Reviews & Scores
11% Viognier. 42 months in 100% new barriques. 400 c/s. La Mouline first bottled 1996. Deep garnet but brighter than La Turque. Darker fruit on the nose, plenty of oak, but also riper – dark ripe cherry with perfume emerging. More peppery and masculine. Intense and so concentrated. Then so sweet and fresh and deep on the palate. Gorgeously generous and intense without any heaviness. Very very fine grained and a long sweet finish. - JR
JR18.5
Medium-deep ruby. Raw crushed raspberry, woodsmoke, pepper, smoked meat, roasted tomato and spicy, nutty oak on the nose; one can smell the tannins. Intensely flavored and penetrating, already showing great inner-mouth perfume. Really explosive peppery finish offers great persistence. An unusually powerful version of this wine, with solid tannic structure and terrific vivacity. "La Mouline is usually a beautiful young blonde," says Philippe. "In '98, it's more like an East German track star." - VM
VM95
The awesome 1998 Cote Rotie La Mouline is a seamless, full-bodied classic with many characteristics of the 1997 La Landonne , but more structure, tannin, and muscle. It will need two years of cellaring, and will last for twenty years. Stylistically, it is reminiscent of the 1988. - WA
WA97
Lovely, delicate, elegant Côte-Rôtie. Incredibly expressive, with the floral, cassis, black currant aromas jumping out of the glass. Medium-bodied, supple and caressing, this charmer is worth hunting down, especially for that iron and mineral terroir character. - WS
WS92