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• Mwc33 Likes this wine: 88 points

  September 24, 2023 - This starts off as heady stuff in the glass and on the nose - deep ruby with a garnet rim, and powerful aromas of black fruit, cedar, green bell pepper, and peppercorns. But on the palate, it shows why this is a $20-25 “everyday” bottle - despite some nice chewy tannins, good body, and decent acidity, the wine is somehow less than the sum of its parts. The flavors are fairly restrained for a syrah. Worked well enough with roasted sausage and veggies.

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• tward Likes this wine: 90 points

  November 5, 2022 - Very Good++/Excellent. This is right up my St. Joseph alley, nice fruit, but lean enough and with a upright body. Starts savory and joined with salted plum, blackberry, some raspberry, smoked meat, dry earth. This paired well with a cast iron steak but could easily pair with pork or chicken dishes.
  
  A fine value at $20 USD. It's not a wine to meditate on, but it's also not background music, keeping my attention when I wanted to pay attention.
  
  13% abv

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• Heynetty wrote:

  February 7, 2022 - A: Medium ruby
  N: Medium (+) nose of RIPE RED PLUM SKIN (sort of citrussy), cooked raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, liquorice, olives, dried thyme
  P: Touch of black pepper on the palate. Dry, medium (+) acidity, medium (+) silky tannin, high alcohol, medium (+) intensity, medium (+) body, medium (+) finish
  C: Some beautiful lush fruit here. Warm weather fruit condition with not a lot of great acidity. The follow through of these fruit and herbal clusters is good and and is of fine intensity consistent on both nose and palate. Not complex but very good quality wine. Its juicy and tastes very good.
  I would buy this again at $20/bottle from Kroger on 11thst.
  
  Drink up. I think if there were more secondaries in here and a little tertiary, I would be confident that this would improve with age. Its pretty straightforward fruit forward Syrah based wine. Not suitable for ageing.

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• jdkrabbe wrote: 89 points

  November 25, 2021 - Tasty bottle, more fruit than expected, ripe blackberry, opened alongside an aussie Shiraz to give a new vs old option at dinner. This bottle didn't exactly hit the old world stereotype but was nice, clearly syrah and clearly well made. Nuance was not exactly there but the arc of the palate was great and finish was pleasant. Some rotondon and dried herb notes when sought out of the flavour profile could be found but they were not dominant features of this bottle, the fruit was.
  
  Decanted about 90min, seemed sufficient.
  
  Paired : Thanksgiving dinner with roast pork. Great pairing.

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• EXPLORER 825 Likes this wine: 90 points

  August 20, 2021 - Purple-red in color, this wine exhibits moderate level of red fruit on the nose. Smooth texture on the palate with mild “peppery” notes on the finish

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Paul Jaboulet Aîné
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Le Grand Pompée
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation St. Joseph
• UPC Codes 3105711150161, 3105711150550

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• Pending Delivery 6 (2%)
• In Cellars 81 (32%)
• Consumed 168 (66%)

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