Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Cote Rotie 2022 - 0,75l

Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Côte-Rôtie 2022 is Syrah from the Rhône with blackberry, violet, black pepper and schist-born mineral grip and a long finish. This is the dark, floral side of Côte-Rôtie, shaped by the Les Grandes Places lieu-dit. The glass moves from violet perfume to cracked pepper, then into blackberry and dark stone. The oak feels tucked into the frame after mostly used French barrels.

About the Wine
Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Côte-Rôtie 2022 comes from Syrah grown on schist in the named Les Grandes Places lieu-dit. Organic certification is listed for this wine, and the farming focus is part of a domaine known for close work on steep northern Rhône terraces. This parcel gives the wine a dark register from the start, with blackberry skin and violet showing before the pepper takes over. The 750 ml bottle carries a single-variety Syrah expression from one named Côte-Rôtie address on schist. In a warm glass, the vineyard’s signature feels narrow and dark, with graphite and pepper leading the ripe plum note. The 2022 feels tied to its site through a firm mineral line that reads as dark stone under the fruit. In the cellar, this Syrah spends 18 to 24 months in French oak barrels, with mostly used wood shaping the élevage. The barrel note stays quiet in the finished wine, showing as faint smoke and cedar behind the Les Grandes Places fruit. Dryness is clear on the palate, and the 13% alcohol gives the wine a measured frame for Côte-Rôtie. After élevage, the finish carries black pepper, violet and a cool schist-like scrape.

Tasting Notes
In the glass, Clusel-Roch Les Grandes Places Côte-Rôtie 2022 sits deep ruby with a darker core than the rim suggests after a slow swirl. The nose starts with blackberry skin and violet pastille, then brings in cracked black pepper and a cool scent of split schist from the named parcel. The palate has the grip of Les Grandes Places, with tannins that feel velvety at the edge and stony through the center, finishing with a dry tug. Air adds smoked meat and black olive with a faint volcanic-rock note, and the finish stretches through dry berry fruit and pepper dust into a narrow mineral line. Drink 2025-2035.

Food Pairing
This Syrah wants food with browned edges and a little fat, especially grilled ribeye, roast lamb shoulder or venison loin with juniper and crushed black pepper. The blackberry and violet side of the 2022 meets rare beef nicely, and the black pepper note picks up a crust of rosemary, thyme and coarse salt. For a regional bottle moment, pour it with saucisson chaud from Lyon and lentils, or with a slow-cooked Rhône-style daube of beef scented with bay leaf. Aged Comté or a firm tomme also makes sense, with the wine’s schist-like grip running through the cheese and leaving the peppery finish clear. If you open it young, give it a decanter and keep the seasoning savory with mushrooms, roasted shallots and pan juices on the plate.

Producer
Clusel-Roch is a family domaine in Verenay, just north of Ampuis, and the hyphenated name points to Gilbert Clusel and Brigitte Roch as much as to a particular style of Côte-Rôtie from steep vineyards. Its most concrete signature is organic farming on Côte-Rôtie terraces, a demanding choice in vineyards where each pass through the rows is slow and the schist sits close underfoot in the northern sector. The domaine gained organic certification in the early 2000s, then carried that habit into its northern Rhône wines and into its Coteaux du Lyonnais reds from old local ground around the family cellar. Guillaume Clusel now works alongside the family name, and the bottles keep a hand-scale feel through separate attention to parcels such as Les Grandes Places and La Viallière with each label keeping its own address on the front label. That parcel-by-parcel habit is clear in this 2022, with Les Grandes Places bringing a darker stone register and firmer tannin shape than the domaine’s more open Côte-Rôtie bottlings in a blind glass. The cellar choices match that scale: long élevage, mostly used French oak and a quiet barrel scent that sits behind blackberry skin and violet, with only a faint cedar trace beside the schist note after long barrel ageing.

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