2010 Cote Rotie
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Bright purple. A heady bouquet evokes black raspberry, cherry-cola, smoky Indian spices and vanilla. Deeply pitched, very intense dark berry and cherry flavors are complemented by sexy floral pastille and spicecake nuances. Fine-grained tannins add shape to the very long, smoky finish, leaving behind notes of dark berries, cracked pepper and cola.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Josh Raynolds
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Inky ruby. Sexy, oak-spiced aromas of cherry-vanilla, woodsmoke, olive tapenade and potpourri. Then sappy, energetic and youthfully lithe, with excellent verve to its black and blue fruit compote, violet and candied licorice flavors. This youthfully taut, focused wine finishes very long and vibrant, with firm minerality and lingering dark fruit notes.
A blend from La Landonne, Chavaroche, Rozier and Les Rochains apparently with an average age of more than 50 years, billed as ‘reminiscent of the great Côte Rôtie of yesteryear!’ Mid to dark crimson. Rather heavier than the Côte Rôtie norm; arguably more Guigal than Jamet. Big and blustering; persuades more by mass than by finesse. Lots of still very awkward tannins on the finish. Bone dry but there is nothing ethereal about this. Very drying finish. (JR)