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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2026 (based on 110 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 89 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Night Train on 11/10/2021 & rated 89 points: Nice old-school N Rhone Syrah. Plenty of grilled meat, minerals, garrigue, etc. Relative lack of testosterone suggests that I've held onto these a little too long and that it's time to drink up. (439 views) | | | Tasted by yipen on 9/11/2020: an excellent pairing to lamb chop. fresh berry but feel lite on alcohol. have some earthy mineral tone. (539 views) | | | Tasted by PFLK on 5/7/2020 & rated 90 points: Ready to drink. Powerful and rustic north rhone syrah. A dry and earthy syrah with animalistic touch. If you like old school syrah. (661 views) | | | Tasted by wayfarer on 2/16/2020 & rated 90 points: Very nice. Fully integrated, moderate full and rich, if not especially complex or layered. Red fruit, cherry, some light spice and herb, earth notes, savory and fruit nicely blended. (757 views) | | | Tasted by wayfarer on 10/12/2019 & rated 90 points: Much as previous bottle, very nice, tasty fruit, all is in balance, moderate full body, reasonable depth and length. (776 views) | | | Tasted by wayfarer on 11/25/2018 & rated 89 points: Decanted 45 minutes. Lovely rich red in glass, moderate weight, moderate length. Red fruit, cherry, bit of spice, wood, earth. Well integrated tannin, well balanced, so judging from earlier notes, bottle time is smoothing it out a bit. Tasty if not especially expressive nose or deep palate. Is great qpr from off year sale price. (695 views) | | | Tasted by anstruletz on 6/13/2018: Initial reductive notes blew off after double decant. Meat, mushrooms, blueberries, and rose pedals. Great QPR. (747 views) | | | Tasted by RedLorri on 2/12/2018 & rated 88 points: Nice cherry and spice flavours. Good tannins. A touch young perhaps, might be better in a year but not too much later than that I imagine. Would happily drink again (745 views) | | | Tasted by chibaken on 2/9/2018 & rated 88 points: Mineral, earth, cherry nose, smells austere. More cherry on palate, earth, mushroom, and good medium length grippy tannins. As previous reviewer inferred there's something not quite balanced about this but I like it. Good value. (654 views) | | | Tasted by Rezy13 on 1/6/2018: I’m beginning to really like younger Northern Rhône in “off” years, this shows a mushroom and blueberry mix of fruit and mildew, maybe not the healthiest grapes but a delicious complexity and silkiness to the soft and lithe texture that gives this great drinkability, blowing black pepper and some tar; flawed but lovely; drink soon. (795 views) |
| By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, Northern Rhône: Solid â’14 Reds and Outstanding â’15 Whites (Jul 2017) (7/1/2017)
(Saint Cosme Saint-joseph Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, 2014 and 2013 Northern Rhône: Great Wines If You Can Find Them (Mar 2016) (3/1/2016)
(Château De Saint Cosme Saint-joseph) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Saint Cosme Producer website - Read more about Saint Cosme Cote Rotie Rhone Wines - Read more about Chateau de Saint Cosme Producer page on Importer websiteSyrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. 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 ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMES |
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