Starts off a tad reserved with leather, violets and black pepper. Once it opens everything is amped up. The palate is deep, bloody and showing gobs of complex flavors. So beautifully balanced and composed. There is an elegant density to the mature flavors. Fantastic!
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Gorgeous nose and one that takes you straight to Northern Rhone. Nose is darker red fruits, olive tapenade, touch of florals and pepper. On the palate this shows a bit more youthfully with plenty of weight, length and fruit to balance the fine and polished tannins. There’s great acidity on the backend keeping the profile lively and vibrant. The finish is long and silky. In a great place now but has the stuffing to continue aging gracefully for many more years.
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Nez magnifique, très ouvert sur le bacon, la viande, l’eucalyptus, le poivre noir et les épices douces L’attaque en bouche est très fruitée, voir un peu surette, c’est viandeux et fumé et même une mini touche de tannins. L’ensemble est dense complexe et très animal Superbe finale avec un rappel des arômes perçus avant Superbe vin !
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Bu juste après le Chave et encore à l'aveugle, il était facile d'aller vers Côte-Rotie avec ce côté lardé, sueur d'animal (bretts?), de la tapenade d'olives noires encore bien présente. C'est un vin qui a bien tenu et clairement pour les amateurs de syrah de ce style très "animal", certains pourront être rebutés je crois par le profil aromatique. 94
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Beautiful nose of soaring aromatics inclusive of raspberry, black pepper, and violet. On the palate a melange of red and black fruit, well spiced, shows good concentration but no sense of weight. Moderate length to the finish of dark fruit. Very good and close to peak but zero rush.
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Obvious age on the nose with aged meat (game), smoky aromas, sour cherries, iron, tobacco. Not as aged on the palate - very much alive still. I think, it's at its peak. Drink.
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Extreme bouquet w. canned corn and tuna. Bloody and smoky meats, sweet fleshy and hints of tobacco. Juicy, fleshy, bloody palate. Still plenty of life, great balance and length. At its peak now.
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This gem was worth waiting for. Clearly in the zone, the wine screamed with its smoky nose filled with bouquet garni, sage, peppery red fruits, and raspberries, the wine is full-bodied, intense, long, zesty, and vibrant. There is length, purity, power, and character that does not want to stop. No decanting needed, just pop and pour, drink from 2022-2035.
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Close to the best Syrah I have ever tasted, tertiary taste but still good fruit on blackberries with very present notes of bacon. Very long. Don't see a reason to way much longer it is great here
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Huge nose with notes of dried raw meat, black pepper, bacon fat, black olives rust and iron. In contrast to the powerful nose the taste is lean, stringent and with a vibrant acidity wich brings a cool freshness to the evolved nose. The tannins are smooth as silk but the mineral backbone is still very much in focus… Wow!…
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Big, deep, rich and meaty with great acidity. Youthful but drinking really well with an hour or two of air. Seems to be right at the beginning of its peak maturity window. Excellent wine.
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Deep and complex nose of dark fruit, olives, smoke, and meat, with more of a red fruit character coming out with air. Great acidity and structure with more red fruit leaning flavors, cedar, and savory notes on the palate. Very long finish. Amazing wine, the nose is just absolutely gorgeous. Feels like it’s early in its maturity. 96+
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Benchmark. Consistent with past notes. Particularly olive this showing. Smoky, wild, but overwhelmingly floral. Clean and robust red and black fruit behind the massive aromatic projection. Outstanding. The floral purity coupled with the scorched earth harmoniously hitting these two notes is among my favourite things in wine. 94 - 95.
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This needed many hours of air to reach peak. Wild notes of feral things and sweet dark earth finally settled down in the glass as the wine continued to unfurl all evening. Beautiful flavors of violet spice and charcoal minerals began to emerge and the texture of the wine is like velvety silk. The finish is layered and flowing with incredibly supple tannins and complex notes of minerals, charred embers and floral spice. Wow!
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Decanted for just over 2 hours. Inky opaque purple. Nose of char, blackberry, pepper, meaty tones, lavender. Layers of poised, silky blackberry and plum fruit on the palate cut with pepper, mocha, and smoky beef blood. Nicely acidic with smoothed tannin. Longer finish of pure dark plum and pepper. Classic wine still fresh and youthful.
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This was popped and poured and consumed quickly and clearly would've benefited from a proper decant, but regardless was great as always. Classic smoke and dark fruit. Great palate that is plush and smooth without any heaviness.
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Perfect magnum of this double-decanted 3+ hours. Intense mineral and lavendar nose which followed through on the palate. The texture here is the thing with a beautiful layered silky mouthfeel and expressive flavors of charcoal, roasted game, black fruits and floral spice. The finish is just gorgeous with complex notes of minerals and campfire embers. A stunning Cote Rotie drunk at its apogee.
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Friday evening in Singapore at Odette. Pairing it with several courses, white fish, pigeon and vegetable based ones. Deep ruby Color. Beautiful nose full of flowers and dark cherry and raspberries, as well as smoke and earthiness. Med acidity, full body, high alcohol, Med tannins, Med + flavor intesity, Long finish. Beautiful fruit, green freshness, pepper, smoke, earth, mushrooms, a wet forest floor that keeps lingering easily for 30 seconds. A true Burgundian silkyness to the tannins and velvety structure, truly beautiful. This is Excellent, it is my first to taste 20y+ cote rotie and I know why I like it, just like the romans 2000 years ago ;)
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Such an expressive Cote Rotie at this point with incredible flavors of black fruits, charcoal embers and roasted meats. Full and silky with so much perfumed complexity showing additional notes of coal dust, floral spice, graphite minerals and smoked earth. Peaking now. If there is a wine out there that is currently more expressive of this great terroir, I need to taste it to believe it. Wow!
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2nd release. Very elegant, majestic wine - still on the young side. Very cool and vertical presence. Minerals are dominating a long with olives, hanged meat, black berries; gains weight in the glass. #Knudhule#PB
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Released from winery recently (last year, I believe) and was in great condition. Needed an hour or so in the decanter to open up and settle down. The nose is really expressive with meat, olive and berry. Great wine.
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I am trying to get to know this producer and was very excited to have this bottle after reading the other notes. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the best experience. Day one was very meaty, earth with some nice spice and charcuterie on the nose. After a couple hours some bright red fruit came through but overall this seemed a bit dense and foursquare. On day two, it was really just meat, blood and earth. Maybe not the best example.
Gorgeous nose with cured meat, dried flowers, olives and stems. Ultra smooth and weightless on the palate with latent transperancy in a femine way. The last sip was the best. The most impressive and complete Jamet I have ever bad.
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The nose on this is just booming: massive projection of roses, cured meat, smoke, acrylic, clay, and vibrant red berry fruit projects from the glass. A wafting and intricate bouquet. Overall clean and pure but with the trace highlights of rusticity and faint sauvage. Black cherry, menthol, pastels. The palate has plenty of fruit power but is nicely resolved and has a developed silky texture. Clay mineral and bright cherry. 94-95 Very impressive, detailed and intricate.
