Jean-Michel Stephan is a cult figure in Côte-Rôtie, crafting soulful, unadorned wines from old-vine parcels in the appellation’s steep schist slopes. Coteaux de Tupin comes from Stephan’s oldest vines, planted in 1981, on pure mica-schist terraces at the southern limit of Côte-Rôtie. Blackberry, violet, cured olive, smoked meat, cracked pepper and crushed stone.