2021 Côte à Côte

Auslieferung im Frühjahr 2025!
Delivery in spring 2025!

Love the garrigue herbs on the nose, this captures the exuberance of Paso in its seductive vibrancy and easy pleasure, balancing it with freshly cut herbs, fennel and white pepper, liquorice, bilberry and raspberry fruits. Sculptured and textured, long ageing ahead. Fermented and aged in amphora, cement vats and 33% new French oak. There was no release last year, ensuring a little more time in bottle before release. A dry season, similar to 2019 and 2020, few extremes of heat except for two or three days during harvest, producing a lovely wine from the Asseo family.
95/100 Jane Anson

(Paso Robles; 37% Grenache; 32% Syrah; 31% Mourvedre; 30% new oak; 18% in concrete; 16% in amphora 14.9% alcohol; tasted with Swann Dufeu from L’Aventure at CVBG; aged in amphora, concrete, new and one-year old French old barrels). Fascinating. Distinctive. Indeed, a little Cote Rôtie-esque (written, I should note, before I was told that the name itself is an homage to the Northern Rhone) but also describing the location of the key parcels here. Rose petals. Peony. This is more floral than the Estate bottling. An open fire and the warm cinders afterwards. Meaty too. Open-textured, layered, with tannins that build in presence and granularity towards the finish. Limpid, glossy and impressively luminous. Inky, deep, dark and concentrated. Dense and intense, the attack not too ample and that reinforces the sense of concentration. Nice freshness. Juicy. Lovely grippy, crumbly limestone tannins bring great tension, chiselled structure and a very lifted fantail finish to this.
96/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business