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• Why Yes wrote: 94 points

  May 23, 2011 - Wow. Put this in a lineup of greatest Rhones (new and old world, alike) and my guess is that it easily stands on the podium. Blind I would have a very, VERY difficult time calling the part of the world the wine hails from. My palate memory oscillates wildly between SQN, Cayuse and La Landonne--yes, it is that good.
  
  In one sip I get the toasty oak-slathered, fruity wonderfulness of SQN; the next the stony, feral, black-fruited intensity of Crisophe Baron's wines; finally there is an ever present bloody/tanned leather flavor to the wine that I mark as La Landonne. The mouthfeel is all old world, with a lightness in weight, that carries a marked tannic kick.
  
  My only gripe with this wine is that it DOES show the sur-maturite character this vintages is so well known for. Not in a sloppy or goopy way, but in flavors that are probably less fresh than this wine would show in other vintages.
  
  All-in-all a fantstic effort that is a bargain at the $56 tariff.
  
  Bravo.

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