94 points
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
Score 94/100 · Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider, Feb 2005

96 points
Robert Parker
Score 96/100 · Drink 2002-2018, Robert Parker, Apr 2002

The dense purple-colored, profound 1997 Cote Rotie La Turque (5-7% Viognier added to the blend) offers creme de cassis, licorice, and espresso aromas as well as notions of melted asphalt. Compared to La Mouline, it has additional layers as well as structure, sweet tannin, and exhilarating levels of opulence and ripe fruit. Anticipated maturity: now-2018. Importer: Fred Ek, Ex Cellars Wine Agencies, Solvang, CA; tel. (805) 686-9153

96 points
Robert Parker
Score 96/100 · Robert Parker

The dense purple-colored, profound 1997 Cote Rotie La Turque (5-7% Viognier added to the blend) offers creme de cassis, licorice, and espresso aromas as well as notions of melted asphalt. Compared to La Mouline, it has additional layers as well as structure, sweet tannin, and exhilarating levels of opulence and ripe fruit. Anticipated maturity: now-2018. Apr 2002, www.robertparker.com

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E. Guigal
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Grape Blend

Syrah / Shiraz, Viognier

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

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