2010 Syrah Wine from France

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2010 Cornas Vieilles Vignes is jaw-dropping stuff. Inky colored and incredibly concentrated, with sensational notes of bouquet garni, iron (blind I might have guess 2010 Clape), violets, crushed rock and decent black...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The opaque purple-colored 2010 Cornas Les Chailles offers up scents of smoked game and charcoal a full-bodied mouthfeel supple tannins and pedal-to-the metal richness and density. Already drinkable it has at least 15...

Vinous, 91 points: Vivid ruby. Aromas of cherry dark berries and olive with a medicinal pungency gaining strength with air. Deeply pitched but lively offering bitter cherry and cassis flavors and a building spiciness. The cherry note...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2010 Cornas Renaissance may be the finest example of the cuvee I have yet tasted. This offering represents about one-third of the Clape production and tends to come from two well-known sites in the natural...

Wine Spectator, 97 points: This is packed, with layers of charcoal and tar covering the well-endowed core of braised fig, blackberry pâte de fruit and pastis-soaked plum for now. Alder, olive and bay line the finish, with a terrific graphite spine...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: One of the greatest wines made in the appellation the opaque purple-colored full-bodied 2010 Crozes-Hermitage Les Varonnieres exhibits notes of truffles blackberries asphalt barbecue smoke pen ink and steak tartare in...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: 99+ One of the stars of the retrospective was the 2010 Ermitage le Meal. This classic vintage yielded concentrated, fresh and structured wines and the 2010 has all of these traits in spades. Giving up a massive array of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: Tasting like the concentrated blood from an aged and grilled strip steak the 2010 Ermitage Le Pavillon boasts a black/purple color along with creme de cassis camphor pen ink white flower and lead pencil shaving...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: The 2010 Ermitage l'Ermite (454 cases produced) is another perfect wine. Completely different than Le Pavillon l'Ermite is always slightly more austere. It comes from a 7.5-acre parcel of sandy granitic soils at the top...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: More concentrated and powerful, the 2010 Ermitage Les Greffieux is thrilling on all accounts. More of a long-term prospect than the ’11, it offers massive creme de cassis, scorched earth, graphite and crushed-rock like...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: (95 points) Gorgeous, with superb focus to the dark plum, fig and boysenberry fruit, lined with charcoal, singed iron and Maduro tobacco flavors. The ganache edge on the finish melds perfectly with the dense fruit and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Much more backwards, serious and structured, the 2010 Saint Joseph Les Granits is a longer- term prospect and needs 2-3 additional years in the cellar. Starting out tight and reserved, it slowly offers up notions of creme...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: I can’t say the same thing about the 2010 Cornas, as it’s crazily backwards, concentrated and structured, and needs some bottle age to round into form. Nevertheless, the incredible quality is present in its purity, focus...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2010 Cornas Champelrose exhibits a black/purple color along with a floral note and a terrific full-bodied texture with gorgeous ripeness purity and expansiveness. This savory full-throttle compelling Cornas will...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: Flirting with perfection the 2010 Cornas Les Eygats boasts a fabulous bouquet of incense subtle smoke black truffles pen ink blackberries and cassis. Massive with sweet tannin as well as an unreal skyscraper-like texture...