Duboeuf's Rhone Valley selections made their debut with the 1988 vintage, where he admirably demonstrated that his enormous talent for picking high quality cuvees of Gamay (for his Beaujolais) was just as prodigious when it came to picking Rhone Valley cuvees fashioned from Grenache, Cinsault, Mourvedre, and Syrah. For a lighter, fruitier, less muscular style of Cotes du Rhone, look for Duboeuf's 1990 Cotes du Rhone-Aires Vieilles. I just recently had a bottle of the 1989, which remains a lusty glassful of good, spicy, herb and berry-scented Cotes du Rhone. The 1990 is a bit lighter and softer than the 1989, and because of that it will probably have greater crowd-appeal. It should be drunk over the next 1-2 years.