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Late release. Medicine cabinet galore here, black olives, cool, calm structure, it's only a Northern Song but oh, what a song; I am sold, once again. #Jordnær
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Beguiling, soaring aromatics include bacon fat, blackberry, violet, and earth. Crescendo concentration that gains power on the midpalate before an explosive finish that lingers for minutes. Despite the power, there's hardly any weight, and this is made all the more weightless by moderate-high but soft acidity. I often find Côte-Rôtie offers killer aromatics but a less complete palate, I suspect due to the Viognier, but in 1999 this delivers in both. Excellent today but not yet at its peak.
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Bought on release for $80. Nose very much of roasted meat with some cassis, cherries and leather. Still has fruit on the palate with cleansing acidity. Firm, long but civilized finish. Would seem to have years left but great to drink now. Becomes more integrated after a hour or so airing. Next day - most of meat gone but more fruity. Palate more integrated with beautiful long finish.
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A l’aveugle chez C. Un nez de côte rôtie flamboyante, assez pur, vieux cassis, lardé, profond, violette, épicé, pas tout jeune mais très engageant! La bouche est hélas un peu dure, La finale manque de finesse, sans doute un gros millesime qui doit encore se polir (trop boisé, trop extrait, trop de raffles?) le vin enchante le palais par son aromatique plus que son tactile musclé; sur le bourguignon lardé, il déployait des arômes plus frais de pêche! Une côte-rôtie ambitieuse pour sûr, un grand nom (grandes places, landonne…?) Une fois découvert, je me pose toujours la même question: les vieux Jamet d’avant 2000 etaient-ils plus boisés qu’aujourd’hui?
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This was a funny one - table next to us at restaurant (who had gone through quite a bit of stuff) had left around half a bottle of this. Seeing that I asked the sommelier what was wrong with it and the answer was they didn't like it. Well I didn't refuse a pour to try as I never had this vintage of Jamet. I actually really liked it. Maybe not quite as exciting as a terrific bottle of 97 I had a few weeks ago but in the same vein. Nice mature Cote Rotie with all the goodies of roasted meat, pepper. Not a fruity wine but rather a savoury one as those Jamet wines are when mature. Well I went for a second pour of this, shame to have this go to waste. I guess the other group simply doesn't like aged Northern Rhone and I should maybe be travelling in their slip stream more often ;-)
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after couple hr double decant then at restaurant this opened slowily as it warmed. Evolving from red fruited with shallow nose into a medium deep wine meaty and savory notes. A long finish with still some tannins that should keep this baby improving for years to come. Excellent balance of fruit/acid/tannins at this stage. I'll hold for a few more before trying again.
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Really good. Smoky, meaty, savoury & delicious. Love the weight & the shape. Bloomed initially with some air & maybe tailed off slightly at the end. This bottle looked at the peak of its development for me.
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Leoville and Langoa with Damien Barton Sartorius: So easy and accessible, the 99 Jamet Cote Rotie shows a super classic nose of roasted meat, cherry, earth, and leather. Potent, but in no way heavy - actually quite fresh, which for me marks out the Northern Rhones really worth drinking. Wonderful presence on the palate. terrific stuff.
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(Blind tasting) Full, smoky and rich nose. Very good depth. Blackberry and violets in lovely comination. Peppery and meaty in a perfectly developed way. Nice hints of coffee oak only adds complexity. Very seductive. Fullish but elegant palate. Still tannic. Smoky, meaty with charcuterie. Tobacco and flower freshness intermingles. Oak and violet fruit in dense, tight and very expressive style. Very, very good. Long finish.
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Late release. Served vis-avis the Levet 1998. Still very roung, smooth, fruit, black olives here, dark fruit chocolate, very complex with many levels. Gets better in the glass. Can be drunk now, but sill very early days IMHO. #CP#Liverpool-Barcelona
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A wow bottle. On the nose it’s this shifting melange of rare meat and violets, and it benefits from an hour or so in the decanter as the aromas become more expressive. On the palate too there’s an interplay between sweet and savory. The fruit character is black edging towards red if that makes sense. Very much shows the yin/yang of great Jamet. Sauvage and elegant at the same time. There’s enough tannin left on the finish to forecast plenty of time left for further development or staying power but to me this wine is at an absolute peak.
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HDH Dec auction trip/dinners at SKY and RPM Italian; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018: So this was an adventure - at dinner, a touch foursquare and blocky with the fruit still very rich and primary, and giving the impression it needs a lot more time despite plenty of developing meaty and smoky scents. Leftovers the next day (at lunch) transform into something much more polished and fragrant, and it's much more enjoyable then showing far more aromatic complexity, more freshness and brightness, and great overall balance.
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Wines Tasted at HDH Auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Small glass, brief note. So much roasted meat and ripe, ultra dense black berry and plum. So powerful and precise, a wonderfully clean Jamet, consistent with other bottles of this wine. Great now, still with possible upside.
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HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): This wasn't showing as well as the 1998 today. It has similar smoky and briny tones as well, but the fruit here shows a lot more red and primary. The acidity too, is a bit more raw than the 1998. Lots of structure, this is a pretty big wine that isn't anywhere close to resolution. In time, this may be the better wine than the 1998, but I think the 1998 is more enjoyable today.
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This Côte Rôtie was elegant and had all the right flavours, griotte cherry, violet, grilled meat and olive, together with a silky texture, bright moreish acidity and decent firmness towards the finish and length. However, unlike the surrounding vintages, it was not really singing and seemed a bit simplistic. This may just be a matter of insufficient time. I make a mental note to leave the remaining two bottles aside for a few years. Nevertheless very good.
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Tasted after Chapoutier’s 2012 La Mordorée. Beautiful, almost perfumed nose - smoked meat, spices, crushed stones, leather, dark fruit, hints of tobacco and earth. On the palate totally harmonious - vibrant, fresh with some tannic structure, pure fruit, lots of intensity and elegance and very fine length. Fantastic! Drink or keep. 95-97
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Beautiful bouquet, violet flowers, acrylics and ceramics, ink, blueberry, charcoal and pit smoke. Peppercorn. Awesome. This is like a bouquet of lilies. Palate is fresh, big and intense but texturally light. Gaining weight, brambly blackberry. As good as this was tonight, I think best results are years ahead. From the Nov 2016 Acker sale, excellent looking bottle.
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A bit subdued at first, but it blossomed with air. Very precise and crystalline, though hints of white pepper and smoked meat add a savage undertone. While very good now, it isn't as thrilling on a primal level as the 1998 is and I think it will show better with more time in the cellar, or at the minimum some time in a decanter.
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99 Jamet is an exercise in youth and density. There’s a lot of dark fruit and ripe vibrancy going on from the vintage. The core is deep and plentiful. Still not showing much secondary in comparison to the 97/98 before it. This one is gonna be a bottle that you can age for quite awhile. Drink those 98s while you wait for the 99 to come around!
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Jamet Côte-Rôtie vertical.This showed first a little more advanced but funnily enough calmed down a little over the course of the evening. Some notes of mushroom, earth, damp cellar, but this cleared up a little during the tasting. Also the typical notes of dark berries, meaty notes and flowers appeared. Pretty full-bodied, with medium+ acidity and medium tannin that has melted away nicely. Good length. A very good CR but from my perspective was outshone by some of the other vintages on this occasion.
