2005 Hermitage, Bernard Faurie

"Inky ruby. Dramatic bouquet of spicy red berries, baking spices, fresh flowers and minerals. The palate offers vibrant raspberry and candied cherry flavors, silky tannins and great spicy lift on the back end. For a serious vintage, this is incredibly pure, graceful and flat-out seductive, unless your idea of seduction is a pole dance."  Josh Raynolds, Vinous.com