Jeb Dunnuck (JD) — 89/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com · Drink 2015 - 2025
The 2005 Cote Rotie les Grandes Places is a savory, mature Cote Rotie that offers the classic graphite, smoked earth and minerality of the site, as well as notes of plum sauce, hoisin and licorice. Medium to full-bodied, fully mature and with a firm edge to its tannin, I don’t see it getting any better, but it should hold for upwards of a decade.