Rostaing Côte-Rôtie La Landonne 2022

95-97 points Jeb Dunnuck: "The 2022 Côte Rôtie La Landonne ratchets everything up a notch, offing a darker, meaty style in its smoked black fruits, raw steak, ground pepper, and graphite notes. It's medium to full-bodied and has ripe, polished tannins and terrific overall balance. (3/28/24)"

95 points Matt Walls (Decanter): "Remarkably soft on the palate for La Landonne, it doesn't have the same austere impact at this stage as a more classic vintage. Tannins are soft, ripe and not as intense as usual, but it does have length and ripe black fruit, with a graphite element to the tannins. Acidity is on the low side, as is the alcohol. From parcels planted at different times with an average age of 40 years. Drink: 2027-2039. (Sep 2023)"

93-95 points Nicolas Greinacher (Vinous): "The 2022 Côte-Rôtie La Landonne was fermented entirely with whole-clusters and is maturing in roughly 15% new oak. Orange blossom, raspberry, cranberry, violets, cedar and pencil shaving build into the structured, complex finish. Although showing well on this occasion, the Côte Brune and Côte Blonde appear to have a slight edge in 2022. Drink: 2028-2042. (Oct 2023)"

94 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2022 La Landonne from Domaine Rostaing is a fine young bottle of Côte-Rôtie in the making. Like all of Pierre Rostaing’s top wines in this vintage, the La Landonne has a firm chassis of tannin that will have to be waited out before the wine starts to drink with generosity. It delivers a refined aromatic constellation of cassis, pepper, coffee bean, hung game, stony soil tones, black olive, incipient notes of hazelnut, a discreet touch of cedar and a very smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, chewy and shows off outstanding depth at the core, with fine soil transparency and grip, firm tannins and fine balance on the very long, structured and promising finish, At least at this early stage, this looks likely to need a few years longer in the cellar than the Côte Blonde before it will start to drink well. 2041-2085. (Sep/Oct 2024)"