1997 Cote Rotie Les Grandes Places

The splendid 1997 Cote Rotie Les Grandes Places reveals an impressively saturated opaque purple color. The nose offers up gorgeous quantities of super-ripe black raspberries, blackberries, toasty oak, smoke, and pain grille. Expansive and full-bodied, with fabulous concentration, outstanding purity, and low acidity, this is a hedonistic, lush, heady, decadently styled Cote Rotie to consume over the next 12-15+ years. Feb 1999, www.robertparker.com

Robert Parker    Score: 90-91/100