2018 Cote Rotie Barbarine
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Glass-staining ruby. Displays intensely perfumed black and blue fruit, licorice, olive, incense and cracked pepper scents that deepen steadily as the wine opens up. Shows very good depth as well as energy to its sappy blueberry, cherry-cola, allspice and baking spice flavors. A sweet hint of mocha appears on the long, smoky finish, which is given shape by smooth, late-arriving tannins.
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Josh Raynolds
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Mineral- and smoke-accented red and dark berries, candied licorice and pungent flowers on the intensely perfumed nose. Densely packed, appealingly sweet cherry, blueberry, mulberry and spicecake flavors are supported by an undercurrent of smoky minerality that provides back-end lift and cut. Shows a suave floral quality on the impressively persistent finish, which is shaped by smooth tannins. There's a deft mix of power and finesse here.