E. Guigal Cote Rotie La Landonne 2021 750ml

La Landonne is one of E. Guigal's three legendary single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, the famous "La La" trio, and typically the most powerful and structured of them. It is 100% Syrah from steep, iron-rich slopes on the Côte Brune in the northern Rhône, aged at length in new oak. The cooler, classically styled 2021 vintage earned 98 points from James Suckling, who praised intense power that is "channeled and restrained." Dark berries, plum, cocoa, bark, smoke and baking spices lead to a full-bodied, textural palate with fine-grained tannins and a long, focused finish. Patience is required: Suckling suggests drinking from 2030, and it should cellar for decades beyond that.