As for the single vineyard wines, they are all excellent in 1993, but more herbaceous and clearly marked by the green pepper smells of slightly underripe Syrah. I thought the 1993 Cote Rotie La Turque to be good, with a deep ruby colour, and an intense olive, vanillin, sweet black fruit character. Dry tannin, green pepper aromas, and some toughness in the finish (which should dissipate with another year or two of bottle age) are obvious. The wine displays a healthy dark rubypurple colour, good sweetness on the attack, and a compressed finish because of the astringent level of tannin.
