Houston Northern Rhone Blowout: Tasted next to the 1985, this wine showed more warm, vintage character. Some red pepper in the finish amid a background of red fruits with some baked character. The common line between the two is an incredible silky, fine boned tannic structure.
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This is not about the powerfulness that people often associated with Rhone wine, instead, this is about purity and energy, with the right amount of character (wildness?) on top of it. Loads of wild berries and dried flowers on the nose. With 12.5% alcohol, the palate started very fresh yet relatively light with cherry and a hint of olives. This gains weight and complexity with about 45min of air. Intense cherry with blackberry wrapped up with meaty, sheer, velvety tannin. Such a special Cornas!
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[Blind] Incredibly clean example. Highly floral and expressive and all about the fruit as opposed to earth. Bright red and blue berry fruit. Lifted and light. Slight olive, subtle tobacco detail. Beautiful.
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Beautiful floral nose with red fruit, meat, animal, olives and dried flowers. Palate is feminine and silky with pure syrah fruit despite being a bit light. Based on experience of the last two bottles from the same batch, the wine seems to be at peak. Drink up.
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Wine Dinner w/new friends in JAX (Rue St Mark): Totally my type of Rhone - all feral and funky and bloody and gamey and mineral. It's a wine that you love or hate I think, hard to be indifferent. Drinking really well. There's a certain elegance to the style I particularly enjoy.
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Green olives, red tart fruit and leather on the nose and palate. High acidity on the palate with red tart fruit. Feminine and elegant. Previous bottles have more complexity and weight. Still a decent Verset. 93-94
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Consistent with previous note but clearly needs time to open up. It blossomed after 60 mins of air. Green pepper, olives, meat, bacon, flowers and herbs. Elegant and weightless with excellent transperancy.
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Superb bottle. Green olives, menthol, dark fruit, meat and bacon. Palate was very elegant with depth and power while the beautiful acidity gave it so much freshness and vibes. Intriguingly complex and complete. A phenomenal Verset. 95+
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Everything I want in a Northern Rhône, a touch of white pepper, smoked meat, brambly fruit and fairy dust melded together in a seamless whole. While it still has a fair bit of tannin,it loses intensity with air so I’d start drinking them up if I had more.
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Starts out a touch rustic, but unfurls into a beautiful wine with a few minutes in the glass. Beautifully pure red fruit. Pairs rusticity with elegance. Not sure what more you could want out of cornas.
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Not undrinkable but has lost much of its fruit. Keeps getting better -- after 18 hours in decanter with spicy dark plum fruits and a little bit of a barbecue element. Cellared since original release. Lot 01.95 (i.e., this was the first of Verset's two bottlings).
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Went in knowing I could see a lot of bottle variation but ended up extremely happy. A rustic nose that showed some classic Barnyard qualities without being overly funky. Dirty, Meat, mushrooms ect . Very well integrated and with time to go. Wish I had more.
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A Week in Osoyoos; 7/5/2014-7/11/2014 (Osoyoos, BC): Drank alongside the '95 Clape. Shyer nose at first but once this opened up (about an hour after opening) it was outstanding. Beautifully complex nose, with all the same classic notes as the Clape (meat, black olives, leather) but with an extra gear of complexity. Beautifully rustic yet not a hair out of place really. Both this and the Clape have very nice acidity and somewhat firm tannins and both (especially the Verset) have the fruit and structure to go another 5-10 years. A brilliant wine.
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This is still a wild child but nevertheless a compelling and thrilling wine. It is meaty, carnal, feral and rustic, and had a marvellously latrinal attack. Eventually beefy, bovril notes begin to take over. This still has its best years ahead with a stern tannic spine. But it already is an enthralling, old school bottle of Cornas.
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Compared to the '90, this wine exhibits more of the wild, sauvage notes typically found in Cornas. Drank alongside '90 and '98 Verset, the former more classy and polished and the latter a tad too young. 95 is a lovely wine, agricultural and rustic, leathery with subtle notes of Bovril. Jury is out on the as to whether '95 has the potential to evolve into the almost Burgundian '90.
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I followed this over the entire evening and it took some time for this wine to open up. This is is certainly less polished than the 1990 and 1998, wild, funky, stinky, earthy as it is. A great, rugged wine that is still very young will live for years to come. A treat. At Bruno Loubet in London with Asher, Nicos, Ian and Maureen.
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Dark red color. Initially presented a badly corked aroma but that changed. A guest directed us to pour the wine into a carafe stuffed with cling film. After a swirl in the container and a 15 minute rest, the wine was poured back into a clean vessel. Voila ! A transformation, unlike anything I've experienced before with badly affected wines. The wine then opened slowly into a powerful, tannic and complex aroma. Meaty and game-y and brine-y, with signature olives and menthol. Wonderful, following treatment. Bottle #10 of twelve.
