Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
8/27/2017 - ahubner Likes this wine: 100 pointsFantastic!!!! Ready to drink |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
4/29/2016 - runch30 wrote: 100 pointsOutstanding! Let it air for 4-5 hours and enjoy. |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
5/2/2016 - rnyrny79 Likes this wine: 100 pointsAbsolute perfect! And first wine ever to score 100 points! |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
11/11/2012 - Erwin BS Likes this wine: 100 pointsFirst wine to me for a 100pts rating. This wine has everything. Tons of fruit, dazzling complexity, ripe as hell but with great acidity. On the nose there is red fruit, spices, meat and you cant stop smelling this beauty. It enters your pallet like a bulldozer. The acidity adds tension and makes this a complete wine thats will last many many years. Try to get this, while it's still affordable! |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
7/30/2016 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 100 pointsA perfect score it is. At first sniff, this effort still leads to the cool efforts from Hermitage. Though the rich fruit and the overall complexity expose its true origin after a few minutes... To put it in a little more techincal phrasing, this effort reveals so much Syrah complexity I am just stunned. Despite being mostly Grenache, the expression of the Syrah component is just stunning. The first impression is abundance of white flowers and white pepper, but after a few minutes classical and luxurious dark fruit appears with perfect balance and elegance. The palate is totally clean, almost refreshing, shows an absolutely massive power, but it is also superbly kept together with a lot of promise for the future. Tannins are still harsh and expressive, yet soft and silky. This wine needs a good decant if served now. It is still very young... The finish just goes on and on, actually I can still remember the wine after several hours of finishing the bottle. I am totally blown away by the complexity shown tonight and I honestly still can only imagine what is to come. A tremendously good wine, which deserves all the merit it could ever get! |
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2009 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
3/30/2018 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 100 pointsA total stunner - actually one of the better Chateauneufs ever produced according to my humble palate. At first sniff, this effort brings me back to the cool efforts of Hermitage. But of course the ample fruit and the overall complexity expose its true origin rather soon. The combination of mostly Grenache with some Syrah added to it, is so complex and adds so many layers to the nose, any wine aficionado will get goose bumps. There are white flowers, white pepper, after a few minutes classical and luxurious dark fruit appear. Adding these components are a perfect balance as well as elegance. The palate is so clean and shows an absolutely massive power. However it is also kept tightly together - which proper cellaring will change in due course. Tannins come across as rather soft and silky tonight. The young harsh tannins are history, while the primary fruit is not. This wine still needs a good decant if served now. The finish just goes on and on and lasts in my memory for several days. The complexity and the mix of cool impressions with elegant heated Grenache power is just thrilling. A wonderfully good wine, which still deserves all the merit it could ever get! 4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
8/25/2013 - pacificoast wrote: 100 pointsIf this bottle is any indication, this magnificent wine is coming out of its dumb phase quite beautifully. A robust, peppery nose hints at a very deep, relentlessly earthy palate of chocolate, pepper, black cherry and notes of liquorice. I highly recommend at least a 2-to-3 hour decant, the flavors mellow and refine nicely after having been cooped up under the cork. This wine deserves every accolade it's received, from what remains one of the most stellar vintages in the southern Rhone in several generations. Highly recommended. |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
10/7/2013 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 100 pointsMy birthday week is the perfect opportunity (or excuse?) to decant (one hour) another bottle. Black color lurks in the dusky purple robe. With swirling, a vibrant and complex nose emerges of black fruits, anise, rosemary, sage, pepper, coffee beans, dark chocolate and just a hint of funk. Broad and full-bodied, the wine coats the mouth with glycerin viscosity. The concentrated ripe fruit, coffee and olive flavors are huge, almost decadent, and are enlivened by juicy uplifting acidity. The long-lasting finish is rich and creamy and laced with plums, herbs, cocoa and minerals and the big and sweet tannins scarcely call attention to themselves. How can something this powerful be so seamless, effortless and balanced? This very young wine will surely get better with time, but even in its infancy it inspires awe. Happy birthday to me. 100 points. (And I still want 10 cases just for me!) |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
2/13/2011 - pacificoast wrote: 100 pointsOne of the most fantastic wines from this monumental vintage of Chateauneuf du Pape, and surely a great investment in a case or two for one's cellar. Incredibly smooth and focused, precise balance of flavor that builds to a spectacular finish that just goes on and on. Very deep purple color, magnificent aromas of blueberry, blackberry, lavender. This is one of those highly versatile wines that is perfectly drinkable now, yet will evolve and develop even more with the benefit of extended cellaring. Very unctuous, smooth, creamy and full-bodied. I brought a bottle to one of Las Vegas' Michelin-starred restaurants, and invited our highly knowledgeable sommelier to try some with us. He was clearly very impressed, so much so that he shared his glass with the chef, who gave us his compliments for an outstanding choice. This is one of those wines where I'd buy all that I could afford, they rarely get much better than this. |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
