Community Tasting Note

Motz wrote:

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - Is great Châteauneuf-du-Pape better than great Gigondas? This Janasse represented exceptionally well, tasted alongside a same vintage Perrin Domaine du Clos des Tourelles, and a Brunel Sabrine CdR thrown in for good measure. This bottle was more open than the one tasted last September. It offered a bouquet of flowers, sweet berries, coco powder, fig cake, spice, kelp, cured meats, charred cork, tar, peat, umami, and coal, the most rustic of the three wines tasted. These essences came forward in complex layers on the palate, the sweeter notes giving way to the more earthy ones as the wine breathed. After three hours, the wine transitioned to a kelp, cured meat, and umami fest, with noticeable veins of smoke and tar. Uniquely balanced, audacious yet sublime, utterly delicious. There is no rush to drink these bottles, however, though densely packed with wondrous goodness, this was more open than the Gigondas, from the outset and throughout the evening.

Overall, though different, the two wines competed equally well, and two of the three fortunate tasters found the Gigondas slightly more appealing, though not 'better' per se. Also, whereas this wine should evolve and last for ten to twelve years, the density of the Gigondas suggested a fifteen plus year maturation curve. 95-96.

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