Yves Cuilleron Cote-Rotie Bassenon 2012
- Vintage
- 2012
- Region
- Rhone
- Country
- France
- Size
- 0.75L
- Grape
- Syrah
- Type
- Red Wine
- Ratings
The Cote Rotie Bassenon, which incorporated 10% Viognier and spent 18 months in 50% new oak, offers a perfumed, pure and lively feel, with notions of flowers, violets, plum and blackberry-styled fruit. Medium to full-bodied, with fine tannin that emerges on the finish.
Domaine Yves Cuilleron is a producer in the northern Rhone, making red and white wines predominantly from Syrah and Viognier, respectively. The domaine has been in the Cuilleron family for three generations, but it is the domaine's current owner and winemaker, Yves Cuilleron, who has expanded the size, scope, and scale of the estate's vineyard land holdings and winery. Estate holdings were a mere 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres) in Condrieu and Saint-Joseph before Yves Cuilleron took over in 1987. The estate now runs to 59ha (146 acres) of vineyard land in Cote Rotie, Crozes-Hermitage, Cornas and Saint-Peray. These vineyards are planted to Syrah, Marsanne, Roussanne, and Viognier.