Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 'Emporium', Rhone, France 2020 Latour Martillac crystalline finish

crystalline finish

compelling wine with the classic Pauillac nose more often associated with its cross-street neighbor

with vanilla and anise up front

The wine shows excellent complexity and balanced intensity that is well-suited to long cellar aging

this is a wine to follow

Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 'Emporium', Rhone, France 2020 Latour Martillac crystalline finishInky violet color. An assertively perfumed bouquet displays an array of ripe red and blue fruit preserve, floral and spice qualities, alomg with suggestions of licorice, smoky bacon and mineral notes. Deftly blends depth and energy and offers sweet cherry, cassis, fruitcake and candied violet flavors that are sharpened by building mineral and spice flourishes. Shows superb clairity and mineral cut on a strikingly long, penetrating and youthfully