Description

Red Wine: 2020 | Domaine Barge | Cote Rotie Le Combard

Lastly, the 2020 Cte Rtie Coeur De Combard is darker and more black-fruited, with plenty of black cherry, licorice, roasted herbs, and iron aromatics.

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Producer: Domaine Barge

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.8%

Varietal: Syrah

Country/Region: France, Rhone

Lastly, the 2020 Cte Rtie Coeur De Combard is darker and more black-fruited, with plenty of black cherry, licorice, roasted herbs, and iron aromatics. These carry to a medium to full-bodied Cte Rtie offering silky tannins, a layered, ripe mouthfeel, terrific balance, and outstanding length.

Producer Information

Born to a family whod been growing grapes since 1860, Jules Barge became the first in Cte Rtie to sell domaine-bottled wines in 1929. His long career ended in the early 1970s, when he handed the baton to his son Pierre. As was typical for the times, both men made only one classique Cte Rtiea mixture of wine from Cte Brune and Cte Blonde, but with an emphasis on the former. But in the 1979, Gilles Barge joined his father, inspired by the commercial success of his fathers great 1976 Cte Rtie. He had already attended enology schoolthe first son of Ampuis to do soand he had worked for a wine merchant in Ampuis for a few years. It was the perfect preparation for a skillful innovator: a young man steeped in his familys traditional ideals, but with technical training and the experience of the marketplace. From the time he joined his father until he took over in 1994, Gilles had the time (and intelligence) to chart the domaines future. He saw it as essentially traditionalist, with a heavy emphasis on whole-cluster fermentation and the use of mostly neutral, old barrels, especially demi-muids, for aging. But Gilles has also saw opportunities to improve on the Old Schools ways. He reduced the use of sulfur (long before it became fashionable to do so) and he eliminated fining and filtration. He even conceived a way to continue practicing classic submerged cap fermentation in a temperature-controlled tank And perhaps most importantly, he reorganized the domaines wines, creating two highly expressive and unique single-vineyard cuves, plus a blended wine that in itself is a masterpiece of typicity. Today, nearly 90 years after it began to sell its own domaine-bottled wines, Barge is one of Cte Rties standard-bearers of traditionalism, with Gilles son, Julien, next in line to continue his familys important legacy.