1995 E. Guigal, Cote Rotie, La Mouline, Case of 12 Btls
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99RP
Critic key
RP = Robert Parker
- Rating
- RP99
- Producer
- Guigal
- Vintage
- 1995
- Region
- Rhone
- Appellation
- Cote Rotie
- Country
- France
- Grape Varietal
- 11% Viognier, 89% Syrah
- Format
- Case
- Volume
- 750mL
- ABV
- 13.0
- Type
- Still
- Color
- Red
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Product Description
RP99 "One of the treats when tasting through the profound Côte Rôties made by Marcel Guigal was the opportunity to taste all of the bottled 1995's. Reviewed in previous issues, they are even better from bottle than they were during their upbringing (a characteristic of many Guigal wines). The 1995 Côte Rôtie la Mouline is the stuff of legends and is every bit as compelling as readers might expect. This single vineyard wine will have at least 2 decades of longevity." RP Oct 1999
Robert Parker writes, "The great glories of this house are its Cote Roties, of which there are now five separate offerings. Guigal believes 1995 may turn out to his greatest vintage for Cote Rotie. It is also the first vintage that his son, Philippe, did the harvest and has helped with the vinification and elevage. I should also note that it is the debut vintage for his newest acquisition, Chateau d'Ampuis. Guigal's 1995s have aged magnificently in cask, with the three single vineyards candidates for perfection. I thought the 1995 Cote Rotie La Mouline and 1995 Cote Rotie La Turque to be perfect wines. Both have put on considerable weight since I tasted them last year, and they have developed a magnificently compelling perfume of black fruits, floral scents, and in the case of La Mouline, exotic, overripe tropical fruit in addition to coconut. The 1995 La Mouline exhibits layers of fruit, a sweet, expansive fullness, but no sense of heaviness. The wine is wonderfully pure, very full, but with no hard edges. It is a silky fruit bomb. The staggering concentration and length (nearly one minute) suggest that this wine will deliver 20 years of profound drinking. More and more the 1995 reminds me of the 1985 as it drops some of its hard edges and tart acidity. Guigal is one of the cellars where the wines always taste better after they are bottled than they do from cask, although as the scores in this segment indicate, some profound wines can be found in the 1994, 1995, and 1996 vintages Chez Guigal." Published: Oct 30, 1997
Robert Parker writes, "The great glories of this house are its Cote Roties, of which there are now five separate offerings. Guigal believes 1995 may turn out to his greatest vintage for Cote Rotie. It is also the first vintage that his son, Philippe, did the harvest and has helped with the vinification and elevage. I should also note that it is the debut vintage for his newest acquisition, Chateau d'Ampuis. Guigal's 1995s have aged magnificently in cask, with the three single vineyards candidates for perfection. I thought the 1995 Cote Rotie La Mouline and 1995 Cote Rotie La Turque to be perfect wines. Both have put on considerable weight since I tasted them last year, and they have developed a magnificently compelling perfume of black fruits, floral scents, and in the case of La Mouline, exotic, overripe tropical fruit in addition to coconut. The 1995 La Mouline exhibits layers of fruit, a sweet, expansive fullness, but no sense of heaviness. The wine is wonderfully pure, very full, but with no hard edges. It is a silky fruit bomb. The staggering concentration and length (nearly one minute) suggest that this wine will deliver 20 years of profound drinking. More and more the 1995 reminds me of the 1985 as it drops some of its hard edges and tart acidity. Guigal is one of the cellars where the wines always taste better after they are bottled than they do from cask, although as the scores in this segment indicate, some profound wines can be found in the 1994, 1995, and 1996 vintages Chez Guigal." Published: Oct 30, 1997