Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Landonne 2015

100 points Joe Czerwinski (Wine Advocate): "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. Drink: 2028-2045. (Dec 2019)"

100 points Jeb Dunnuck: "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. Drink: 2030-2080. (12/12/19)"

100 points James Suckling: "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. (7/19/19)"

100 points Jeff Leve (The Wine Cellar Insider): "Off the charts levels of concentration, a wall of perfectly ripe tannins that feels so great, with its mesh of strength, balance and finesse. Wave after wave of perfectly ripe, palate staining fruit and a finish that bows past the 60 second mark! A legend in the making that will easily deliver the goods for over 50 years! (Feb 2019)"

100 points (20/20) Bettane & Desseauve Guide: "The most harmonious and refined of all the estate's wines in this vintage, with classy tannins and a lingering finish of chocolate and aromatic herbs, a velvety texture with great charm and excellent potential for bottle aging."

99 points Wine Spectator: "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. This should age glacially. Best from 2025 through 2050. 175 cases imported. (11/30/19)"

97 points Josh Raynolds (Vinous): "Deep, bright-rimmed purple. An exotically perfumed, expressive bouquet evokes dark fruit liqueur, spicecake, smoky bacon, incense, vanilla and incense. A sexy floral nuance emerges with air and carries onto the palate, which displays intense blueberry, cherry liqueur, candied licorice and floral pastille flavors that deepen and spread out steadily on the back half. The floral, bacon and mineral notes come back strong on a strikingly long, youthfully tannic finish, that leaves a juicy blue fruit note behind. Drink: 2027-2039. (Sep 2019)"

97 points (18.5/20) La Revue du Vin de France: "La Landonne is a very fine wine that needs to integrate its aging, and we applaud its substance and dimension. (2020)"

96 points Matt Walls (Decanter): "Very dark, very brooding, with some herbal bitters showing through on the nose. Bay, juniper, olive from the stems meets the incense and cola. Very full-bodied indeed, intense extraction with a powerful base, shot through with dense, fruit-saturated tannins. A very powerful and muscular wine with a very long, chewy finish, dry and savoury. This will take a long time to come round - will be hard to handle when young. Fermented in stainless steel, 40 months in new French oak barriques. Drinking Window: 2035-2047. (10/29/19)"