Xavier Gerard, Cote Rotie Size:6x750ml Gaja’s wines are often immensely

Gaja’s wines are often immensely appealing when young – which is certainly the case with the 2007s – but then close down in bottle for a number of years

There is fine punch and mid-palate concentration on the delicious

Moderate wood works with the softly spicy and distinctly earthy red berry fruit aromas where a hint of crushed herbs surfaces

This is more complex if not quite as elegant with a densely fruited nose of red current and cherry

Xavier Gerard, Cote Rotie Size:6x750ml Gaja’s wines are often immenselyGrard's 2015 Cote Rotie (tasted from a 375 milliliter bottle) is in a good place right now. Dense, concentrated and creamy textured, it evokes the vintage's warm character, delivering black cherries and black olives in equal measure. Full bodied and velvety in feel, it might lack a bit of elegance, but it delivers plenty of flavor. Drink it over the next decade.