Red Wine from Northern Rhone

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: A perfect wine, the 2009 Ermitage Le Pavillon (1,093 cases) boasts a black/purple color as well as an extraordinary bouquet of acacia flowers, blackberries, blueberries, roasted meats, creme de cassis, truffles, graphite...