Pierre Barge Cote Rotie 1988
Tasting Note
'The 1988 blended version of Côte-Rôtie from Gilles Barge and his father Pierre is a fine, old school example and was a bit reductive still when we first opened it and needed a good twenty minutes to fully blossom and show its true pedigree. Once open fully, the wine offers up a fine bouquet of cassis, spit-roasted venison, camphor, woods ash, a very complex base of soil tones, bonfire and a distinctive topnote of cloves. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully transparent, with a fine core of fruit, still just a whisper of backend tannin and excellent length and grip on the focused finish. This was the last vintage that the Barge family only produced a blended bottling of Côte-Rôtie and the 1988 is a fine bottle that is now fully mature, but has decades of life still ahead of it.'
92/100 John Gilman
92/100 John Gilman
Specifications for Pierre Barge Cote Rotie 1988
| Region | Rhone |
| Sub-region | Cote Rotie |
| Vintage | 1988 |
| Size (Volume) | Bottle |
| Bond Status | In Bond |