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Awesome wine. Still quite young but with a 2-hr decant showing silky black fruits with tons of graphite/charcoal minerals. A big wine for sure but so smooth with great complexity on the finish. Just stunning juice! 96+
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Needed about 2 hours to shine, initially really shy and short on the palate. It then becomes really expressive with loads of black pepper and smoked meat on the nose and the palate is deep and long with dark earthy fruit. Still a brawny tannic wine. Palate still showing a touch shy even a couple hours in as the finish is clipped so i'd hold the bottles you have, but it's ready for the long haul.
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litt lysere rød, dyp kjerne. Rødbær, pepper, noe mere spicy. Intens nese. Presis rødbærspreget munn med kirsebær og jordbær. Noe spice og tobakk. Litt sopp. Tippet Jamet blindt. . Balansert, frisk og lang. Eikepreget lang avslutning. Sexy. Jeg visste på forhånd dette var Nord Rhône. Kunne lett blitt tatt for en toppklasse Burgund. 94
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Medium pluss intens nese. Litt tilbakeholden. Rått kjøtt, rypeblod. Polert treverk. Hakket mer utviklet enn 06 og 02, men langt fra moden. Stram i munn, medium tannin, men en frisk, medium pluss intens syre. Krydret rødfrukt. Balansert smakskurve, medium pluss lang utgang. Beskjeden nese og tøff i munn, trenger mer tid. Gi minst fem år til. Heftig vin ellers, kompakt og konsentrert med stort potensiale.
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5 hour decant. characteristics of cote rotie, but not as expressive as i like and poor QPR. Disappointed. All liked a Saxum at half the price much better.
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Rare Northern Rhone Dinner (Tocqueville): Highly expressive nose that has black pepper, smouldering barbecue pit, green stemmy florals, coffee grounds, and new leather. Completely in line with past experiences and everything one could hope for out of this. Incredibly aromatic.
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Just an incredibly exotic and erotic nose: sassafras, ginger root, black pepper, wet hay, sex sweat, violets; the intense floral palate penetration weakens the knees. Cigar smoke and complex French perfume finish. Wow!
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2 hour decant. Nose was spectacular - incredibly complex and deep. Tar, smoke, roses, meat, black fruits - textbook and so much more. Palate was a bit closed, at least compared to the nose. Very tight knit, fine tannins. Fruit was pure and very dark. Only a hint of secondary notes. Mid-palate could have used a bit more weight. This has many good years ahead of it.
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Domaine Jamet Côte-Rôtie Dinner (Formento's - Chicago IL): Opened and decanted 30 minutes before serving, I should have done that hours earlier. Black berry and plum aromas with black cherry, black pepper, licorice, and smoked sausage. Aromas were sensational from the start, as were upfront flavors, but tannins were as prominent as flavors from middle forward for at least an hour. Some thought it clipped, but they were wrong as the tannins softened in glass, albeit at least one hour after initially poured. I plan on cellaring my remaining bottles longer.
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Another fantastic Jamet. Wonderful nose right off the initial pour: big perfume upfront with savory aging meats, jerky, and black pepper following up. Still has heaps of black currant and blackberry fruit. A very big wine to be sure, but already so expressive and aromatically elegant. Immensely flavorful on the palate but never overbearing. Still juicy but showing all the roasted complexity of a good Northern Rhone. Great drinking tonight but definitely want to hold on to these for years to come.
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Wow, this has reached a fabulous place for drinking now as the fruit is still prominent but tertiary flavors are developing that make the finish oh so complex. There are classic flavors of smoked meats, black pepper, baconfat and violets that lead to a fantastic finish with great floral lift and mineral crunch. As always with Jamet, the Burgundy of Cote Rotie and this is the best bottle of Jamet I've ever tasted. Plenty of life left. Wow!
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Bam. Exceptional. Very sexy and rich. Classic bacon and feral meatiness. Olives. Spice. Miles of life ahead of it. Beautifully balanced too. A perfect Côte Rotie.
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Big, seductive, and feral nose that's exemplar Côte-Rôtie, with notes of black olive, blackberry, bacon fat, and smoke. Black fruit and roast meat in the mouth, with great acidity and low alcohol. For all the hedonism, this is quite pure and clean. There's still some grippy tannins, and secondary notes have yet to emerge. If lucky this will evolve positively for another 10 years.
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Wines at Mike's: A nose suggesting an Old World, in fact Northern Rhone, Syrah: spices, black pepper, sweaty leather horse saddle and fried bacon fat notes, with more funky, almost feral elements. In the mouth, you feel the power, the Jamet is still pretty primary. Very clean and pure, with quite a volume of unresolved fine grained tannin. There is plenty of bright, dark berry fruit but also attractive umami, savoury elements, particularly on the long, dry finish. Hold for 5+ years. This Jamet looks excellent!
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#DCInvasion (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Compared to the 2000, which I thought was much more approachable, this wine showed much more charcuterie and bacon on the nose and palate. There's a slight feral quality to it as well, as well as exuberant black fruit that needs more time to come out and play. Despite the density and richness, there's no sense at all that this wine is heavy, and that's probably thanks to an undercurrent of acidity. I would strongly suggest negating the rule of 15 here and letting these sleep for a few more years.
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La Las Dinner: A great bottle of wine, but seemed a bit closed down right now. I would hold onto this for a few more years before opening again. I felt like it's probably got at least 20+ years of life in it.
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The nose was very black fruit with cold smoke... taste was quite cold with some drying tannins, black cherries ... good but not great... was killed by the Fonsalette 1989 Cuvée Syrah!!
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Galoots Lunch (Double Zero Napoletano- Sandy Springs): Very excited when I saw this bottle, great vintage but the wine was well into its secondary phase, was expecting more richness and nobility, aged showing lots of olive and brine, ripe berry, plum skin, lots of leather, black pepper, fresher but lacked the balance; tasty just lacked wow factor.
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Very dark, very young very tight - decanting is a must - 6 hours recommended. Comes across as a very cool style côte-rôtie with loads of mineralsk, black pepper, olies and game, but hands off, please, as this is far from maturity. Lovely, and very serious, nevertheless. (Birthday at Formel B)
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Decanted for an hour. Beautiful wine – just entering its prime drinking period (to my taste), excellent depth, starting off with the typical roasted meat flavours, but opening up gradually to reveal lovely pure fruit and floral notes. Great length. Clearly has another 5-10 years at least but no need to wait. ****1/2
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Northern Rhone WIMPS (La Trompette, Chiswick): Deep ruby. Blackcurrant fruit, florals, bacon quite prominent, touch of vanilla too. Medium/full bodied, polished, modern dark fruit, still quite firmly tannic but plenty of depth and matiere, bacon notes again. Long, excellent, plenty of scope for improvement. ****
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This was a Kacher bottle without the UK label. Very good out of the bottle, with a lot of barnyard and leather along with tart cherry fruit. Solid wine, and I preferred it slightly over the 99 St Cosme, although it is a touch short and dry on the finish. A-
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Lovely wine. Seems to be just entering its prime zone, the sides of the palate feeling a bit softer than last time. The nose and palate deliver an array of Cote Rotie loveliness, from lavender to meats to dried herbs, like seasoning atop a soft bed of blue and black currant fruit. Classic wine that is drinking very well now. Thanks, Mike. Fairway Cafe.
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I have always loved this wine and this was another great bottle. Tremendously complex aromatics of bloody meat, olive, pepper and earth. The palate is seamless - so smooth. This carries the ripeness of the '99 vintage so well - it's low acid but still in balance and doesn't come close to being overripe. A great Jamet.
