Guigal, La Mouline Cote Rotie 2018

100 points Jeb Dunnuck
"Scheduled to be bottled early in 2022, the 2018 Côte Rôtie La Mouline is a blockbuster of a wine offering full-bodied aromas and flavors of black raspberries, cassis, spring flowers, espresso, and violets. Coming from a steep, terraced, warmer terroir and fermented with 10% Viognier, it’s always the sexiest, more exotic, and seamless, as well as approachable, of the flagship releases. The 2018 will unquestionably pure a smile on your face as soon as it’s released, but it will ideally be given 7-8 years of bottle age and drunk over the following 30+ years."

100 points Wine Advocate
"The 2018 Cote Rotie La Mouline is immensely seductive, offering up enticing notes of floral potpourri and red berries on the nose. Those strawberries and raspberries persist onto the full-bodied palate and through the long, lush finish, buoyed by supple, creamy-textured tannins. This is the most complete, compelling vintage of La Mouline I've tasted."

Jancis Robinson
"Cask sample. Very closed nose. Super-svelte texture, but seems to have a certain reluctance to show its full range at present. There's potential here, but only time will tell to what extent. The score anticipates the best-case scenario. 18+/20 points. (RH)"