Millésime 2001

Wine Advocate #156 - Dec 2004

Score : (93-95)

The 2001 Cote Rotie La Landonne exhibits scents of new saddle leather, black truffles, melted road tar, vanilla, blackberries, and licorice in a primitive/Neanderthal style with huge tannin, intense concentration, and nearly mouth-searing firmness and toughness. Extremely powerful, rich, and backward, it will be drinkable between 2011-2030. Drink: 2011 - 2030. Robert Parker.

Wine Spectator - Web Only - 2011

Score: 96

Though not as open as the La Mouline, this is is starting to show an impressive range of Turkish coffee, roasted mesquite, singed iron and mulled currant aromas. The densely packed core has blueberry, blackberry and anise in reserve, while the seriously tannic finish may be the longest of the three "La La" wines in this vintage. -Non-blind 2001 Côte-Rôtie retrospective (April 2011). Best from 2019 through 2030. 800 cases made. James Molesworth.

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar - Jan/Feb 03

Score : 95-98

Good full ruby. Explosive aromas of blackberry, blueberry, black olive and leather. The densest of these 2001s by far but also surprisingly pliant, and already showing extraordinary inner-mouth perfume of black fruits, black pepper and black olive. Finishes with great spreading tannins and superb lift and length. The perfume lingered for minutes in my empty glass. Another extraordinary La Landonne in the making. Stephen Tanzer.
 

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar - Jan/Feb 05

Score : 94-97

Deep ruby-red. Roasted currant, pepper, minerals and gunflint on the nose, with a distinctly medicinal austerity. Then impressively dense but imploded, with great intensity of dark fruit and pepper flavors. Still a bit youthfully spiky, but very pure, juicy and long. My sample had not been racked since February of 2003 but was not especially reduced. Offers great potential. Stephen Tanzer.

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar - Jan/Feb 06

Score : 97

Saturated inky ruby color. Forceful, deeply concentrated nose features remarkably pure aromas of cherry liqueur, fresh blackcurrant, pipe tobacco, truffle, espresso, violet pastille, rose and exotic oak spices. A wine of incredible depth and sweetness, with almost painfully intense dark berry and plum flavors that expand and gain richness as the wine opens in the glass. Sappy and wonderfully long; shows a dense tannic structure but there's so much fruity and spicy intensity that the wine seems downright lush. Exotic Asian spices linger endlessly in the mouth, along with a sweet flavor of creme de mure. Josh Raynolds.