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Had the 1999 Jamet, Burgeau, Clusel Roch, Rostaing and Gallet together. 5 fairly traditional producers. All decanted 4 hours. Jamet was clearly best of the bunch. The most comlex and deep nose of bacon fat, wet fur, blood and black currants. Sweet and gorgeous attack, full mid-palate with a mature tannin structure, lost of refreshing acidity, and a long long finish. Incredibly youthful and vigourous. This is just starting to open up...
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Decanted one hour. Full robe and deep, dark color – no sign of age, really, only slightly light on the edges. The nose is quite alive, very much tell-tale and the taste follows, wonderful complete wine with hints of leather, bacon, butchers floor, chocolate and tobacco, though still elegant, not heavy. It is an almost perfect côte-rotie and in a very special place right now. Will go on, but just entering maturity. Just a wee bit tired (with a hinted of heat) on day 2, the decanting and pouting back could have damaged it just a bit. Will wait another year before the next bottle.
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Purchased one bottle 6 mths ago at 70 EUR . This was utterly delicious. Long, creamy, lots of dark fruit, smoke, wood. Probably the best red wine i had all year
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From the lot without the UK import. This had a slight runup of wine on the cork all the way to the top. Great out of the bottle, and even better with air. Plenty of dark fruit, game, leather, great finish. Seems to be at its peak right now, but not going anywhere. Great stuff. A
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This just fired from the get-go with fabulous smoky, violet and lavender-tinged fruit to go along with a firm structure and a great, silky texture. Really juicy and succulent with classic notes from the Northern Rhone including black pepper, roasted meats, baconfat and floral spices. Still tight on the finish but perfectly balanced for longer aging. Flat out delicious! 94+
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Very floral nose with lilac, lilies; at the same time, it has a gamey, much wilder side with leather, bacon fat, tar, and lots of black fruit. very savoury on the palate; finishes with slightly grippy tannins
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Cote Rotie 2001 and Older (Jamet, Ogier, and Others): The aromas defy description, bypassing the rational part of the brain to connect with something deep and primal. Transfixed, like a cat staring through the window at a cavorting chipmunk, it took a moment to remember that this is a beverage, then I took a sip. The blackberry/raspberry fruit, leather, and a touch of minerals and pepper are there, but are tightly wound around a core of tannin and acidity. It is another wine that probably should have been decanted well in advance, but it was so special on the nose that it is hard to regret it too much.
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Medium red-violet. Striking nose of smoked pork roast, black pepper, cherry pie, mild floral hint with some VA. On entry, the wine is tightly wound of tannin and acid, with modest release of smoky game, fruit pie, camphor. Development in the mouth is slow; it's still a baby. Finishes powerfully, heaps of game, tannin, acid. With three hours air, gradually morphed to a more relaxed and supple presentation. Next day, a stupendously complex and rich drink. Rating for first day drinking 88, final rating reflects extensive time and aeration, and potential to live long in the cellar. From my cold cellar, bottle #5 of six.
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Wonderful wine, decanted 30 minutes before drinking. Primary fruits are gone and the secondary aromas are taking over. On the nose, white pepper, bacon fat, chinese 5 spice, pine tree sap, earth and leather. All intermingled with dark fruit behind the scene. Still fairly dark red and purple in colour with good viscosity. It was a pleasure to drink, great structure, tannins are still present but well integrated, with a long finish. As they say, classic Jamet in a great year, a bit richer than I expected, due in large part to the 1999 growing season I suspect. I think it is starting to peak, a Cote-Rotie in the 12-15 year old window. It could be quite good for 10 plus more years.
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Dark color. Great nose of dark fruit, leather, game. Concentrated, with great fruit and a long finish. This has years ahead of it, but with some air is drinking really well right now. A
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Attention grabbing scents of jammy blackberry, violet, garrigue, wet earth and bacon fat are present. On the palate, the wine is big, concentrated, tannic, animalistic and brawny. The wine finishes with dense, fresh cherry girotte. After 2 hours in the glass, the wine softened and morphed from sweet and sour, sauvage to more of a delicate, array of cherries. Still young, this will improve over the next few years.
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All secondary now, but in a beautiful way. A question aries... are you a master winemaker if your wine has no primary fruit at 20 years of age? Just a question. And then the medicinal I sensed in another northern rhone. Hmm...
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Man, did I want to love this wine but have to say my best taste was from the small glass I poured off early in the day to let it slow ox...strong flavors of iron/mineral but the finish was only modest with enough fruit but no sweetness or purity to truly please the palate..this was lots of game and earth...perhaps just not my thing
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Dark and intensely aromatic. Served non blind with the 2004 Torbreck The Pict which was generally preferred. If a very fine wine could be considered a bit disappointing, this was it with our expectations perhaps unreasonably high. Peppered blueberry and blackberry, some roast, mushroom, easing slightly sweet on the finish.
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This is a wonderful, perfumed Cote Rotie that is very true to its terroir with lovely flavors of dark lavendar/black cherry fruit and black minerals with notes of game and spice. Balanced, fresh and very pure with good acidity and a secondary kick of flavor and complexity on the finish which I look for in great wines. The tannins are ultra-smooth and this wine accompanied game and meat as well as any I can remember. Gorgeous now but seems like it will last a long time and probably grow more complex. Wow!
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Cherry blossoms, honeydew, kirsch, spice, cloves, bacon fat, earth, beef blood and stone make up the complex perfume. Bright, fresh, sappy, red fruit with supple textures ends with a refreshing black cherry filled finish. This powerful, masculine wine has continued evolving and improving since it first arrived in bottle. At 12, this Cote Rotie is ready to enjoy tonight and over the next 10-15 years.
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Saturday Tasting Group (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (Northbrook, IL)): Wonderful. Wine of the Day with the '04 Mouton and just edging out the 94 Quilceda Creek. Super unique funky bacon fat driven nose. Roast red pepper, and really meaty overall. Big massive earthy long sensation aromatically. Savory, sous bois, black flowers. Nose of the day for sure. Glorious effort. Freshness, acidity. Wall of fruit. Just a great wine to be able to sample. As usual - thank you Alan.
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Incredibly concentrated black fruit. Nose is dominated by black pepper with a bit of smoke. Pepper follows through nicely on the palate with dark, almost brooding fruit and a bit of bacon. This was opened, quickly decanted and served. I think this needs a few more years in bottle or a few hours in a decanter.
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Needs a bit of time to open up but after an hour it's quite spectacular, showing a beautiful perfume of ripe dark fruits, meat, violets and bacon and a combination of power and elegance in the mouth; superb and beautifully balanced although still quite young.
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Opened and aired out in the glass for an hour. Paired with rosemary lamb chops. Still dark purple color. Nose of pepper, blackberries, garrigue, raw beef. Wonderfully delineated and varied flavors on the tongue including bacon, pepper, black plum, and currant all exhibiting a tangy exuberance yet also great precision. Nice acidity and filed off tannins. Finish long and evocative of smoke and ringing black fruit. So much going on with this wine, it is incredibly interesting and hedonsitic at the same time.
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Very typical Cote Roti. Big but elegant. Intense but brooding. Some barnyard, mushrooms, smoke and garrigue but still clean higher fruit. Excellent. Still improving.
