Good Friday night wine swap with the gang. Tasted semi-blind. Drank in Grassl Cru. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour with slight garnet. Legs. Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of iron meat, leather, earth dark red cherries, black cherries, sauvage and strong sous bois with more air. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), structured integrated high tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of black cherries, blackberries, dark red cherries, dark leather, iron meat, coffee, mocha earth, some smoke even. Long finish. Very good quality. Masculine. The opposite of what some recent vintage Burgs have been described to be as "sissy". I was guessing ripe vintage ~2009 Gevrey 1er Lavaux/Estournelle. Ouch, nearly 10 years wrong.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Overly green and stemmy at first; the fruit and other savoury flavours emerge with some air as this becomes more pleasant, but the stalky greenness remains and while it's not bad with time, it's still a bit too vegetal for my taste.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Quite a full, meaty, lushly oaky nose and palate. Fruit covering the tannins far better than the previous bottle though there is still a slightly less than generous edge to the finish. Very nice indeed. ***1/2
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Served at 15C. Pale/medium garnet core, medium pale garnet rim. Sweet, initially quite fruity plum and red cherry nose, with some spice and game. Becoming more figgy and earthy as it warms, with minerally "hot race track" notes emerging. Medium bodied, with mellow, sweet fruit, some game and figgy notes, soft and harmonious on the mid-palate with decent intensity, weight and density, fresh acidity and a very good length finish. Becomes a little firmer on the finish with time. Very enjoyable and very ready.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Full colour and expressive nose. Quite animal. Lush attack, oak evident but fruit to cover it. Nice minerality and sauvage character to the finish, just about recognisablre as Gevrey. After a couple of hours though the wood tannins are very noticeable and the fruit isn't there to cover them. Open and drink before this dries out or will this last? Went very well with a jugged hare ***1/2
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Youthful colour. It has a bright, mineral attack, with light red fruit, quite delicate and precise, and with soft tannins providing a tasty finish. Drinking well now, but it feels at the start of its window. Enjoyable. vg+
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
St Jacques Burgundy Offline (Tom's Kitchen, Chelsea): Wow, strong animal, farmyardy nose, some rubbery type notes too - but just stays the right side of interesting. Similar on palate, some fine tannins evident. Slowly evolved and settled into something more fruity and conventional.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
4/2/2021 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 94 Points
Good Friday night wine swap with the gang. Tasted semi-blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour with slight garnet. Legs.
Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of iron meat, leather, earth dark red cherries, black cherries, sauvage and strong sous bois with more air. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), structured integrated high tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of black cherries, blackberries, dark red cherries, dark leather, iron meat, coffee, mocha earth, some smoke even. Long finish.
Very good quality. Masculine. The opposite of what some recent vintage Burgs have been described to be as "sissy". I was guessing ripe vintage ~2009 Gevrey 1er Lavaux/Estournelle. Ouch, nearly 10 years wrong.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2/5/2012 - salil wrote: 85 Points
Overly green and stemmy at first; the fruit and other savoury flavours emerge with some air as this becomes more pleasant, but the stalky greenness remains and while it's not bad with time, it's still a bit too vegetal for my taste.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
5/3/2010 - SimonG wrote:
Quite a full, meaty, lushly oaky nose and palate. Fruit covering the tannins far better than the previous bottle though there is still a slightly less than generous edge to the finish. Very nice indeed. ***1/2
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
6/23/2009 - Paul D wrote: 89 Points
Served at 15C. Pale/medium garnet core, medium pale garnet rim. Sweet, initially quite fruity plum and red cherry nose, with some spice and game. Becoming more figgy and earthy as it warms, with minerally "hot race track" notes emerging. Medium bodied, with mellow, sweet fruit, some game and figgy notes, soft and harmonious on the mid-palate with decent intensity, weight and density, fresh acidity and a very good length finish. Becomes a little firmer on the finish with time. Very enjoyable and very ready.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2/11/2009 - SimonG wrote:
Full colour and expressive nose. Quite animal. Lush attack, oak evident but fruit to cover it. Nice minerality and sauvage character to the finish, just about recognisablre as Gevrey. After a couple of hours though the wood tannins are very noticeable and the fruit isn't there to cover them. Open and drink before this dries out or will this last? Went very well with a jugged hare ***1/2
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/19/2009 - Jeff W wrote:
Youthful colour. It has a bright, mineral attack, with light red fruit, quite delicate and precise, and with soft tannins providing a tasty finish. Drinking well now, but it feels at the start of its window. Enjoyable. vg+
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/5/2007 - Paul D wrote:
St Jacques Burgundy Offline (Tom's Kitchen, Chelsea): Wow, strong animal, farmyardy nose, some rubbery type notes too - but just stays the right side of interesting. Similar on palate, some fine tannins evident. Slowly evolved and settled into something more fruity and conventional.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/5/2007 - SimonG wrote:
Gevrey Chambertin Clos/Lavax/Estournelles St Jacques Offline (Tom's Kitchen, London): Very farmyardy nose. Far tighter, more minerally, still some grip. Seems younger than the F.Esmonin E St J and better than might be expected for the vintage. 4
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment