Average deposit, mostly loose, some on the bottle. Deep red. Spicy, complex nose with some bottle complexity. Still fresh. Red plum and related ripe fruit flavours. Good weight though a little short. Some St. Joseph lifted aromatics. Mature but will perhaps evolve a little further and hold for a few years.
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Wonderful spicey, forest floor complexity on the nose. I keep going back and back and it doesn’t fade. Flows through to the palate. Rich, ripe Shiraz, but Rhone ripeness, not overblown Aussie ripeness. 13.5 alc. Black fruits refined by viognier and French oak and terroir. Beautifully complex aromas and flavours continue to emerge and build. There are much bigger Shiraz wines but few bring this wonderful endless and building complexity. 9 years in the bottle is a factor, but it’s the entree. Many years l like this ahead of it.
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Developing black fruit nose. Developing a lovely lift. Nicely developing palate. Plenty of acid and tannin for it to age. Good though not great length. Day 2 not showing more devt. But opened up in the glass. A lovely wine.
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Pulled from the cellar mistaken for a different/cheaper wine. Damn, this was a mighty fine St. Joseph! Elegant, moderately complex midpalate with subtle power on either end. Drink or hold. Would buy again ~$40.
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Almost smells as if there's a dollop of Viognier in it with a whiff of apricot to the aroma. It is ripe with juicy blackberry and blood plum fruit. There's some spice and earth and the palate is creamy and round. There's just a hint of green bean under the flesh and it finishes with supple tannins and is quite long.
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Midsummer barbecue w/ A&M (Mörby): Open, black-fruity nose with lots of vanilla and lactic stuff going on at the moment, besides the expected syrah markers. Low-acid taste profile with smooth ripe tannins and a baby-fat mouthfeel. Good material here, but better wait until 2017-18 or so for the structure to show. Not certain about the oak regime at this domaine though, it may be too much for our tastes.
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2011 Coursodon reds with Caviste (Grappe, Stockholm): Nose with ripe dark berries, some tar and spice notes, discrete oak notes. Palate with ripe dark berries, good concentration of fruit, mineral, good acidity, medium(+) tannins, some firmness. Young, reasonably accessible now, but would gain from cellaring.
Compared to 2011 Silice, this wine is a little darker and more powerful in the nose, but on the palate it is primarily more firm and "classic".
I'd recommend drinking it either before the "tunnel" (2014-2015) or after it has emerged from it (2019-)
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8/23/2023 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 91 Points
Average deposit, mostly loose, some on the bottle. Deep red.
Spicy, complex nose with some bottle complexity. Still fresh.
Red plum and related ripe fruit flavours. Good weight though a little short. Some St. Joseph lifted aromatics. Mature but will perhaps evolve a little further and hold for a few years.
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12/15/2020 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wonderful spicey, forest floor complexity on the nose. I keep going back and back and it doesn’t fade.
Flows through to the palate. Rich, ripe Shiraz, but Rhone ripeness, not overblown Aussie ripeness. 13.5 alc. Black fruits refined by viognier and French oak and terroir. Beautifully complex aromas and flavours continue to emerge and build. There are much bigger Shiraz wines but few bring this wonderful endless and building complexity. 9 years in the bottle is a factor, but it’s the entree.
Many years l like this ahead of it.
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4/8/2018 - AndersThoresson wrote: 88 Points
Black and blue berry juice. Very smooth. Oak still a tad too present for my taste.
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3/1/2017 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 93 Points
Developing black fruit nose. Developing a lovely lift. Nicely developing palate. Plenty of acid and tannin for it to age. Good though not great length.
Day 2 not showing more devt. But opened up in the glass. A lovely wine.
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10/16/2016 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 92 Points
Restrained but still good weight and flavour. Well structured. Now - 2020
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2/9/2016 - silton Likes this wine: 91 Points
Pulled from the cellar mistaken for a different/cheaper wine. Damn, this was a mighty fine St. Joseph! Elegant, moderately complex midpalate with subtle power on either end. Drink or hold. Would buy again ~$40.
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7/11/2014 - richard.presser wrote: 93 Points
Lovely, lifted, spicy, complex nose.
Medium, complex palate. Good length. Good food wine.
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9/19/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Almost smells as if there's a dollop of Viognier in it with a whiff of apricot to the aroma. It is ripe with juicy blackberry and blood plum fruit. There's some spice and earth and the palate is creamy and round. There's just a hint of green bean under the flesh and it finishes with supple tannins and is quite long.
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6/21/2013 - Finare Vinare wrote: 90 Points
Midsummer barbecue w/ A&M (Mörby): Open, black-fruity nose with lots of vanilla and lactic stuff going on at the moment, besides the expected syrah markers. Low-acid taste profile with smooth ripe tannins and a baby-fat mouthfeel. Good material here, but better wait until 2017-18 or so for the structure to show. Not certain about the oak regime at this domaine though, it may be too much for our tastes.
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4/10/2013 - Vintomas wrote:
2011 Coursodon reds with Caviste (Grappe, Stockholm): Nose with ripe dark berries, some tar and spice notes, discrete oak notes. Palate with ripe dark berries, good concentration of fruit, mineral, good acidity, medium(+) tannins, some firmness. Young, reasonably accessible now, but would gain from cellaring.
Compared to 2011 Silice, this wine is a little darker and more powerful in the nose, but on the palate it is primarily more firm and "classic".
I'd recommend drinking it either before the "tunnel" (2014-2015) or after it has emerged from it (2019-)
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