Wine Advocate April, 2002 The light-styled 2000 Cote Rotie exhibits peppery, herbes de Provence, and olive scents mixed with roasted meat and black currant fruit. This ripe, fleshy, and soft, this medium-weight offering is best consumed during its first ten years of life.

The light-styled 2000 Cote Rotie exhibits peppery, herbes de Provence, and olive scents mixed with roasted meat and black currant fruit. This ripe, fleshy, and soft, this medium-weight offering is best consumed during its first ten years of life. A Patrick Lesec Selection, various American importers, including Associate Wine Distributors of Napa, Atlantic Importing Co., Newton, MA; tel. (617) 965-2933, Fine Vines LLC, Maywood, IL; tel. (708) 343-5901, Stacole Imports, Boca Raton, FL; tel. (561) 998-0029, and New Castle Imports, Myrtle Beach, SC; tel. (843) 497-8625

Bright ruby-red. Complex aromas of roasted raspberry and black cherry, brown spices, meat and woodsmoke. Supple, spicy and rather easygoing, with the woodsmoke character carrying through in the mouth. Finishes with mellow, fine tannins and very good length. This is more pliant from bottle than it was from barrel a year ago, but doesn't quite have enough personality to merit a 90-point rating.