stirring the lees with james molesworth

Day 9: A History Lesson, and More Time on the Roasted Slope

Posted: Jul 7, 2008 8:02am ET

Whenever I visit the Rhône, I try to set aside some time for a retrospective tasting (you can reference my past reviews of the 1995 and 1998 vintages in Châteauneuf-du-Pape). On this trip I wanted to focus on Côte-Rôtie a bit, so I rounded up nearly two-dozen samples from the superb ’99 vintage.

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