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Auction: SFW03 - An Evening of Exceptional Wines
Lot: 61

NORTHERN RHONE from a Private Collector

E.Guigal Côte-Rotie vintage 1991
from Guigal's single vineyard wines La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque

Lying in a temperature-controlled cellar duty paid in Singapore
3 bottles (1 bottle each of the above single vineyard wines)

Tasting Notes: "The black/purple-colored 1991 La Mouline (100/100 points Robert Parker, Rhone Book Jan. 1997) appears to be a perfect wine in the making, with a staggering bouquet of violets, bacon fat, sweet cassis fruit, and toasty oak. The wine exhibits superb density. It is tasting even richer and more concentrated than it did during its first several years of life. With 8% Viognier in the blend and made from extremely low yields (only 400 cases produced), it is a phenomenal wine. I find it more seductive than the nearly perfect 1990. Anticipated maturity: now-2012. Last tasted 6/96.

The 1991 La Landonne (99/100 points Robert Parker, Rhone Book Jan. 1997) will provide multimillionaires with plenty of pleasure over the next 20 years. They can also debate whether it or the perfect 1990 is the better wine. The 1991's bouquet offers huge, smoky, new saddle leather, licorice, Asian spice, meaty, and cassis scents. Black in color, with layers of richness, huge body, massive extraction, and a phenomenal finish, it is another legend from Marcel Guigal. It will be the least precocious of the 1991s, needing until the turn of the century to open and develop; it should keep for 25-30 + years. Last tasted 6/96.

The 1991 La Turque (99/100 points Robert Parker, Rhone Book Jan. 1997) behaves as if it wants to be the northern Rhone's answer to Richebourg and Musigny. However, with the exception of Domaine Leroy, you cannot find a Richebourg or Musigny with the richness and complexity possessed by this awesome wine. The saturated dark purple color is followed by a wine that is surprisingly lighter in the mouth than its great flavor intensity and rich extraction would suggest. It is a winemaking tour de force in that Guigal has been able to cram phenomenal levels of fruit, complexity, and richness into this velvety-textured wine without causing it to taste heavy. Anticipated maturity: 1998-2015. Last tasted 6/96."

Sold for
SG$2,500