The largest cuvee (20000 bottles) is the 2010 Cote Rotie Classique Stephane Ogier's "greatest vintage to date." Seventy percent of the fruit comes from their holdings on the Cote Brune. It boasts a dense purple color along with a sweet nose of asphalt licorice forest floor blackberries cassis and bouquet garni sensational concentration and sweet tannins. The structure freshness and minerality suggest another 3-4 years of cellaring may be beneficial. It has 25 years of potential evolution. -Robert Parker