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Dark red. Meaty, smoky, black peppered nose, with red fruits, garrigue. Medium acid, medium tannin - slightly drying after two two hours. Rich flavors of smoked meat soup and cherry, satisfying. Finishes long, with some drying tannin. Bottle #3 of six.
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Kirsch, pepper dried fruits, bacon fat, earth, licorice and cherries make up the perfume. Full bodied, powerful and structured, with freshness along with dusty tannins, the wine finishes with a smoky cherry sensation. This needs another 2-3 years before it reaches full maturity.
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Tasted together with six other top notch Cote Rotie and Hermitage 1999, the Jamet was clearly the best in the bunch (we didn't have Chave...). Dense nose of bacon fat, herbs and blood. Very chevy, full bodied with sweet attack, and good grip. Mature tannins. Still just in the beginning of a long life!
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Oh wow, it would be hard to image much better aromatics for a Côte-Rôtie. Even with just a 45 minute decant this explodes from the glass with bacon, blood, orange zest, pepper, black olive and so much more. A crazy kaleidoscope. The palate is quite masculine and certainly shows more as an adolescent. The fruit is melting away and deep in the background, but the secondaries haven't really emerged. I suspect this is a good 10 years from really prime drinking, but man oh man what a wonderful baby killing. A really special wine.
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1999 Wines - Served Blind @ Conrads: Served blind. A real stand out for the night. Still very young and fresh but the aromas and flavors are really starting to integrate. I really like the Jamet wines.
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Manu's leaving bash: Lovely nose, sweet, bacon fat. Quite a precise attack, good line, finishes with good acidity. Rounds out in the middle to a lush exuberance. Mmmm. ****1/2
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Immensely powerful, monolithic wine. Dark and imperious, a wall of black fruits, spice and leather. Years from maturity and it will be interesting to follow its evolution. Could be a real powerhouse if everything comes into alignment. Too early to make a call for me.
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I have a bias toward northern rhones, and this just confirms it :) Gorgeous nose of pain grille, tapenade, and tar. Flavors confirm the nose with the addition of mature fruit. Drinking wonderfully right now in terms of tannin/fruit balance. Great wine.
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BBQ with Julie Chris and gang -- Tightly wound but absolutely loaded with smoky meaty bacon fat and asphalt. As it opened up and warmed up more candied red fruit appeared alongside the BBQ smoky bacony Cote Rotie goodness.
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Incredibly concentrated with intense levels of very ripe, sweet, dark fruit. Meaty, beefy, big and bouncy this has a lot going on. Multiple layers of black fruit flood your palate.
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Perfume consisting of rich, deep black and red fruits soaked in bacon fat soars from the glass. Very meaty and beefy. This wine drank well without much airtime.
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Amazing nose. Roast beast, olive, pine, forest floor, blood, and tangerine. This is just gorgeous. The palate is less generous, rather tart, mineral, lots of tapenade, salt and blood. Lots of acidity. Gamey, crunchy, bloody. A real baby. This needs another 5-7 to even begin to unwind. Lots of upward potential but just too wound up for now.
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A truly disappointing bottle. Have had this wine many times and have always loved it. Tonight its normally captivating nose was masked by strong green olive odors. The wine tasted better than it smelled, but I put it aside preferring to sip the 2000 Pegau and Beaucastel also at the dinner. I
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This is my 3rd time tasting this wine and it never fails to excite me. Upon opening, there is some barnyard funk. It settles down to offer up a truly exhilerating nose. Black fruit, red fruit, roasted meat, animal fur, graphite and even a floral element. You can keep your nose in the glass forever. Lovely sweet attack. A little tight on the palate on this night. Great structure to keep this thing going for years to come. It's been hard to keep my hands off this wine. Sad to see I'm down to just one more bottle.
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Northern Rhone OL. Wonderful deep red color that starts with scents of red cherries and black currant. Tasted a bit dusty, with some green vegetative qualities, with integrated very fine tannins. I do not think this wine was ready—age a few more years.
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This is a great bottle of wine (best Jamet I have had) that I think I caught at a bit ofan ackward stage, maybe without enough air. The raw materials are huge, the mouthfeel is liquid velvet and so deep. The bacon fat nose was very appealing, my complaint tonight was the balance. On first sip the wine initially showed some maturity and then the red and black crashed down like a fruit bomb and squashed the elegance. Tannisn were still evident. Long finsh. This wine needs at least 5 years or more in my book, but the pure glycerin mouthfeel reminds me of a LaLa, something I have not seen in Jamet in other vintages. My score is probably consevative.
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Opened this the night after the 98 just to see.....Outstanding concentration, purity of fruit on the palate....much more elegant than the 98 which seemed to be all about power right now....the 99 in contrast had more earth tones and bacon with a suttle pepper influence that gave the wine lift and palate saturation....but this wine is not heavy at all and would be great with food. I think that in 5 years the development in the bottle will be amazing.
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Le Cinq (Hotel George V): Served at cellar temperature and somewhat subdued. Decanted, but still was shy in the glass. I have every reason to expect this to blossom but patience is essential. Lovely balance and finish but sleepy at this point..more time is needed
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For the second consecutive flight -- the best nose goes to Jamet over the Chaves. Very similar to the 1998 with smoky bacon and flowers -- but this is less reductive and adds a very interesting green coffee note that I really enjoy. Worth the price of admission for the nose alone -- it's a great mouthful of wine too. I can't imagine someone not loving this wine.
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North Rhône Offline (Rotisserie Jules, South Kensington): A very deep, murky mauve. Very elegant, fragrant nose: sweet black fruit with some viognier apparently evident. Light and fragrant on the palate. Lots of tannic structure. Very even throughout. very Good Indeed.
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Dark purple hue. Nose refreshing and open, full of mountain flowers and open air barbeque. The palate is tight, but one can already taste the components of great energy in the mix: lots of bacon, pepper, blackberry, minerals, crushed rock, glycerin, and licorice. There is an edgy tingling to the texture which imparts liveliness and some real excitement. Lengthy, fun finish. Wow, with a few years this is going to be a stunner!
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JAMET Cote-Rotie vertical 1996-2000 - plus a few Champagnes: After trying the '95 - '98 vintages of Jamet and noticing a general similarity (see TNs), I sat staring down the '99, which was almost black in the glass, with deep, brooding aromas of black fruits, prunes, espresso and cigar. As you drink this wine you can almost see it in 3-D: layers of fruit, earthy, secondary elements, and the tannic support at its core. Substantial structure is burried beneath all the stuffing. Very proportional / balanced. This is a sensational wine, to be sure, and, needless to say, the group was unanimously blown away by the '99. Interestingly, four out of the six of us had initially tasted the '99 together at the winery in March of 2001, and despite the fact that all of us own some, none of us had had it since. Although it drinks sinfully well now, we all agreed that this will be phenomenal in five+ years. I think it will be screaming around 2012-2015, when the inevitable tertiary components kick it into a higher gear, and it will probably live past 2020 in a decent cellar. WOW. One of the best wines I've had this year - it snuck in under the wire on 12/29! Also, a contender for best under $50 retail wine I've ever had ($46.79, after discount). I wish I owned cases of this. Note: we opened a second bottle due to one member of the group arriving late to the tasting (one of the hazards of bringing a back up - they always seem to get drunk, don't they?!).
