Brune et Blonde de Guigal Côte-Rotie Syrah

Decant and leave for an hour or so. Delicious.

Still quite closed. Good potential.

2017 vintage. Really tight, even after being open for two hours. Will hit the second-half of the bottle tomorrow night to look for improvement. **Edit**Finished the bottle on night two. Juice spiced up a slight, finely ground black pepper note but otherwise, the same. Considering that the winery prioritizes this particular wine as a cornerstone wine out of all the offerings, thinking this wine to be in a "dumb" phase currently. Will try to hit again in a year.

13.5%

This is always a great cote rotie, but this felt a bit restrained. Layers of flavors in the nose - smoke, fruit, dried leaves/flowers.

Matt had this 3 years ago

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