2001 Wine from France

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2001 Chateauneuf du Pape is a beauty! Classic and textbook in style, with ample cured meats, earth, herbs and mature currant and blackberry fruit, it flows onto the palate with full-bodied richness, a gorgeous texture...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: What a perfumed, elegant, structured wine, with all the elements of fruit, wood, tannins just in the right place. It shows great tannins, powerful black and red berry fruits, denseness, and a classic, fresh aftertaste.

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: This is a marvelously complete wine, with its impressive ripe fruit, shining through the open structure. It is firm, but not too much. Stone black fruits are just perfectly ripe. There is just a core of dryness to...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 92 points: Dark ruby-red. Deep, inviting aromas of sappy berry liqueur and truffle. Lush, silky and sweet, with expressive flavors of blackberry, currant, truffle and chocolate nicely framed by harmonious acidity. The most...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 94 points: Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a relatively light but feminine bouquet, earthy notes at first, later tightly coiled blackberry and cedar, briary and pencil box. The palate is...

Burghound, 90 points: There is a slightly curious hint of lactic character that detracts slightly from the overall sense of purity though not so much as to render the almost fully mature aromas of secondary fruit and earth unpleasant. There is...

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...

Wine Spectator, 94 points: Wonderful spice and currant aromas to this young wine. Full-bodied with super well?integrated refined tannins. Long caressing finish. This is very very silky. Just like from barrel. Cos is on top of it now...

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Lots of lemon and maple syrup on the nose with dried apricots. Full-bodied with a very sweet and rich palate of candied lemon and orange rinds and a long finish. Beautifully sticky...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 92 points: 92+ Good medium ruby color. Crystallized black raspberry, violet, minerals and leather on the complex nose. Sweet, dense and rich, with plenty of flesh to support its structure. A step up in texture from the premier cru...