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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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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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 $20/bottle from Kroger on 11thst.
Drink up. I think if there were more secondaries in here and a little tertiary, I would be confident that this would improve with age. Its pretty straightforward fruit forward Syrah based wine. Not suitable for ageing.
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Tasty bottle, more fruit than expected, ripe blackberry, opened alongside an aussie Shiraz to give a new vs old option at dinner. This bottle didn't exactly hit the old world stereotype but was nice, clearly syrah and clearly well made. Nuance was not exactly there but the arc of the palate was great and finish was pleasant. Some rotondon and dried herb notes when sought out of the flavour profile could be found but they were not dominant features of this bottle, the fruit was.
Decanted about 90min, seemed sufficient.
Paired : Thanksgiving dinner with roast pork. Great pairing.
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Opened and drank right away. Nice purple in the glass. Medium bodied. Earthy tastes. A little peppery with flower taste. Light smoke finish. Long finish. Going to let it sit in the bottle a little bit to see what develops.
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Un St Joseph simple et fruité, sans grande complexité, mais agréable à boire. Malheureusement trop cher pour ce qu'on a dans le verre... A peine mieux que les "petites" syrah de Gaillard (dernière vigne) ou Villard (appel des sereines) qui sont presque 10$ de moins...
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Medium(+) ruby, fast-moving legs @13% abv. Aromas of black fruit, licorice, smoked meat and eucalyptus. Dry, medium acidity, medium structured tannin, medium alcohol and medium(+) body. Palate blackberry, bayleave, black pepper, amd savory dried meat notes. Great structure, balanced, lacks complexity. Good length with slightly bittersweet finish. Solid northern Rhone syrah, nothing to fault and nothing to excite.
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9/24/2023 - Mwc33 Likes this wine: 88 Points
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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11/5/2022 - tward Likes this wine: 90 Points
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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2/7/2022 - Heynetty wrote:
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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11/25/2021 - jdkrabbe wrote: 89 Points
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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8/20/2021 - EXPLORER 825 Likes this wine: 90 Points
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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11/12/2020 - AdamNC wrote: 87 Points
Fragrant, meaty.
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9/16/2020 - Mattypoto57 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Opened and drank right away. Nice purple in the glass. Medium bodied. Earthy tastes. A little peppery with flower taste. Light smoke finish. Long finish. Going to let it sit in the bottle a little bit to see what develops.
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3/27/2020 - Gemofwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pepperish, floral & brambles, earthy, ripe red fruits cherries & raspberries. Some barnyard notes too.
A really nice structure, bright with fine tannin.
Palate is light & easy, one can deceivingly sip the whole bottle without realising about the wine consumption . Enjoyable .
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2/22/2020 - Twinkles wrote: 88 Points
A bit young on day 1, opened-up with spices on day 2.
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9/18/2019 - azagoth Likes this wine: 87 Points
Un St Joseph simple et fruité, sans grande complexité, mais agréable à boire. Malheureusement trop cher pour ce qu'on a dans le verre... A peine mieux que les "petites" syrah de Gaillard (dernière vigne) ou Villard (appel des sereines) qui sont presque 10$ de moins...
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8/28/2019 - Barolo Raymond wrote: 89 Points
Medium(+) ruby, fast-moving legs @13% abv. Aromas of black fruit, licorice, smoked meat and eucalyptus. Dry, medium acidity, medium structured tannin, medium alcohol and medium(+) body. Palate blackberry, bayleave, black pepper, amd savory dried meat notes. Great structure, balanced, lacks complexity. Good length with slightly bittersweet finish.
Solid northern Rhone syrah, nothing to fault and nothing to excite.
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4/16/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône; 4/15/2019-4/16/2019 (Ampuis, Mauves and Tain-l'Hermitage): Walk around tasting talking with the producers, brief note. Red and black cherry with good ripeness but a little more barnyard than I'd prefer in a wine this young.
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