2013 Domaine Jamet Cote-Rotie (750ml)

"The Jamet brothers, Jean-Luc and Jean-Paul, decided to go their separate ways in the 2013 vintage, creating two distinct estates by splitting the family’s vineyard production. They had worked side by side since the late 1980s and co-directed the family property since their father’s retirement in 1991. Brother Jean-Paul has stayed on at the family cellars, being joined by his wife, Corinne and their son, Loïc. Their 2013 Côte-Rôtie from this side of the Jamet family remains a blend for a wide variety of different lieux à dits and comes in at a nicely classic thirteen percent octane. In fact, and the wine is utterly classic on both the nose and palate, with the superb bouquet jumping from the glass in a complex blend of red and black raspberries, pepper, spiced meats, a lovely base of soil, black olives, woodsmoke and a topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and very transparent down to the soil, with a fine core of fruit, firm, suave tannins, tangy aci