2007 | Domaine Stphane Ogier | Cote Rotie

Red Wine: 2007 | Domaine Stphane Ogier | Cote Rotie

Vivid ruby. Seductively perfumed bouquet of strawberry, black raspberry, Asian spices and minerals. Becomes more fragrant with air and offers sweet red fruit flavors are framed by silky tannins.

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Producer: Domaine Stphane Ogier

Ratings: WA | 98 WS | 95

Vintage: 2007

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Syrah/Shiraz

Country/Region: France, Northern Rhone

Vivid ruby. Seductively perfumed bouquet of strawberry, black raspberry, Asian spices and minerals. Becomes more fragrant with air and offers sweet red fruit flavors are framed by silky tannins. The finish is impressively pure and penetrating, with a strong echo of sweet red fruit and candied flowers.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: A 100% Syrah aged in 50% new French oak, the 2007 Cote Rotie Lancement Cote Blonde is a prodigious wine that flirts with perfection. It offers up notes of bacon fat, tapenade, sweet cassis and black raspberries, graphite and subtle barbecue smoke. Opulent, fleshy and rich, it is a total hedonistic and intellectual turn-on. Drink it over the next 12-15 years. One of Frances most brilliant small artisanal wineries is that of the Ogier family in Ampuis, situated about six blocks north of Guigals vast network of underground cellars. The value picks are the wines made from the steep hillsides north of the old Roman settlement of Vienne.

• Wine Spectator: Piercing black tea and coffee aromas lead the way for a refined, silky, racy palate of crushed currant, blackberry and aa berry fruit flavors, harnessed by a strong iron note on the long finish. There’s ample dark fruit, but the minerality blazes through.

Producer Information

Domaine Stphane Ogier is a producer in the northern Rhne appellation of Cte Rtie. It is especially well known for varietal Syrah from several highly regarded appellations in the region, but also making small amounts of Viognier from Condrieu and red and white Vin de Pays wine. The Ogier family has farmed the Rhne Valley for generations, including tending vineyards. The domaine was formed by Michel Ogier who had been growing grapes in the village of Ampuis in Cte Rtie and selling them, notably to famous Rhne producers Guigal and Chapoutier. Ogier began making its own wine in the early 1980s and by 1987 was vinifying and bottling its entire harvest. Michel’s son Stphane began working at the winery in 1998 after studying viticulture and enology in Burgundy and within a few years he took over running the domaine. The estate had gone by Domaine Michel Ogier, but new vintages now commonly say either Domaine Michel et Stephane Ogier or M&S Ogier d’Ampuis. When the estate began vinifying its own grapes, it had roughly 3 hectares under vine. Beginning at the end of the 1990s more vineyards were planted or purchased, specifically several in new Cte-Rtie lieux-dits and a small 1.2 ha vineyard in Condrieu. The domaine believes strongly in the quality of specific sites within Cte-Rtie, comparing them to the variously tiered village, premier cru and grand cru AOCs in Burgundy. It has practiced vinifying individual parcels separately and labels often carry the name of the specific lieux-dits where the grapes comes from, though no legal classification for sub-regions exists in Cte-Rtie. In 2015 Ogier was farming 16 ha, 8 of which were in Cte-Rtie. It also established a small ngociant business which provides the fruit for the Le Temps Est Venu Ctes du Rhone. The wines have been critically praised with several vintages of the Cte-Rtie Cuve Belle Helene, from the Cte Brun lieu-dit, earning 100 points from Robert Parker.