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Wow...my first one in probably 2 years, just wanted to check in. Has lost much of the baby fat and probably as shut down as it will ever be but there's so much raw material there it's a joy to drink now. Tons of minerals and iron on the nose and palate. Can only be Cote Rotie and only Jamet. Was worried about the vintage being too fruit forward, but this wine has such balance that will be profound. Kept on thinking back to high school science - kinetic energy, like a fully wound spring that is waiting to explode. Can drink and enjoy now, or give it another 1.5-2 years to be in the zone.
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Bordeaux "en Primeur" Tasting and Rhone side visit; 3/29/2004-4/2/2004 (France): Dinner in the Rhone. Concentrated fruit with massive spice explosion on the nose. Dark fruit with incredible extraction from start to finish. Wine was tight for a few hours, but came out of its shell with lots of power. Enormous long finish, I'd give this at least 5 years, probably 10+ years to reach its zenith.
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This wine is very different than the 98. It is really almost dominated by the sweet fruit but it is so sexy! The attack is smooth and voluptous. The nose has that briary sweet fruit that I love in a real Cote Rotie. No detectable oak. The palate is a little unfocused and fruit driven but who cares when you get surrounded by all that perfect fruit. The underbrush comes through on the finish. The finish is LONG. This salvages a bad wine weekend!
This wine is so nice and worth every penny. Just glad I don't have to pay $110 to get one now. A+ Cote Rotie in the most voluptuous sense.
BTW, I love this young Cote Rotie. (I like older one's too.) No baby killer here. This is really nice for what it is.
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Christine's Going Away Party: This wine was rather tight and not giving up much. Mostly olives and a roasted quality on the nose. Hints of good black fruit lurk underneath the closed body of the wine on the palate. Needs time.
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2/1/2024 - gregg g wrote:
Starts off a tad reserved with leather, violets and black pepper. Once it opens everything is amped up. The palate is deep, bloody and showing gobs of complex flavors. So beautifully balanced and composed. There is an elegant density to the mature flavors. Fantastic!
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1/3/2024 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
Library release / new label. Excellent bottle. Completely classic. Tons of black olive.
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10/27/2023 - godx wrote: 93 Points
Gorgeous nose and one that takes you straight to Northern Rhone. Nose is darker red fruits, olive tapenade, touch of florals and pepper. On the palate this shows a bit more youthfully with plenty of weight, length and fruit to balance the fine and polished tannins. There’s great acidity on the backend keeping the profile lively and vibrant. The finish is long and silky. In a great place now but has the stuffing to continue aging gracefully for many more years.
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6/28/2023 - benjamin96 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Magnifique, enivrant, j'aurais pu siffler la bouteille tout seul.
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3/31/2023 - mimik Likes this wine:
Perfect. Ready to go. Special bottle
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3/1/2023 - Jonathanmustang Likes this wine: 94 Points
Nez magnifique, très ouvert sur le bacon, la viande, l’eucalyptus, le poivre noir et les épices douces
L’attaque en bouche est très fruitée, voir un peu surette, c’est viandeux et fumé et même une mini touche de tannins. L’ensemble est dense complexe et très animal
Superbe finale avec un rappel des arômes perçus avant
Superbe vin !
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12/18/2022 - ludwigbpm wrote: 94 Points
Bu juste après le Chave et encore à l'aveugle, il était facile d'aller vers Côte-Rotie avec ce côté lardé, sueur d'animal (bretts?), de la tapenade d'olives noires encore bien présente. C'est un vin qui a bien tenu et clairement pour les amateurs de syrah de ce style très "animal", certains pourront être rebutés je crois par le profil aromatique. 94
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11/12/2022 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful nose of soaring aromatics inclusive of raspberry, black pepper, and violet. On the palate a melange of red and black fruit, well spiced, shows good concentration but no sense of weight. Moderate length to the finish of dark fruit. Very good and close to peak but zero rush.
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11/6/2022 - Achermann Likes this wine: 93 Points
Obvious age on the nose with aged meat (game), smoky aromas, sour cherries, iron, tobacco. Not as aged on the palate - very much alive still. I think, it's at its peak. Drink.
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11/5/2022 - tobyc Likes this wine: 93 Points
Extreme bouquet w. canned corn and tuna. Bloody and smoky meats, sweet fleshy and hints of tobacco. Juicy, fleshy, bloody palate. Still plenty of life, great balance and length. At its peak now.
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9/24/2022 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Smokey aromatics, dark purple fruit. All in all, remains delicious.
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9/24/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
This gem was worth waiting for. Clearly in the zone, the wine screamed with its smoky nose filled with bouquet garni, sage, peppery red fruits, and raspberries, the wine is full-bodied, intense, long, zesty, and vibrant. There is length, purity, power, and character that does not want to stop. No decanting needed, just pop and pour, drink from 2022-2035.
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9/15/2022 - Hanibal Likes this wine: 96 Points
Close to the best Syrah I have ever tasted, tertiary taste but still good fruit on blackberries with very present notes of bacon. Very long. Don't see a reason to way much longer it is great here
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5/10/2022 - jtsejersen@gmail.com Likes this wine: 95 Points
Huge nose with notes of dried raw meat, black pepper, bacon fat, black olives rust and iron. In contrast to the powerful nose the taste is lean, stringent and with a vibrant acidity wich brings a cool freshness to the evolved nose. The tannins are smooth as silk but the mineral backbone is still very much in focus… Wow!…
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2/14/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 96 Points
Big, deep, rich and meaty with great acidity. Youthful but drinking really well with an hour or two of air. Seems to be right at the beginning of its peak maturity window. Excellent wine.
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2/9/2022 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Smoky and feral, very pure on the palate. Textbook northern Rhone.
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12/28/2021 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 96 Points
Deep and complex nose of dark fruit, olives, smoke, and meat, with more of a red fruit character coming out with air. Great acidity and structure with more red fruit leaning flavors, cedar, and savory notes on the palate. Very long finish. Amazing wine, the nose is just absolutely gorgeous. Feels like it’s early in its maturity. 96+
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12/9/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
Benchmark. Consistent with past notes. Particularly olive this showing. Smoky, wild, but overwhelmingly floral. Clean and robust red and black fruit behind the massive aromatic projection. Outstanding. The floral purity coupled with the scorched earth harmoniously hitting these two notes is among my favourite things in wine. 94 - 95.
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10/15/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
This needed many hours of air to reach peak. Wild notes of feral things and sweet dark earth finally settled down in the glass as the wine continued to unfurl all evening. Beautiful flavors of violet spice and charcoal minerals began to emerge and the texture of the wine is like velvety silk. The finish is layered and flowing with incredibly supple tannins and complex notes of minerals, charred embers and floral spice. Wow!
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9/17/2021 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for just over 2 hours. Inky opaque purple. Nose of char, blackberry, pepper, meaty tones, lavender. Layers of poised, silky blackberry and plum fruit on the palate cut with pepper, mocha, and smoky beef blood. Nicely acidic with smoothed tannin. Longer finish of pure dark plum and pepper. Classic wine still fresh and youthful.
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7/18/2021 - bill00 wrote: 94 Points
This was popped and poured and consumed quickly and clearly would've benefited from a proper decant, but regardless was great as always. Classic smoke and dark fruit. Great palate that is plush and smooth without any heaviness.
