1999 J-M Stephan Côte-Rôtie

Young vines cuvee: The fruit just gushes out of this one- if you prefer austerity and understatement, you won’t like it. There’s some cold soak, there’s some carbonic maceration, there’s some wooding, but Stephan delivers an exuberant wine that’s still unquestionably Côte-Rôtie.

SY (3/01)