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: 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...