Red Wine from Northern Rhone

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: Just as good, but made in a completely different style, the 2009 Cote Rotie la Mouline (which incorporates a whopping 11% of Viognier) offers an insane bouquet of roasted meats, toast, spice, caramelized meats, coffee...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: Dark and densely packed yet terrifically racy with plum sauce pastis and crushed blackberry fruit wound with charcoal and roasted tobacco leaf notes but carried by riveting acidity. A long singed iron note hangs on the...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: This really stands apart from the crowd with searingly intense minerality cutting through a massive core of pastis plum sauce and fig paste. Gorgeous violet and spice notes fill in the background while charcoal and tar...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: An exotic and flashy red with bold espresso melted licorice incense and black tea aromatics rushing forth backed by dense but focused noted of blackberry and plum pâte de fruit. The long graphite-filled finish drips with...