Vignobles Levet Cote-Rotie 'Les Journaries' 2020

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Vignobles Levet Cote-Rotie 'Les Journaries' 2020Since the 2004 vintage, we have expanded our work with the Levet family to include a second bottling of Cote Rotie known as Les Journaries, a cuve drawn from grapes harvested from old vines in the La Landonne lieu dit. This wine is more subtle, more elegant and quieter if you will than the Chavaroche. At the same time, it is very much a Levet wine with a bouquet of violets, wild berries, a touch of animal and resinous like tannins that speak of the

with crisp cherry and spiced plum flavors that glide along the long

Like the “Pur Mesnil

Levet’s basic Côte-Rôtie spends two years in 600-liter barrels

With bottle age it will develop a savory swagger as its Mourvèdre-driven fruits develop umami

possessed of a certain “x-factor” that sets it apart from its brethren—something akin to charisma in humans

Here the wine thrusts us into the dense ambience of the forest: the dark berry-like fruit

afterwards

situated at 400 meters altitude in the Valle de la Orotava

with all elements hanging together in delicate harmony

A minimal 25 mg/l dose of sulfur is applied only after malolactic fermentation

the latter of which provides a point of amertume (a fresh

Always arrestingly wild