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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96.4 pts. and median of 97 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ERU on 1/18/2024 & rated 97 points: Quick decant (30 minutes?) in restaurant setting. Needed more, but still soooo good. Excited to try since I’m looking to get some 2019 DEM and wanted a confirmation of my ravenous thirst.
I agree with much of RhoneWho’s note, especially with the 2016 being more unctuous. (In a good way—bring it on.) With my 2019 DEM experience being a little over a year later, I can say this still needs some time. Pepper and black fruits from Mourvèdre, brightness from the Grenache. I want to see how much this “digs in” with more cellar time. I like my CdPs with Mourvedre deeeeeep—think Mariana Trench. With some leviathan or Lovecraftian entity. DEEP. This can go there for sure. Had first glass alone, second glass with Asian-spiced steak. Great both times.
I am wondering what vintage of DEM will be the last with Philippe Cambie being involved. We should have a handful of years more? (1143 views) | | | Tasted by Avicenne on 4/22/2023 & rated 97 points: Clos St-Jean Deus-ex machina 2019
Avec excellente picanha bbq.
J’ai deja eu quelques expériences avec la Combe des fous 2015, mais première avec cette cuvee. Une licorne qu’on chasse aux loteries.
2019 est une super année en Rhone.
60% grenache vieilles vignes 1905 elevee en cuve béton, 40% mourvedre en barrique neuve.
Sur le laurier, garrigues, poivre, cinq épices. C’est exubérant et complexe. La bouche est longue, dense, tannins granuleux, jolis amers.
Me fait penser a un Beaucastel aux stéroïdes.
La Combe des fous fait beaucoup plus vanillé et cerise. Celui ci est plus dans un style provençal. (1898 views) | | | Tasted by RhoneWho on 12/26/2022 & rated 99 points: After drinking 2016 DEM at CDP, I bought up the remaining case of 2019 vintage at a local wine store as DEM is one of favorite CDPs. The flavor profile reminds me a lot of Janasse Vieilles Vignes, which is also a blend. We drank both 2019 DEM and La Combe Des Fous (LCDF) side by side as both were rated perfect scores by JD. Review on LCDF will be on a separate note.
Like the 2016, the 2019 DEM beauty can be enjoyed by itself without food. It's one of the best CDPs i have had from many vintages; and is definitely a step up from its 2017 vintage. This beauty (a blend of 60% Grenache and 40% Mouverdre) is really an elegant and harmoniously balanced wine with the grenache driving the aromatics and mouvedre driving the flavor profile brilliantly! The only difference of 2019 from the 2016 is that it still needs a few more years to settle down and shed its baby fat (resolve its structural youthfulness) before reaching its perfection.
Bouquet: Very long uplighting perfume of sweet, ripe rich darker (blue) fruit with subtle garrigue notes driven by Grenache component. The aromatics lingers for long long time! Darn memorable.
Palate: Weightless, pure yet concentrated ripe dark blue fruit intermixed with subtle cocoa and herbs (driven by Mourvedre) flavor.
Texture: Seamless super-fine tannins with acidity masked under juicy rich dark fruit flavor. This wine is velvet, and full body resulting in a very long and supple finish. The 2019 is not as unctuous as the 2016 which could reflect the vintage.
Keywords: Elegant, Balance, Uplighting rich aromatics
Scoring range: 98-100; 98+ (2458 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 8/9/2022: Second Tuesday club - 2019 Rhone Valley Red and Whites (Le Petit Flor Restaurant, Sydney): Ripe, rich, dense, baked red over black fruit, a little strawberry and a meaty note with time in the glass. In the mouth it's dense, jammy but savoury, thick, alcoholic, rustic, a bit rough, alcohol carries the finish. Woof after the last bracket. (2727 views) | | | Tasted by Sonoma-W on 2/12/2022 & rated 98 points: Wow! Incredibly well rounded - intense dark fruit; no hard edges (2052 views) |
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U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)
The Domaine was founded around 1900 by Edmond Tacussel. However, in 1910 "Clos Saint Jean" was actually created with the registering of the brand. The vineyard has expanded through the generations - in 1920 by Edmonds’ son, Leopold Tacussel, in 1930 by Edmond’s son-in-law Camille Maurel and in 1957 by his grandson Guy Maurel. When Guy passed away in 1982, his wife Jocelyne Maurel who gave up her teaching position, together with their two sons, Vincent and Pascal (great grandsons of Edmond), took over the management of the family domaine with some of the best situated vines in all of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, all in the area of La Crau. Jocelyne Maurel died in November 2003. In 2002, Philippe Cambie had been hired as consulting oenologist/viticulturist, and he is (as is well-known to readers of Robert Parker’s writings), one of the greatest oenologists of Chateauneuf. Up until early September, the year 2002 was one of the most promising vintages in recent times, but a disastrous flood ruined the vintage. The Maurels sold off the entire crop to negociants and made no wine. In 2003, the brothers and Mr. Cambie were ready and nailed down the 2003 vintage to perfection. What they did was a little counter-intuitive (following the calamity of 2002) and took enormous courage — they waited, and waited, to pick. Even though 2003 was a hot year, with high sugars early on, they did not succumb to the temptation to pick the crop before it might rain, and instead held off. They started picking in late September, when virtually everyone else had finished. The wines all display supreme physiological and phenolic ripeness, without notes of surmaturity or over-ripeness. They are all deeply colored, rich and profound, even at an early stage.Red Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Southern Rhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Southern Rhone Valley
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation - Read more about Chateauneuf du Pape
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"As I have written many times in the past, the sweet spot for drinking Châteauneuf du Papes is usually the first 5-6 years after the vintage. Then they seem to go through an adolescent, awkward, and sometimes dormant stage, only to re-emerge around year 10-12, where the majority of wines are often fully mature. The best of them will continue to hold on to life (but rarely improving) beyond 15-20 years. It is only the exceptional Châteauneuf du Papes that will evolve for 20-25+ years, and those are indeed a rarity. However, things may be improving dramatically in terms of the longevity of Châteauneuf du Pape, although Grenache-dominated wines, the vast majority of wines produced in the appellation, are wines that do not have the polyphenol (extract and tannin) content of top Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, or Syrah-based wines. Nevertheless, the younger generation in Châteauneuf du Pape has taken seriously the farming in the vineyards. There are more organic and biodynamically run vineyards here than in any other appellation of France. The yields, which were already low, are even lower today (20-35 hectoliters per hectare), and of course, the proliferation of top luxury and/or old-vine cuvées gives a significant boost to the number of wines that will evolve past 25 or 30 years. The advantage of these wines is their broad window of drinkability." - Robert Parker
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