In 2013 the Jamet brothers split the family domaine, and Jean-Luc - the one who had spent his career out in the vineyards - walked away with half the vines and started over under his own name. Pirate is the wine he made to prove the point. It's his flagship: a blend assembled from across his Cote-Rotie holdings, weighted toward La Landonne, and he refused to bottle it until he was satisfied he'd found the right combination, with the 2016 the first release. Production runs to only a few hundred bottles a year, so it moves fast. The 2020 is full-bodied and structured, clearly built for the long haul - give it a decade and it will thank you. For anyone who loves the northern Rhone, this is a bottle worth the wait.