Community Tasting Note

• KeithAkers wrote: 86 points

  January 15, 2017 - Cassoulet with (mostly) Cote-Rotie&Hermitage (Jordan's, Northbrook IL): Nose: The nose shows intensity and some extraction with licorice, wood, vanilla, liqueur tones, black cherries, black tea, and black raspberries. There is good depth here, but the wood and extraction are a bit too noticeable.
  
  Taste: Full bodied with medium acidity and medium+ tannins. The tannins are a bit woody with the feel showing some extraction and intensity along with licorice, black cherries, wood, vanilla, liqueur, and black tea.
  
  Overall: The oak and extraction on this is certainly noticeable. The wine feels a bit forced and lacks elegance. This is drinking fine right now as it's hard to see the oak integrating with more time.

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3 Comments

• Seth Rosenberg commented:

  1/30/18, 2:25 PM - These wine just suck - no way around it. Overextracted and overoaked. It nearly a crime that Chapoutier has the terroir he has - just imagine what someone who actually knows how to make wine (Barge, Levet, Benetiere ...) could do with the dirt.

• jsmorris707 commented:

  1/31/18, 5:11 AM - IMHO, they need more cellar time to come together & shine; at 18-20 years Chapoutier's Ermitages are beautiful & as good as any syrah

• KeithAkers commented:

  1/31/18, 5:20 AM - jsmorris,
  
  while that is possible, I have a hard time seeing how the oak will successfully integrate in the next decade and I don't see the extraction giving way to something more balanced.
  
  A perfect contrast to this wine was the 05 Clape that was had at the same tasting. That too is a young wine, but it was also showing evolution that one would want at this young age and something that will give even more around the 20 year mark.
  
  ymmv

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