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6/8/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Perfect magnum of this double-decanted 3+ hours. Intense mineral and lavendar nose which followed through on the palate. The texture here is the thing with a beautiful layered silky mouthfeel and expressive flavors of charcoal, roasted game, black fruits and floral spice. The finish is just gorgeous with complex notes of minerals and campfire embers. A stunning Cote Rotie drunk at its apogee.
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6/6/2021 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Half bottle. Super good, very sexy soaring nose. Ripe and full palate with superb length. This will go decades...
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4/16/2021 - bram_epicurien Likes this wine: 95 Points
Friday evening in Singapore at Odette. Pairing it with several courses, white fish, pigeon and vegetable based ones. Deep ruby Color. Beautiful nose full of flowers and dark cherry and raspberries, as well as smoke and earthiness. Med acidity, full body, high alcohol, Med tannins, Med + flavor intesity, Long finish. Beautiful fruit, green freshness, pepper, smoke, earth, mushrooms, a wet forest floor that keeps lingering easily for 30 seconds. A true Burgundian silkyness to the tannins and velvety structure, truly beautiful. This is Excellent, it is my first to taste 20y+ cote rotie and I know why I like it, just like the romans 2000 years ago ;)
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3/1/2021 - Mr T wrote:
Much better than prior bottle
Wonderfully mature
Classic Syrah aromas and flavor
Gorgeous wine
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1/24/2021 - fatboi Likes this wine: 94 Points
no notes but memorable very good... olives, meat , depth and purity. 94/95
got better with time was opened up and hour before drinking
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11/19/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Such an expressive Cote Rotie at this point with incredible flavors of black fruits, charcoal embers and roasted meats. Full and silky with so much perfumed complexity showing additional notes of coal dust, floral spice, graphite minerals and smoked earth. Peaking now. If there is a wine out there that is currently more expressive of this great terroir, I need to taste it to believe it. Wow!
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10/26/2020 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
2nd release. Very elegant, majestic wine - still on the young side. Very cool and vertical presence. Minerals are dominating a long with olives, hanged meat, black berries; gains weight in the glass.
#Knudhule#PB
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8/30/2020 - B Paul wrote:
Released from winery recently (last year, I believe) and was in great condition. Needed an hour or so in the decanter to open up and settle down. The nose is really expressive with meat, olive and berry. Great wine.
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7/12/2020 - johnh1001 wrote: 90 Points
I am trying to get to know this producer and was very excited to have this bottle after reading the other notes. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the best experience. Day one was very meaty, earth with some nice spice and charcuterie on the nose. After a couple hours some bright red fruit came through but overall this seemed a bit dense and foursquare. On day two, it was really just meat, blood and earth. Maybe not the best example.
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4/3/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Gorgeous nose with cured meat, dried flowers, olives and stems. Ultra smooth and weightless on the palate with latent transperancy in a femine way. The last sip was the best. The most impressive and complete Jamet I have ever bad.
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3/22/2020 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
The nose on this is just booming: massive projection of roses, cured meat, smoke, acrylic, clay, and vibrant red berry fruit projects from the glass. A wafting and intricate bouquet. Overall clean and pure but with the trace highlights of rusticity and faint sauvage. Black cherry, menthol, pastels. The palate has plenty of fruit power but is nicely resolved and has a developed silky texture. Clay mineral and bright cherry. 94-95 Very impressive, detailed and intricate.
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3/3/2020 - beatles wrote: 97 Points
Late release. Medicine cabinet galore here, black olives, cool, calm structure, it's only a Northern Song but oh, what a song; I am sold, once again.
#Jordnær
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2/2/2020 - rlove wrote: 95 Points
Beguiling, soaring aromatics include bacon fat, blackberry, violet, and earth. Crescendo concentration that gains power on the midpalate before an explosive finish that lingers for minutes. Despite the power, there's hardly any weight, and this is made all the more weightless by moderate-high but soft acidity. I often find Côte-Rôtie offers killer aromatics but a less complete palate, I suspect due to the Viognier, but in 1999 this delivers in both. Excellent today but not yet at its peak.
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2/2/2020 - Taronti wrote: 94 Points
Bought on release for $80. Nose very much of roasted meat with some cassis, cherries and leather. Still has fruit on the palate with cleansing acidity. Firm, long but civilized finish. Would seem to have years left but great to drink now. Becomes more integrated after a hour or so airing.
Next day - most of meat gone but more fruity. Palate more integrated with beautiful long finish.
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2/1/2020 - Raage wrote: 92 Points
A l’aveugle chez C.
Un nez de côte rôtie flamboyante, assez pur, vieux cassis, lardé, profond, violette, épicé, pas tout jeune mais très engageant! La bouche est hélas un peu dure, La finale manque de finesse, sans doute un gros millesime qui doit encore se polir (trop boisé, trop extrait, trop de raffles?) le vin enchante le palais par son aromatique plus que son tactile musclé; sur le bourguignon lardé, il déployait des arômes plus frais de pêche! Une côte-rôtie ambitieuse pour sûr, un grand nom (grandes places, landonne…?)
Une fois découvert, je me pose toujours la même question: les vieux Jamet d’avant 2000 etaient-ils plus boisés qu’aujourd’hui?
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1/9/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was a funny one - table next to us at restaurant (who had gone through quite a bit of stuff) had left around half a bottle of this. Seeing that I asked the sommelier what was wrong with it and the answer was they didn't like it. Well I didn't refuse a pour to try as I never had this vintage of Jamet. I actually really liked it. Maybe not quite as exciting as a terrific bottle of 97 I had a few weeks ago but in the same vein. Nice mature Cote Rotie with all the goodies of roasted meat, pepper. Not a fruity wine but rather a savoury one as those Jamet wines are when mature. Well I went for a second pour of this, shame to have this go to waste. I guess the other group simply doesn't like aged Northern Rhone and I should maybe be travelling in their slip stream more often ;-)
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12/22/2019 - Louvin Likes this wine: 94 Points
after couple hr double decant then at restaurant this opened slowily as it warmed. Evolving from red fruited with shallow nose into a medium deep wine meaty and savory notes. A long finish with still some tannins that should keep this baby improving for years to come. Excellent balance of fruit/acid/tannins at this stage. I'll hold for a few more before trying again.
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12/16/2019 - Luke Wine wrote: 93 Points
Really good. Smoky, meaty, savoury & delicious. Love the weight & the shape. Bloomed initially with some air & maybe tailed off slightly at the end. This bottle looked at the peak of its development for me.
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10/26/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
Leoville and Langoa with Damien Barton Sartorius: So easy and accessible, the 99 Jamet Cote Rotie shows a super classic nose of roasted meat, cherry, earth, and leather. Potent, but in no way heavy - actually quite fresh, which for me marks out the Northern Rhones really worth drinking. Wonderful presence on the palate. terrific stuff.
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10/11/2019 - Argrath wrote: 94 Points
(Blind tasting)
Full, smoky and rich nose. Very good depth. Blackberry and violets in lovely comination. Peppery and meaty in a perfectly developed way. Nice hints of coffee oak only adds complexity. Very seductive.
Fullish but elegant palate. Still tannic. Smoky, meaty with charcuterie. Tobacco and flower freshness intermingles. Oak and violet fruit in dense, tight and very expressive style. Very, very good. Long finish.
