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Nice night... The 2001 Guigal Cote-Rotie "Brune et Blonde" is awesome... so earthy with notes of wet red meat, black pepper, dried saddle leather and tobacco with black cherries, black berries and raspberry. Very earthy and beautiful. The 2003 D'Arenberg Dead Arm Shiraz is really, really good. Loads of black pepper, baking spices and black fruit. Nice and jammy - like warm raspberry jam. Nicely balanced. The 2003 Guyon Chambolle-Musigny was terribly upsetting... this is not Chambolle. Chambolle is elegance, refinement - the Queen to Vosne-Romanee's King... seductive fruit, elegance tannins, and a silky mouthfeel. This example was hot (high-alcohol), over-ripe and didn't even shed a drop of elegance. Awful. The 2004 Jadot Vosne-Romanee "Les Suchots" on the other hand, was gorgeous. Always one of my favorite Premier Cru Burgundy vineyards (the other being Les Amouresses in Chambolle, Les Brulees in Vosne-Romanee, and Clos St. Jacques in Gevry-Chambertin), this was structured power. Very young, with oak that needs time to integrate (but it's not over-bearing) - the wine is velvet with an incredibly long finish for a 2004. Proves that great winemakers make great wine in any vintage.