Ba, you did very well to find that wine for £6.74. You know you did, cos not on general distribtion. Tesco clearing smaller stocks, or the wine did not make it into their ring fenced Fine wine gallery, because it did not carry the Rodet livery.
Antonin Rodet owns premier cru vineyards in Mercury, and makes one or two nice rouge wines in good years. Lean in poor ones though, so only buy when you know the vintage is ripe. This hautes cotes is probably made from friut grown by small growers further north, north east of Beaune, rather than his own domaines down south. A good season so there was a glut of good fruit. The company may have been buying vineyards, but I think they are expanding their production plant. I believe the head honcho winemaker is a madame Rodet, one of the family. It's all there on the web, if you're interested. Rodet has been supplying big T for years. I should have acquired some AR 05 Mercury 1er when on offer and before the ring fence was put up...... But we did not know it was coming.
Damn glad you got one that you enjoyed. Cote d'Or chardonnay clearly the best on the globe when on song, normally much bigger money. V. Glad you got the nutty kernel bits as well, that wine is clearly a cut above the norm.
Probably best drunk when young and fresh - would you say Ba ? Please confirm
http://www.rodet.com/fr/bourgogne-vins- ... cepage.php
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