2012 Bila Haut (Chapoutier) Cotes Roussillon Rectificando Invenies

Proprietary Blend - 750ML
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, March 2023

To show the aging potential of his Roussillon wines, Chapoutier offered up a bottle of the 2012 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Lesquerde Rectificando Invenies—a Syrah-based effort. Boasting notes of leather, smoked meat and...
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Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, July 2013

(17/20) Bright crimson. Modest, quite subtle, low key nose far away from the fiery ferments at lower altitudes in Roussillon. Extremely juicy with crushed black fruit flavours, but with a strong spine of fine tannins...

WINE DETAILS

Color & Type Red
Varietal Proprietary Blend
Country France
Region Languedoc Roussillon
Sub-region Cotes du Roussillon
Appellation Cotes du Roussillon Villages
Vintage 2012
Size 750ML
Percent alcohol 14.5%
Closure Crown Seal

Chapoutier is one of the oldest wine producers in the Rhone Valley with a history dating back to 1808. A distant ancestor, Polydor Chapoutier, was the first to buy vines here, shifting from being a simple grape grower to making and trading his own wine. For the last two hundred years, the estate has been producing some of the greatest wines in the Rhone Valley. Today, the range also includes wines from some Roussillon appellations as well as projects in Portugal and Australia.

The Roussillon history is complex and compelling, and has at times been quite violent. Terraces are on stony soil, with a rich geological background and a climate that man has adopted for his crops. Michel Chapoutier decided to locate his domain at Latour de France for its black and brown schist soil to give the wine a solar touch, Gneiss for minerality and freshness, and a combination of limestone and chalk for strength and balance.

Three varieties of grapes grow on the land covered by Domaine de Bila-Haut: Syrah, with its savage aromas of scrub and spice, Grenache, so full of surprises, and Carignan, for mineral wines with crispy tannic notes. The “Vignes de Bila-Haut” and the “Domaine de Bila-Haut Occultum Lapidem” are the main expressions of this terroir. However, Michel Chapoutier wanted to obtain more via this site, to seize the quintessence.