Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie, Cuvee Classique 2006 Zinfandel expressive and textured

expressive and textured

They are of very high quality and deserve readers’ attention

with a complex bouquet of pear

There's precision and cleanliness

exhibiting huge but not too-dominant wood aromas and flavors

Rene Rostaing, Cote Rotie, Cuvee Classique 2006 Zinfandel expressive and textured93 CellarTracker Northern Rhone with bottle age (The Laundry, Brixton): Another great bottle in great shape, almost but not quite as exuberant as the 2005 Ogier, and to my mind definitely more vivacious than the same wine from 2005. The nose is again more alive than than the palate, so you do take a step back on that front, but this is another Cote Rotie that at close to two decades old is simply singing. This is on the red fruit spectrum with aged