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Wow, the most impressive N Rhone I've ever had. Reminded me of the Allemand I enjoyed recently but with greater depth. Peppered meat, massive olive, stone, ash, violets, lavender, herbs, lead, and orange liquor. The lead was intense and very Loire Cab Franc-ish. Juicy meat on the palate as well as smoked plum and dark cherries. Tannins on the long finish were still rocking, still has many years left. I felt honored drinking this and hope another Verset crosses my path.
Murky, dark red. Intensely aromatic; a stupendously powerful complex of raw and smoked and roasted and dessicated and simmered meats, with Verset's signature mentholated garrigue, olives, brine. Heads bowed at the table for this one. Medium tannin, balanced acidity. Flavors are intense, and the finish long, sustained, powerful, We nursed this one for hours and still, the emptied glasses reeked beautifully into the next morning. This bottle exceeded any expectation I'd had for this Cornas vintage. Bottle #9 of twelve.
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My second and last bottle of two I bought for $30 a piece (!!!!!) back in 2009. Possibly the best Northen Rhone I have ever tasted and up there among the most memorable wines I have ever tasted. The essence of wild, rugged Cornas the way only Verset can make it. From the minute the wine was poured into the glass I couldn't keep my nose from it and it only seemed to get better and better with air. What a way to get transported back to the terraced hills of Cornas. Up there with the 1983 Margaux Ross brought. Wish I owned cases of this. Also, there is no hurry to drink up. With Salil, Zachary and Ross at La Silhouette.
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Drinks at La Silhouette (NYC): Spectacular. That unmistakeable Verset fragrance right away, so intensely aromatic with a kaleidoscopic array of meaty, bloody and leathery elements, pure red fruits and black olives and lower toned earthy and brothy elements. It's still very youthful, powerful and a little tannic on the back end, but there's amazing depth and finesse here and this is an utterly compelling and thrilling wine to drink. Verset can be so mindblowingly good when a pristine bottle is firing on all cylinders, and this is one of those moments - thanks Peter.
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Interesting in a way that veers between "a horse took a dump in my glass" to "I am really drinking terroir" to "there is a bunch of sulphuric acid in my glass". Really quite a wide range of tastes - at first his is brutally horsey and earthy then the meaty aromas really kick in. A brilliant iodine laden palate with firm, metallic tannins before the crisp acidic finish. Very good but this is not for the newbies.
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Verset Dinner: I didn't love this wine as much as the other tasters loved it, but I was almost alone in that feeling. I found a little alcohol on the nose, but this is picking nits. This is bigger and richer than many, with lots of iodine and blood on the nose, entirely young and still tight as a drum. The palate is very big, almost confusingly so, and I didn't find the harmony and grace that I typically find with Verset, but what's there is delicious. Loads of structure still, I would wait on this for another 10 years - literally.
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Medium dark red. Wickedly good nose, a classic Verset Cornas of wood fire, smoked pork, animale, garrigue, super-ripe fruit, and the usual small touch of VA. Medium high tannin, medium acids, but the generous and big flavors keep the balance going. Powerful finish, bristles with energy; there's plenty of life left, but drinking very well already. This will never be called elegant. Bottle #7 of twelve.
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Classic 1995, still pretty young, but did come together with air. Complex structure, pretty angular. Would tend to hold yet. 95s could be terrific in the long haul; I'd take the risk - 10 more years?
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The rugged, rustic expression of Syrah with scents of black olives, smoke, grilled meat and dried black fruit on the nose. More masculine, upright wine with mushroom and animal touches. This is a lovely wine and a great match for the lamb in rosemary and garlic sauce. Unique wine.
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Starts out with a faintly musty scent that had me worried about cork taint, but that cleared with some air. Really outstanding stuff, combining earth, pork, olive, herbal and saline flavours seamlessly on a frame that's very elegant and silken-textured with the tannins almost completely resolved.
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Syrah/Shiraz tasting @ my place (Netherlands): Wild barnyard animal-like nose with hints of grilled meat, freshly shot game, clove, juniper, matchstick, tomatoleaf, bayleaf and charcoal. Very elegant and absolutely old-school Syrah. Very earthy, long and balanced. The palate is supported by the everpresent acidity. The finish shows green olive, blood and schoolpaint. Very traditional-styled and I like that. 17.5/20
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Gorgeous aromatics that keep developing and expanding over the evening, starts out as an essence of olives, meat and leather and keeps picking up more smoky, earthy and herbal nuances with air. Incredibly polished, silky and finessed in the mouth with tannins mostly resolved and a long, meaty finish. Fantastic.
