2001 Wine from France

Burghound, 90 points: Remarkably refined for the appellation with elegance and complexity on the expressive nose followed by full-bodied dusty flavors that offer plenty of finesse but are also solidly structured and persistent. A very pretty...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 93 points: (18/20) Very reticent nose, great texture and bone dry. This is very confident but still pretty austere. Delicacy on the finish and real density. Long but no bruiser. Wait. The most youthful wine here.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: Year in and year out, Jaboulet’s top white is the Hermitage Chevalier de Sterimberg, which is aged in new oak for nine months prior to bottling. The 2001 (a blend of 35% Roussanne and 65% Marsanne) exhibits aromas of ripe...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2001 Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots is really beginning to hit its stride, unfurling in the glass with a captivating bouquet with aromas of red berries and darker fruits mingling with notions of forest floor...

TheWineCellarInsider.com, 90 points: Elegant, charming, soft, refined, medium bodied and fully ready ready to go. The wine offers a sweet, fresh, smoky, spicy, red fruit character. Popped and poured, was all it needed.

Vinous, 93 points: (90-93) Pale, bright straw-yellow. Highly aromatic nose combines pit fruits, pineapple, rose petal, menthol and vanillin oak. Penetrating, intensely flavored and precise, with sweet flavors leavened by solid acidity. Very...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: (90 - 93 points) The 2001 Cote Rotie La Landonne reveals a roasted espresso character along with licorice, pepper, scorched earth, and dense blackberry and cassis fruit. Firm, tannic, and masculine as well as aromatic (a...