2018 Cote Rotie La Landonne
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
Opaque ruby. Displays potent, smoke-accented, dark fruit preserves, licorice, exotic spice and dark chocolate qualities on the powerful, mineral-accented nose. Broad and fleshy on the palate, offering deeply pitched black and blue fruit, black cardamom, candied violet, olive and bitter chocolate flavors that become sweeter as the wine opens up. Youthfully chewy tannins add grip to a very long, smoky finish that echoes the black fruit, licorice and spice notes.
Critic scores
Average Score
Josh Raynolds
Josh Raynolds
More reviews and scores
A highly expressive, complex bouquet evokes ripe black/blue fruits, exotic spices, potpourri, olive and candied licorice. Palate-staining, appealingly sweet blackberry, mulberry, cherry liqueur, vanilla and violet pastille flavors show fine clarity and a supportive core of juicy acidity. Hangs on with superb tenacity on the youthfully tannic finish, which emphatically repeats the blue fruit, floral and spice notes. Made with 50% new oak.
Featuring typical la Landonne scents of mocha and roasted meat, the 2018 Cote Rotie la Landonne also boasts plenty of cherry-berry fruit. Medium to full-bodied, it's richly concentrated and velvety on the palate, adding notes of vanilla on the long, silky finish.