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Verset Vertical, Avec Others: A sweeter scent than almost any of the other wines today, almost like graham crackers in its combo of baking spice and sweet crust. More noticeably tannic than the other vintages, mostly because it's less sappy. The sweet scents don't translate into much sweetness of the underlying material; this is pretty dry stuff.
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Some funk and animal, with a band-aid quality on the nose. On the palate, this was initially very tannic, with a metallic edge -- comes across as shrill. Next day both the band-aid and the metallic characteristics become more pronounced. Brett/Dekkera spoilage.
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10/22/2023 - jviz wrote: 93 Points
Houston Northern Rhone Blowout: Tasted next to the 1985, this wine showed more warm, vintage character. Some red pepper in the finish amid a background of red fruits with some baked character. The common line between the two is an incredible silky, fine boned tannic structure.
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6/18/2023 - yuti1225 Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is not about the powerfulness that people often associated with Rhone wine, instead, this is about purity and energy, with the right amount of character (wildness?) on top of it. Loads of wild berries and dried flowers on the nose. With 12.5% alcohol, the palate started very fresh yet relatively light with cherry and a hint of olives. This gains weight and complexity with about 45min of air. Intense cherry with blackberry wrapped up with meaty, sheer, velvety tannin. Such a special Cornas!
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5/19/2023 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
[Blind] Incredibly clean example. Highly floral and expressive and all about the fruit as opposed to earth. Bright red and blue berry fruit. Lifted and light. Slight olive, subtle tobacco detail. Beautiful.
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8/9/2022 - Ms. Bubblehead Likes this wine: 92 Points
Elegant expression of syrah that is at peak and starting to gradually fade
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8/9/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful floral nose with red fruit, meat, animal, olives and dried flowers. Palate is feminine and silky with pure syrah fruit despite being a bit light. Based on experience of the last two bottles from the same batch, the wine seems to be at peak. Drink up.
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1/6/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Wine Dinner w/new friends in JAX (Rue St Mark): Totally my type of Rhone - all feral and funky and bloody and gamey and mineral. It's a wine that you love or hate I think, hard to be indifferent. Drinking really well. There's a certain elegance to the style I particularly enjoy.
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5/1/2021 - Sennma wrote: 94 Points
Slightly wild and feral in a good way, wonderfully pure fruit. Excellent expression of Cornas...shame these are so hard to get anymore.
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10/19/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Green olives, red tart fruit and leather on the nose and palate. High acidity on the palate with red tart fruit. Feminine and elegant. Previous bottles have more complexity and weight. Still a decent Verset. 93-94
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3/14/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Consistent with previous note but clearly needs time to open up. It blossomed after 60 mins of air. Green pepper, olives, meat, bacon, flowers and herbs. Elegant and weightless with excellent transperancy.
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11/29/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
Superb bottle. Green olives, menthol, dark fruit, meat and bacon. Palate was very elegant with depth and power while the beautiful acidity gave it so much freshness and vibes. Intriguingly complex and complete. A phenomenal Verset. 95+
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10/5/2019 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 95 Points
Everything I want in a Northern Rhône, a touch of white pepper, smoked meat, brambly fruit and fairy dust melded together in a seamless whole. While it still has a fair bit of tannin,it loses intensity with air so I’d start drinking them up if I had more.
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9/12/2019 - bongos wrote: 97 Points
Starts out a touch rustic, but unfurls into a beautiful wine with a few minutes in the glass. Beautifully pure red fruit. Pairs rusticity with elegance. Not sure what more you could want out of cornas.
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6/5/2019 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
Corked. Super green and funky nose with a very light and lean palate.
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2/2/2019 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
La Tablee: Celebratory Dinner (BYO) (26 Bridge Street, Brooklyn): This was really special. Very classy and earthy and darker fruits and well structured. I am a huge fan.
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12/31/2018 - cfk49 wrote: 88 Points
Not undrinkable but has lost much of its fruit. Keeps getting better -- after 18 hours in decanter with spicy dark plum fruits and a little bit of a barbecue element. Cellared since original release. Lot 01.95 (i.e., this was the first of Verset's two bottlings).
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1/27/2017 - fatboi Likes this wine: 95 Points
Went in knowing I could see a lot of bottle variation but ended up extremely happy. A rustic nose that showed some classic Barnyard qualities without being overly funky. Dirty, Meat, mushrooms ect . Very well integrated and with time to go. Wish I had more.
