“… There is a smoke house debut to the nose, multiple layers of black fruit and a smoked fish angle, black olives also, bacon. Gunflint and rock face come in to the picture. It is a stimulating start. The palate bears fine, nicely dense juice with never a false step. This lengthens with great sureness, is a stylish, pedigree wine that offers lots of tasty appeal, with a rocky frame, all very Landonne, around it … This is an absorbing wine … very close to ******.”

“The prodigious 2010 Cote Rotie La Landonne reveals a dense purple color along with a huge, impressive perfume of roasted meats, black currants, black raspberries and scorched earth. This 100% Syrah comes from vines planted on exceptionally steep slopes composed of schist and iron-like sub-soils. Some graphite also makes an appearance in this mineral-dominated, well-delineated, rich, intense wine.”