"The splendid 1997 Cote Rotie Les Grandes Places reveals an impressively saturated opaque purple color. The nose offers up gorgeous quantities of super-ripe black raspberries blackberries toasty oak smoke and pain grille. Expansive and full-bodied with fabulous concentration outstanding purity and low acidity this is a hedonistic lush heady decadently styled Cote Rotie. Drink from 1999-2014." 90 Points Wine Advocate