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7/8/2014 - godx wrote: 95 Points
A Week in Osoyoos; 7/5/2014-7/11/2014 (Osoyoos, BC): Drank alongside the '95 Clape. Shyer nose at first but once this opened up (about an hour after opening) it was outstanding. Beautifully complex nose, with all the same classic notes as the Clape (meat, black olives, leather) but with an extra gear of complexity. Beautifully rustic yet not a hair out of place really. Both this and the Clape have very nice acidity and somewhat firm tannins and both (especially the Verset) have the fruit and structure to go another 5-10 years. A brilliant wine.
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1/12/2014 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 95 Points
This is still a wild child but nevertheless a compelling and thrilling wine. It is meaty, carnal, feral and rustic, and had a marvellously latrinal attack. Eventually beefy, bovril notes begin to take over. This still has its best years ahead with a stern tannic spine. But it already is an enthralling, old school bottle of Cornas.
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1/12/2014 - MEKWINE wrote: 93 Points
Compared to the '90, this wine exhibits more of the wild, sauvage notes typically found in Cornas. Drank alongside '90 and '98 Verset, the former more classy and polished and the latter a tad too young. 95 is a lovely wine, agricultural and rustic, leathery with subtle notes of Bovril. Jury is out on the as to whether '95 has the potential to evolve into the almost Burgundian '90.
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1/10/2014 - pbaek wrote:
I followed this over the entire evening and it took some time for this wine to open up. This is is certainly less polished than the 1990 and 1998, wild, funky, stinky, earthy as it is. A great, rugged wine that is still very young will live for years to come. A treat. At Bruno Loubet in London with Asher, Nicos, Ian and Maureen.
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12/30/2013 - Hodby wrote: 91 Points
Dark red color. Initially presented a badly corked aroma but that changed. A guest directed us to pour the wine into a carafe stuffed with cling film. After a swirl in the container and a 15 minute rest, the wine was poured back into a clean vessel. Voila ! A transformation, unlike anything I've experienced before with badly affected wines. The wine then opened slowly into a powerful, tannic and complex aroma. Meaty and game-y and brine-y, with signature olives and menthol. Wonderful, following treatment. Bottle #10 of twelve.
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11/10/2013 - Vinsant wrote:
Wow, the most impressive N Rhone I've ever had. Reminded me of the Allemand I enjoyed recently but with greater depth. Peppered meat, massive olive, stone, ash, violets, lavender, herbs, lead, and orange liquor. The lead was intense and very Loire Cab Franc-ish. Juicy meat on the palate as well as smoked plum and dark cherries. Tannins on the long finish were still rocking, still has many years left. I felt honored drinking this and hope another Verset crosses my path.
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8/26/2013 - Hodby wrote: 95 Points
Murky, dark red. Intensely aromatic; a stupendously powerful complex of raw and smoked and roasted and dessicated and simmered meats, with Verset's signature mentholated garrigue, olives, brine. Heads bowed at the table for this one. Medium tannin, balanced acidity. Flavors are intense, and the finish long, sustained, powerful, We nursed this one for hours and still, the emptied glasses reeked beautifully into the next morning. This bottle exceeded any expectation I'd had for this Cornas vintage. Bottle #9 of twelve.
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4/29/2013 - pbaek wrote:
My second and last bottle of two I bought for $30 a piece (!!!!!) back in 2009. Possibly the best Northen Rhone I have ever tasted and up there among the most memorable wines I have ever tasted. The essence of wild, rugged Cornas the way only Verset can make it. From the minute the wine was poured into the glass I couldn't keep my nose from it and it only seemed to get better and better with air. What a way to get transported back to the terraced hills of Cornas. Up there with the 1983 Margaux Ross brought. Wish I owned cases of this. Also, there is no hurry to drink up. With Salil, Zachary and Ross at La Silhouette.
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4/29/2013 - salil wrote: 97 Points
Drinks at La Silhouette (NYC): Spectacular. That unmistakeable Verset fragrance right away, so intensely aromatic with a kaleidoscopic array of meaty, bloody and leathery elements, pure red fruits and black olives and lower toned earthy and brothy elements. It's still very youthful, powerful and a little tannic on the back end, but there's amazing depth and finesse here and this is an utterly compelling and thrilling wine to drink. Verset can be so mindblowingly good when a pristine bottle is firing on all cylinders, and this is one of those moments - thanks Peter.
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4/3/2013 - nyscottmcd Likes this wine: 94 Points
A bit tight but excellent. Black rasberries in nose, and smoked meat. Game. Would benefit from more age.
