The impressive, opulent, deep purple-colored 2000 Cotes du Luberon Bastide de Rhodares possesses sweet fruit, toasty oak (one-third new barrels are used), and a juicy, succulent, long finish. It should drink well for a decade. P.S. I have been purchasing Tardieu-Laurent's wines since 1995, and given the fact that they are neither fined nor filtered, have found that after an early period of being closed, after six months rest in the United States, they emerge to reveal wines every bit as exciting as my ratings have suggested. This is a magical source of great Rhone Valley wines.Importers: Martin Scott Wines, Little Neck, NY; tel. (516) 327-0808 and Stacole Fine Wines, Boca Raton, FL; tel. (561) 998-0039