Domaine Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Cote Rotie, Rhone, France 2021 Rosso di Montalcino Aromas of coffee beans

Aromas of coffee beans

Vertigo is a collaboration with importer VomBoden with the aim to save some of the top quality old-vine wines from being blended away into obscurity in one of the giant local co-ops

The higher and flatter exposition of the Niederberg suggests that it may be one of the cooler sites

"  Jeb Dunnuck 100 points

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Domaine Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Cote Rotie, Rhone, France 2021 Rosso di Montalcino Aromas of coffee beansBased in Verenay, the northernmost village in Cte Rtie, this tiny 3. 5 hectare domaine is run by Gilbert Clusel, his wife Brigit, and their son Guillaume. Gilberts grandfather planted the foundation of the winery in 1935, the vineyard now known as Les Grandes Places, using a low yielding clone of Syrah called Serine. All subsequent plantings have been selection massale from that vineyard, a rarity in the region as higher yielding material became more