
Home / Assortment / Northern Rhone / Côte-Rôtie / Domaine Christophe Billon La Brocarde Côte-Rôtie 2011
An oily, meat stock aroma with crunched up red berries and dust from warm stones. There is a suggestion of cooked bacon, and some feral-animal airs. The palate is scaled-up, the fruit ripe and almost high. There are soaked red cherries at its core, and a confirmed spot of gras richness just before the finish. It needs to climb down off its constructed pedestal and ease and mingle with the ordinary folk. It has a big, chary, smoked tea ending. A wine of big depth, a real offering here. It ends with some style, has potential; for now cellar rules over vineyard. [November 2012, notes by John Livingston/drinkrhone.com]
Christophe Billon: “The Brocarde is always more precocious than the Côte Rozier. The exposure and soil are very similar, but Brocarde is lower – 160 to 220 mtr, against the 220-270 mtr.”
John Livingston: “A wine of big depth, a real offering here. It ends with some style, has potential; for now cellar rules over vineyard.”