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Auction: SFW03 - An Evening of Exceptional Wines
Lot: 60

RHONE VALLEY from a Private Cellar

M Chapoutier Côte Rôtie La Mordorée vintage 1999

95/100 points Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate #140 April 2002

Lying in a temperature-controlled cellar duty & tax free in Hong-Kong
3 bottles

Tasting Note: "Chapoutier's La Mordoree cuvee is produced from 75-80-year old Syrah vines planted in both the Côte Blonde and Côte Brune, aged in 100% new oak casks, and bottled with neither fining nor filtration. The 1999 Côte Rotie La Mordoree is the finest he has produced since the 1991 (two bottles drunk over the last six months confirm this fabulous wine's potential as it is just now beginning to emerge from a cloak of tannin). The 1999 has closed down since its pre-bottling tasting. The color is an inky purple, and the wine is dense and powerful, with notes of smoky blackberries, creosote, and espresso. Concentrated flavors reveal high levels of tannin (surprising in view of last year's report), and a rich, long, 45-second finish. This impressive 1999 will take longer to reach its plateau of drinkability than I thought last year. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2023."

The Côte-Rotie vineyard is certainly one of the oldest in existence in the Rhône valley : Vienne wines were already highly reputed by Rome as far back as one century B.C.
An old fondly, told legend, belonging to Côte-Rotie related the story of the seigneur de Maugiron who having two daughters, one blond and the other dark haired, bequeathed a hillside to each one of them. And thus were born the names of "Côte-Blonde" and "Côte-Brune."

Estimate
SG$800 to SG$1,000