($15, Ex Cellars Wine Agency):  This wine remains my benchmark for red Cotes du Rhone.  I am continually impressed by Guigal’s ability to make 250,000 cases of this high-quality wine year in and year out.  Of course, he is a great producer.  His single vineyard Côte Rôtie–La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque–are stunning, but he makes only about 300 cases of each.  And you could buy almost two cases of this Côtes du Rhône for the price of a single bottle of one of those wines.  His 2006 Côtes du Rhône is a hearty wine, as you’d expect from the usual blend of Mediterranean grapes, but not overblown.  Its classy combination of black fruit flavors and herbal spicy notes makes it a good choice for everyday drinking. 88 Michael Apstein Mar 30, 2010