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12/6/2011 - pjaines wrote:
Interesting in a way that veers between "a horse took a dump in my glass" to "I am really drinking terroir" to "there is a bunch of sulphuric acid in my glass". Really quite a wide range of tastes - at first his is brutally horsey and earthy then the meaty aromas really kick in. A brilliant iodine laden palate with firm, metallic tannins before the crisp acidic finish. Very good but this is not for the newbies.
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11/3/2011 - brooklynguy wrote:
Verset Dinner: I didn't love this wine as much as the other tasters loved it, but I was almost alone in that feeling. I found a little alcohol on the nose, but this is picking nits. This is bigger and richer than many, with lots of iodine and blood on the nose, entirely young and still tight as a drum. The palate is very big, almost confusingly so, and I didn't find the harmony and grace that I typically find with Verset, but what's there is delicious. Loads of structure still, I would wait on this for another 10 years - literally.
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11/2/2010 - Hodby wrote: 93 Points
Medium dark red. Wickedly good nose, a classic Verset Cornas of wood fire, smoked pork, animale, garrigue, super-ripe fruit, and the usual small touch of VA. Medium high tannin, medium acids, but the generous and big flavors keep the balance going. Powerful finish, bristles with energy; there's plenty of life left, but drinking very well already. This will never be called elegant. Bottle #7 of twelve.
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10/23/2010 - Brad L wrote:
Classic 1995, still pretty young, but did come together with air. Complex structure, pretty angular. Would tend to hold yet. 95s could be terrific in the long haul; I'd take the risk - 10 more years?
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10/8/2010 - pbaek wrote:
The rugged, rustic expression of Syrah with scents of black olives, smoke, grilled meat and dried black fruit on the nose. More masculine, upright wine with mushroom and animal touches. This is a lovely wine and a great match for the lamb in rosemary and garlic sauce. Unique wine.
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5/12/2010 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Starts out with a faintly musty scent that had me worried about cork taint, but that cleared with some air. Really outstanding stuff, combining earth, pork, olive, herbal and saline flavours seamlessly on a frame that's very elegant and silken-textured with the tannins almost completely resolved.
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11/14/2009 - jkoenen wrote: 90 Points
Syrah/Shiraz tasting @ my place (Netherlands): Wild barnyard animal-like nose with hints of grilled meat, freshly shot game, clove, juniper, matchstick, tomatoleaf, bayleaf and charcoal. Very elegant and absolutely old-school Syrah. Very earthy, long and balanced. The palate is supported by the everpresent acidity. The finish shows green olive, blood and schoolpaint. Very traditional-styled and I like that. 17.5/20
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11/12/2009 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Gorgeous aromatics that keep developing and expanding over the evening, starts out as an essence of olives, meat and leather and keeps picking up more smoky, earthy and herbal nuances with air. Incredibly polished, silky and finessed in the mouth with tannins mostly resolved and a long, meaty finish. Fantastic.
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5/8/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 88 Points
Verset Vertical, Avec Others: A sweeter scent than almost any of the other wines today, almost like graham crackers in its combo of baking spice and sweet crust. More noticeably tannic than the other vintages, mostly because it's less sappy. The sweet scents don't translate into much sweetness of the underlying material; this is pretty dry stuff.
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5/7/2009 - henrychinaski wrote: 92 Points
Very nice aromatics with Lots of pepper. Slightly weaker mid-palatte. Very juicy finish.
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2/18/2008 - xwine wrote: flawed
Consistent with the last bottle. Too bad.
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9/22/2007 - Pete Canary wrote: 81 Points
past it's best - extremely vegetal and woody nose, very oaky on the palate, limited fruit, cloying
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5/20/2007 - xwine wrote: flawed
Some funk and animal, with a band-aid quality on the nose. On the palate, this was initially very tannic, with a metallic edge -- comes across as shrill. Next day both the band-aid and the metallic characteristics become more pronounced. Brett/Dekkera spoilage.
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10/10/2006 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
St John Offline (St John, London): Raw, feral, very wild and traditional, solid. Not Rated.
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10/6/2006 - JeffGMorris wrote: 83 Points
Suckling Pin Dinner at St. John (London, UK): Medium ruby in color. All barnyard and acid to me. Really not a style I enjoy. 50+10+11+6+6 = 83
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8/11/2005 - steffenpelz wrote: 92 Points
London Offline with Nicos, Charles, and a bunch of North-Americans (St. John's Restaurant, London, United Kingdom): Dark garnet red in the glass. Minor sediment. Wonderful nose of dark fruit and rustic aromas. Licorice, bacon, cherries, mesquite charcoal. Round wine with wonderful structure and a long finish. The wine over the 5 hours we were at the restaurant did not fall apart. On the contrary, I thought it kept getting better. My WOTN.
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