2015 Côte-Rôtie La Landonne Côte-Brune Guigal

Absolutely massive - so big it's really difficult to see the flavour. It's all muscle, no flesh at the moment.

No destemming for this 100% Syrah plot planted in 1975. Its customary 42 months élévage in new oak has only recently begun; it will be on the market in 2019. Deep, inky, straight in style with deep, dark blackberry fruits all saturated with velvet tannins. Extremely concentrated yet retains a remarkable sense of freshness and vibrancy, this will undoubtedly be an epic Guigal La Landonne. 2025-2050.

This is a profound wine, offering really striking depth of aromas and flavors with a resonance that really stops you still. Dark stones, ripe dark plums and blackberries, licorice, sarsaparilla, orange peel and cloves with still more spices floating in the midst. The palate has such perfectly captured intensity of ripe dark plums and blackberries that it is seemingly impenetrable for now. Yet, the detail is all here. It builds and fills the palate completely with ripe, espresso-laced blackberries, black cherries and dark plums and delivers such freshness at the finish. This is a triumph and up there with the greatest La Landonne releases. Try from 2027.

As majestic and regal as they come, the 2015 Côte Rôtie La Landonne is another perfect wine. A powerful, full-bodied, massively concentrated Côte Rôtie, it reveals a saturated purple color as well as an insane bouquet of smoked meats, graphite, liquid rocks, violets, and crème de cassis. It's tannic as all hell, yet deep and flawlessly balanced, with no hard edges and a huge finish. It's going to require a decade of cellaring to be drinkable but will keep for 40-50 years in cool cellars.

Impenetrably dense and dark, the 2015 Cote Rotie La Landonne is loaded with black olive, espresso and cassis fruit. It's full-bodied, rich and velvety in texture and nearly endless on the finish, yet it never seems overbearing or overripe, remaining vibrant and fun from start to finish. Right now, the tannins are prominent, giving the wine a dry, dusty sendoff, so give it a decade to mellow before opening a bottle.

Red Almost brooding, with warm dark currant, fig and blackberry paste flavors simmering at the core, while waves of ganache, espresso, roasted mesquite and juniper flow through and around them. All the elements are pulled through a seriously long finish by a bolt of smoldering cast iron. Will age glacially. Best from 2025 through 2050

Ulmende duft, lukket, flæsket, krydret, vibrerende mørk frugt med sort, stødt peber. Markeret tannin, ligger langt fremme, lige nu lidt udtørrende, men med meget stor frugt bag. Meget rig, elegant, rank, dyb med lang, lang eftersmag. Endnu alt, alt for ung, utrolig maskulin vin.