Jean-Michel Gerin, Cote Rotie Landonne

Jean-Michel Gerin, Cote Rotie LandonneGlass staining purple. A heady, complex bouquet suggests red and dark berry compote, sandalwood and cola, with a sexy note of Asian spices adding lift. Rich but lively, offering sweet black raspberry and floral pastille flavors braced by smoky minerality. Closes with subtle tannic grip, leaving blackberry and cherry cola notes behind. Josh Raynolds

cherry and soft earth nuances

This Bolgheri blend is contained and subdued in comparison

dark chocolate and toasted espresso

aniseed and black truffles

backward and brooding finish

elegantly toasty finish

This magnificent Chevalier should be a genuine stunner in 12 to 15 years

The powerful and impressively concentrated broad-shouldered flavors brim with both sappy dry extract as well as plenty of minerality that suffuses the wonderfully complex and persistent finish

airy and relatively elegant red berry fruit

earth and floral-suffused nose

There is also a pronounced

The alcohol content is a bit much at 15%