Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 2020 (750ML)

95 VM / 93-95 WA

Dark violet color. Potent, smoke-tinged red and dark berry, olive and licorice qualities on the sharply focused nose. Penetrating, spice-laced cherry-cola, blackberry and exotic spice flavors steadily deepen and become sweeter with air. The spice and floral notes recur an impressively long, energetic finish shaped by fine-grained and well-knit tannins.—Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media

I tasted barrels from a couple of the lieux-dits that will go into Faury's 2020 Cote Rotie, both of which impressed for their rich yet silky textures, floral overtones and concentrated fruit. Faury believes that 2020 is a great year in Cote Rotie, and these samples seem to support his theory.—Joe Czerwinski, The Wine Advocate