La Doriane, La Mouline, La Turque, La Landonne: benchmark Cote Rotie from the northern reaches of the Rhone Valley. It’s not everyday I get to look at the current release Lala’s. They’re premium, age-worthy wines that are typically cellared for decades, and over that time morph into powerful wines of place. This is how we ‘usually’ drink them. The impetus for this video was my curiosity to understand the nature of these wines as young wines, in the context of familiar territory for me: Australian Shiraz Viognier.
The resounding takeaway? Do NOT open your bottles. Not yet.