Drink Date: 2026 - 2043
The 2023 Côte-Rôtie Améthyste was bottled only 15 days before my visit and is assembled from parcels in Côte Brune, Côte Blonde, Lancement, Chavaroche, Fongeant and Leyat, with around 50% whole clusters. It opens with aromas of ripe yet fresh dark fruits—blueberry and black cherry—accented by a touch of pepper and becoming markedly floral with aeration. Medium- to full-bodied, it’s fleshy, round and enveloping, offering fine volume and tension, supported by welcome acidity that brings freshness and lift. The tannins are beautifully velvety, leading to an ethereal, floral finish marked by notes of black cherry and lilac. Already remarkably harmonious, it captures the identity of the vintage with precision, combining generosity, freshness and aromatic complexity in a particularly compelling way. Published: May 21, 2026
93 pts Vinous
Drink Date: 2027 - 2035
The 2023 Côte-Rôtie Améthyste begins to bloom with alluring orange rind, dried violets, gentle stemmy nuances and touches of raspberry. Medium-bodied and softly contoured, it is a convincingly elegant Améthyste, free of the rustic traits I found in the prior vintage. Utterly delicious and highly recommended, the 2023 finishes with refinement and a fresh, lively bite. - By Nicolas Greinacher, January 2026
***(*) JLL (John Livingstone-Learmonth)
Drink Date: 2026 - 2046
(tank, just before bottling this week) dark red; the nose bears a brothy, cooked black fruits’ aroma, prune implications, a sort of resident sweetness. The palate holds quietly soaked fruits, a supple texture, also discreet, flexible tannins, takes a correctly traditional route, shows late floral tones. It’s well rounded, a little plump, not far off OK. The tannins have a little fibre in them, the finish shows low-key iron. It’s sure ***(*), not far off ****. “It’s very accessible,” Agnès Levet. From autumn 2026. 2044-46 Oct 2025

The “house cuvée” is a selected blend from all the parcels that the Levet family owns. Produced in the same manner as “La Chavaroche” and “Les Journaries,” this bottling tends to be the most open and immediately seductive of the three versions of Levet Côte-Rôtie. This easiness is relative, of course, for this bottling still impresses. Levet’s typical smoky and savage character is here counterpointed by an elegant, floral, and wild-berry fruit. *in the USA, the name Amethyste does not appear on the label but is what the wine goes by in name