Anton Rodet Char that I really enjoyed on the '09 a while ago. Not quite up to that but good enough. They must be clearing this as I've not seen it for a while and it's OOS on the website. Ah well...await the '11 I s'pose.

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BA, If you thought the 2010 vintage was a notch or two behind the '09 - then consider this:

Ba, I liked the Rodet 09 Hautes-Cotes blanc as well. Don't forget that Rodet cleans up the left overs and scraps for his generic Hautes. Because '09 was a fail safe vintage, even the scraps were decent. You should go back and find more of the 2010s in the store. The'10s were reported to be a lot more vibrant and ripe, and achieved 13.8% alc naturally, they were compared very favourably against the elevens at recent tasting events !

Even at village and designated Dom level the 2011 whites have been reported to be a tad thin and watery. There will of course be good '11 burgundies at the price, where hail did not decimate the crops, and where expensive pruning, picking and sorting work was paid for.....

Rodet's hoovering-up of the scraps around Cotes in 2011 is not predicted by me to be anything close to the 2009 - I may be wrong, lets hope so.

There is some hope on the otherside of the coin of course; if the notable producers reject some of their poor fruit for their named and prestige cuvee's, then there could have been a levelling up on the negotiant clear-up. It never really makes-up for the situation, or hasn't hitherto.

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