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Chapoutier Cote-Rotie Quatuor Rhone 2016

Chapoutier Cote-Rotie Quatuor Rhone 2016

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(Wine Advocate Score 93) It's fascinating to see how the 2016 Cote Rotie Quatuor has evolved since last year, with dark, savory elements largely supplanted in prominence by notes of raspberry and cedar. A blend of four estate parcels, it's medium to full-bodied, with a supple, creamy texture and silky tannins on the tart finish.
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Grape variety/varieties: Syrah
Harvest: Harvested by hand.
Soil: This wine is made from a blend of our four plots: • The Côte Brune with its soil of fractured mica-schist, which gives the wine structure and power, • The Côte Blonde, located on a vein of gneiss, which provides elegance and a floral character, • Neve, located to the north of the appellation, with a soil composed of stony mica-schist, endowing the wine with tension and minerality, • Tupins, to the extreme south of the appellation, in an area of migmatite and sandy loam, adding notes of spice and dark fruit.
Vinification: The vinification takes place in unclad, rough concrete tanks. The harvested grapes are completely de-stemmed. Native yeasts are used for the fermentation during which the temperature is allowed to gradually rise to 30-32°C. The vatting period lasts from 4 to 5 weeks with regular pumping over operations carried out at the start of the maceration, some cap punching, and then a passive infusion with a stirring of the lees in the last 3 weeks. By tasting the wine in the tank each day, we are able to tailor our different operations to the wine and determine the best running-off date.
Ageing: The wine goes into barrel “hot” after run-off and 24 to 48 hours sedimentation to eliminate any remaining solid matter and the coarsest lees. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrel. 50% in 228-litre barrels (pièces bourguignonnes), 50% in 600-litre barrels (demi-muids), of which 20 to 25% are new. The wine is racked at the end of winter. Ageing can last 12 to 18 months depending on the vintage and our tastings of the wine.

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