Cote Rotie, Tardieu-Laurent

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One of the least impressive Cote Roties Michel Tardieu has produced is the 2001. Refined, elegant, medium-bodied, and restrained, it lacks volume, density, and length. A dark ruby color is followed by tell-tale aromas of bacon fat, flowers, raspberries, and other black fruits. What’s there is pleasant, but the wine is excessively delicate, with an abrupt finish.