Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 'Emporium', Rhone, France 2020 Latour Martillac Still tight and rather closed

Still tight and rather closed on the nose

this is a wine to follow

with plush purple fruits and an abundance of silk

with vanilla and anise up front

compelling wine with the classic Pauillac nose more often associated with its cross-street neighbor

Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 'Emporium', Rhone, France 2020 Latour Martillac Still tight and rather closedInky violet color. An assertively perfumed bouquet displays an array of ripe red and blue fruit preserve, floral and spice qualities, alomg with suggestions of licorice, smoky bacon and mineral notes. Deftly blends depth and energy and offers sweet cherry, cassis, fruitcake and candied violet flavors that are sharpened by building mineral and spice flourishes. Shows superb clairity and mineral cut on a strikingly long, penetrating and youthfully