2004 Cote Rotie 'La Turque' 0,75 l Guigal
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While outstanding, the 2004 Côte Rôtie La Turque is probably my least favorite vintage in the past 20 years or more. Medium-bodied, elegant, and streamlined on the palate, it has classy notes of smoked meats, green herbs, coffee bean, and truffle. Drink bottles over the coming 7-8 years or so.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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While certainly an outstanding wine, the 2004 Cote Rotie la Turque is a more streamlined, medium-bodied, elegant example of this cuvee. It offers a touch of herbacousness as well as lots of smoked meats, coffee bean and truffle, ripe tannin and solid overall balance. It’s mature, but will drink well for another decade.
Saturated red. Deep, concentrated aromas of kirsch, cola and blackcurrant, with mounting smokiness and Indian spice qualities. Livelier on the palate, offering sweet raspberry and cherry-cola flavors, velvety texture and a strong lashing of cracked pepper. A sweet anise note carries through the sappy, very sweet finish. This wine is already quite seductive.
Deep red. Flamboyantly perfumed nose offers a gaudy display of cherry, cola and fresh flowers. Deep, sweet and fleshy, with concentrated cherry/berry flavors, nervy minerality and a broad, expansive finish. While this will no doubt warrant a long rest in the cellar, there's a seductively open quality to it that will make for wonderful early drinking.