The deep ruby-colored 2001 Cotes du Rhone Villages- Chusclan offers up scents of plums, pomegranate, and black cherries with a gamy note in the background. With sweet fruit, medium body, and admirable definition, purity, elegance, and length, this mid-weight effort possesses plenty of black fruit and flower characteristics. Drink it over the next 2-3 years.
Importers: Louis/Dressner Selections, New York, NY; tel. (212) 319-8768; David Hinkle, North Berkeley Imports, Berkeley, CA; tel. (510) 848-8910; and Vintners Select.