2015 Cote Rotie
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The 2015 Côte-Rôte from Domaine Jamet is utterly sublime. It has a beguilingly complex bouquet with the most pronounced garrigue-like scents, touches of Italian delicatessen and clove, all delivered with wonderful precision, black olive compote emerging with time. The palate is beautifully-defined with superb tension, very cohesive and crystalline, unerringly pure and silky so that the finish completely disguises its backbone. Brilliant. (NM)
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Perched exactly between power and elegance, this is simply stunning. Layers of lusciously-textured, perfectly ripe, dark red fruits, thyme, smoke, incense, and cocoa take over your palate and expand while they linger in the finish. Drink from 2022-2045.
Quite opposite to the 2016, the 2015 is open-knit and very savoury. Game, ripe red and black fruits and smoked bacon all show on the nose. The palate has admirable freshness but the fruit has a softer, rounder feel. The tannins are already melting into the wine, adding to the generous, silken mouthfeel. Finely balanced and moreish, a delicious example that can be drunk now but has great persistence for further ageing. (TP)
Jamet's 2015 Cote Rotie continues to show a ridiculous, impenetrable black-purple color. It's tight, full-bodied and firm, with black olive, cassis and blueberry fruit that doesn't seem to have budged since the day it was bottled. Give it another 5 years or so before popping a cork.