Chateau de la Roque, Pic-Saint-Loup, Cupa Numismae 1999 Burgundy Blanc The SSL offered its fruit

The SSL offered its fruit forward bouquet immediately where the ST was far tighter and unyielding

exhibiting huge but not too-dominant wood aromas and flavors

medium to full-bodied

Chinese five-spice and black tea complete the exotic aromatic profile

this retains an invigorating freshness

Chateau de la Roque, Pic-Saint-Loup, Cupa Numismae 1999 Burgundy Blanc The SSL offered its fruitBase of Neck or better; Kermit Lynch Import slips 65% Syrah, 35% Mourvdre Thirty two of the Chteaus eighty hectares are consecrated to terraced vineyard land with south southeast sun exposure, on clay and limestone soils. This is unique terroir. Garrigue, the aromatic scrub brush that dominates the landscapes of the South, asserts its presence among these vines. Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvdre, the noble varietals that Jack Boutin planted here years