7/8/2013 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 100 pointsThis wine has it all--in spades! Decanted four hours. The color is very deep purple. Even after the long decant, the aromas emerge slowly with vigorous swirling. On display is the full panoply of primary scents—cherries, plums, violets, garrigue, rosemary, licorice, sage, coffee and just the suggestion of animal. The flavors (again plums, cherries and coffee) are huge and deep and are balanced by cutting acidity and sweet tannins. This is some big stuff and the finish lasts a minute. Despite its size and weight the wine is neither heavy nor tiring. It remains lithe and lissome. Perfect. Wish I had ten cases just for myself. 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2009 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
3/28/2013 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 100 pointsSometimes I feel blessed. Blessed to be alive. Blessed to be well. Tonight I feel blessed I have one of the world's best wines in the glass. The 2009 Janasse Vieilles Vignes is as perfect tonight as last time I tasted it. There are no flaws at all, except a bit of youth. No heat, no residual sweetness, no disintegration. The wine is simply profound! 8 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (5) |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
7/25/2014 - Philippe_C wrote: 100 pointsA clear 100 pointer!! Very powerful nose of dark ripe cherries, licorice, characoal... sweet tannins, loads of ripe dark berries, perfect acidity, perfect minerality... perfect wine that goes on and on!! Everybody on the table loved it!! |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
12/15/2017 - Pianojim wrote: 100 pointsLast one from the cellar. What a gorgeous monumental wine. Powerful but ethereal. Endless on the palette. Deep aromas that take you back again. and again. Drank with a great friend, it just blew us away. What great wine was meant to be. Pure pleasure. |
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2017 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
12/24/2022 - Lynge Likes this wine: 100 pointsStill young but great! |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
3/9/2013 - Palette49 Likes this wine: 100 pointsPalette49 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
4/13/2016 - convex wrote: 100 pointsPerfect cdp. Perfect. |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
1/15/2013 - cr84 Likes this wine: 100 pointsLa Janasse at The Oxford Wine Circle (Oxford University): Atta kind of a wine! I would have made the trip to Oxford solely to taste this natural beauty. It extremelly more powerful and even more compex than the Chaupin of the same vintage; this Janasse Vieilles Vignes 2010 just blew my senses away. Scientifically...it has everything you would like to get from Chateauneuf-du-Pape vieilles vignes, Period. 6 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
8/10/2020 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 100 pointsThe nose is all ripe plum, wood smoke, anise and sous bois. The flavors of blackberry, plum, coffee, mushroom and iron-rich soil are quite huge on the palate. At the same time these flavors are expansive, multi-layered and verging on the voluptuous. And the tannins are soft, sexy and perfectly poised to support a wine of this size and richness. The balance is superb! The wine is so delicious and instantly satisfying that it verges on the hedonistic. I have followed it since its release and can report that it is drinking at its peak. It also promises at least a dozen more years of great unbridled drinking pleasure. Tonight it is once again perfection in a glass. |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
8/30/2009 - Philippe_C wrote: 100 pointsExplosive nose of pain d'épices, black cherries jam, mineral, meaty, whaouw, waouw!!!.... Mineral and extremely powerfull ripe red fruit, absolutely amazing wine, at the same time tons of ripe fruit, but not heavy at all, just great wine!! |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
6/18/2021 - wizlb wrote: 100 pointsThis is a pop and pour story of a 14 year old wine, Chateauneuf wine from Janasse Vieilles Vignes that’s beautiful. |
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2009 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
10/3/2014 - fdusonchet wrote: 100 pointsparfait! riche smooth iode minéral et interminable!!! |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
7/4/2013 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION Likes this wine: 100 pointsInky black/purple color with an enormous nose of sage, menthol, hot tar, and black cherry. Mouth coating black fruits, anise, and meat drippings. Endlessly juicy finish…young perfection. Paired with Lindy and Grundy pork chops marinated in white wine and an assemble of sweet spices. 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
2/10/2010 - Faryan wrote: 100 pointsPerhaps the most regal expression of Granache (whilst not 100% grenache like the Chaupin) one can find in CDP is the 07 Janasse VV. Tasted blind alongside 13 other heavy hitters, it bested them all (including Mon Aieul, CSJ VV, RdB, VT, VD etc...). It has such a purity and pitch to its fruit, with such laser like focus, it is truly remarkable. My only hesitation is its boisterous, loud nature makes it virtually impossible to match with food. I'd prefer various other 100 point expressions of wine over this, but that is a stylistic preference, not a condemnation of its quality. Opened 12 hours prior to pouring and tasted alongside 13 other peers blind. I recommend a 12-16 hour opening at cellar temperature (no decant) for this wine at this juncture. |
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2009 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
12/23/2021 - jnymann wrote: 100 pointsPerfect |
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2010 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
10/7/2018 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 100 points(Decanted for one hour.) So far I have gone through a case of this wonderful wine, and what a ride it has been! On this occasion I tasted it alongside the massive 2016 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes. Both are clearly outstanding wines, but in the end the 2010 comes out ahead. (For the time being, anyway.) Its perfumed nose is dominated by ripe strawberry and blackberry, garrigue, espresso, truffle and lapsang souchong tea. While full bodied and densely textured, it is remarkably light and nimble on the mid-palate with energetic flavors of strawberry and blackberry jam, ripe black plum, tapenade, Asian spices and mushroom. The ripe, fine-grained tannins perfectly frame the long, sweet and expanding finish. Showing growing complexity and nascent maturity, the wine is powerfully built, profoundly deep and breathtakingly long. Amazing! |