2005 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'Ampuis - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie (10/12/2022)
Served blind as part of an informal tasting, this was decanted about three hours prior to service. It fooled everyone. All the guesses were for a Cabernet-based wine, with most guessing mid-2010s Bordeaux, and one person going Cal Cab. The tight, dark fruit and firm tannins seemed more like Cabernet, but there was an underlying richness, so I went 2014 Bordeaux from the Margaux region. Dead wrong! Turns out we had been fooled by the exact wine in the past by the host. I suspect he will try it again.
Love this wine David. It is not an elegant Cote Rotie but it is delicious.
It didn’t taste anything like Cote Rotie. It was really good wine, but not typical.
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aged new oak for 38 months
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And while it had some oak, it wasn’t dominant. Not at all.
Why is it in blind tastings everyone blames the wine and nit the taster ?
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It was good wine, but it fooled every single taster. FYI, the same wine did the same thing a year ago. It doesn’t taste like Syrah/Cote Rotie. If you can’t understand that I can’t help you.
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I understand your point. And I get plenty of wines wrong in blind tastings. I like the wine as well. But it’s not usually the fault of the wine. It’s the taster that gets it wrong in blind tastings, not the wine.
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