2006 Côte-Rôtie, Barbarine, Domaine Gangloff

The passionate and talented producer Yves Gangloff owns a mere 5-acres of vines, located in Cote Rotie and Condrieu, but crafts suberb wines, aptly demonstrated by his 2006 Cote Rotie La Barbarine. This classy wine exhibits attractive nose of dark olives intermixed with plum jam, barbeque notes, and licorice scents. Ripe, dense, and spice-laden, with noticeable new oak, polished, rich Cote Rotie is now at its finest band until 2012.