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9/24/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
Eclectic Older Wines from the Rare Wine Company with Mannie Berk (The Morris, San Francisco): Ruby. Riper than the Garon, lots of mint. Medium weight, sweet black fruit, long and earthy. Round and complex with significant tannins still to resolve. Terrific wine still on its upward swing.
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5/9/2019 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
Late release. Served vis-avis the Levet 1998. Still very roung, smooth, fruit, black olives here, dark fruit chocolate, very complex with many levels. Gets better in the glass. Can be drunk now, but sill very early days IMHO.
#CP#Liverpool-Barcelona
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3/2/2019 - MartyL Likes this wine: 95 Points
A wow bottle. On the nose it’s this shifting melange of rare meat and violets, and it benefits from an hour or so in the decanter as the aromas become more expressive. On the palate too there’s an interplay between sweet and savory. The fruit character is black edging towards red if that makes sense. Very much shows the yin/yang of great Jamet. Sauvage and elegant at the same time. There’s enough tannin left on the finish to forecast plenty of time left for further development or staying power but to me this wine is at an absolute peak.
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2/16/2019 - DougLee wrote: flawed
Seemed off and alcoholic.
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1/27/2019 - rlove wrote: 94 Points
The 1999 Côte-Rôtie is on fire tonight, densely packed with roast meat, crushed flower, and dark fruit. Vibrant, expressive, gorgeous. Huge upside.
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12/14/2018 - salil wrote: 94 Points
HDH Dec auction trip/dinners at SKY and RPM Italian; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018: So this was an adventure - at dinner, a touch foursquare and blocky with the fruit still very rich and primary, and giving the impression it needs a lot more time despite plenty of developing meaty and smoky scents. Leftovers the next day (at lunch) transform into something much more polished and fragrant, and it's much more enjoyable then showing far more aromatic complexity, more freshness and brightness, and great overall balance.
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12/14/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Wines Tasted at HDH Auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Small glass, brief note. So much roasted meat and ripe, ultra dense black berry and plum. So powerful and precise, a wonderfully clean Jamet, consistent with other bottles of this wine. Great now, still with possible upside.
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12/13/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): This wasn't showing as well as the 1998 today. It has similar smoky and briny tones as well, but the fruit here shows a lot more red and primary. The acidity too, is a bit more raw than the 1998. Lots of structure, this is a pretty big wine that isn't anywhere close to resolution. In time, this may be the better wine than the 1998, but I think the 1998 is more enjoyable today.
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12/12/2018 - hprphf wrote:
Acker 2018/12 (Vaucluse): Too acidic, not sure how I feel about this. NR
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11/24/2018 - eboracum Likes this wine: 90 Points
This Côte Rôtie was elegant and had all the right flavours, griotte cherry, violet, grilled meat and olive, together with a silky texture, bright moreish acidity and decent firmness towards the finish and length. However, unlike the surrounding vintages, it was not really singing and seemed a bit simplistic. This may just be a matter of insufficient time. I make a mental note to leave the remaining two bottles aside for a few years. Nevertheless very good.
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10/8/2018 - rossi.wine wrote: 96 Points
Tasted after Chapoutier’s 2012 La Mordorée. Beautiful, almost perfumed nose - smoked meat, spices, crushed stones, leather, dark fruit, hints of tobacco and earth. On the palate totally harmonious - vibrant, fresh with some tannic structure, pure fruit, lots of intensity and elegance and very fine length. Fantastic! Drink or keep. 95-97
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8/10/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful bouquet, violet flowers, acrylics and ceramics, ink, blueberry, charcoal and pit smoke. Peppercorn. Awesome. This is like a bouquet of lilies. Palate is fresh, big and intense but texturally light. Gaining weight, brambly blackberry. As good as this was tonight, I think best results are years ahead. From the Nov 2016 Acker sale, excellent looking bottle.
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8/8/2018 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 93 Points
A bit subdued at first, but it blossomed with air. Very precise and crystalline, though hints of white pepper and smoked meat add a savage undertone. While very good now, it isn't as thrilling on a primal level as the 1998 is and I think it will show better with more time in the cellar, or at the minimum some time in a decanter.
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7/30/2018 - clayfu wrote:
99 Jamet is an exercise in youth and density. There’s a lot of dark fruit and ripe vibrancy going on from the vintage. The core is deep and plentiful. Still not showing much secondary in comparison to the 97/98 before it. This one is gonna be a bottle that you can age for quite awhile. Drink those 98s while you wait for the 99 to come around!
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6/25/2018 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 94 Points
Jamet Côte-Rôtie vertical.This showed first a little more advanced but funnily enough calmed down a little over the course of the evening. Some notes of mushroom, earth, damp cellar, but this cleared up a little during the tasting. Also the typical notes of dark berries, meaty notes and flowers appeared. Pretty full-bodied, with medium+ acidity and medium tannin that has melted away nicely. Good length. A very good CR but from my perspective was outshone by some of the other vintages on this occasion.
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2/23/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Awesome wine. Still quite young but with a 2-hr decant showing silky black fruits with tons of graphite/charcoal minerals. A big wine for sure but so smooth with great complexity on the finish. Just stunning juice! 96+
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1/5/2018 - clayfu wrote:
Needed about 2 hours to shine, initially really shy and short on the palate. It then becomes really expressive with loads of black pepper and smoked meat on the nose and the palate is deep and long with dark earthy fruit. Still a brawny tannic wine. Palate still showing a touch shy even a couple hours in as the finish is clipped so i'd hold the bottles you have, but it's ready for the long haul.
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12/26/2017 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 94 Points
litt lysere rød, dyp kjerne.
Rødbær, pepper, noe mere spicy. Intens nese. Presis rødbærspreget munn med kirsebær og jordbær. Noe spice og tobakk. Litt sopp. Tippet Jamet blindt. . Balansert, frisk og lang. Eikepreget lang avslutning. Sexy. Jeg visste på forhånd dette var Nord Rhône. Kunne lett blitt tatt for en toppklasse Burgund. 94
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11/25/2017 - vinkeger wrote:
Medium pluss intens nese. Litt tilbakeholden. Rått kjøtt, rypeblod. Polert treverk. Hakket mer utviklet enn 06 og 02, men langt fra moden. Stram i munn, medium tannin, men en frisk, medium pluss intens syre. Krydret rødfrukt. Balansert smakskurve, medium pluss lang utgang. Beskjeden nese og tøff i munn, trenger mer tid. Gi minst fem år til. Heftig vin ellers, kompakt og konsentrert med stort potensiale.
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7/8/2017 - wineguy75 Likes this wine: 93 Points
5 hour decant. characteristics of cote rotie, but not as expressive as i like and poor QPR. Disappointed. All liked a Saxum at half the price much better.
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6/24/2017 - cubswinws Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lovely wine with soft spice and smoky finish. Quite nice!
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5/4/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Rare Northern Rhone Dinner (Tocqueville): Highly expressive nose that has black pepper, smouldering barbecue pit, green stemmy florals, coffee grounds, and new leather. Completely in line with past experiences and everything one could hope for out of this. Incredibly aromatic.
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5/4/2017 - OenoEd Likes this wine: 97 Points
Just an incredibly exotic and erotic nose: sassafras, ginger root, black pepper, wet hay, sex sweat, violets; the intense floral palate penetration weakens the knees. Cigar smoke and complex French perfume finish. Wow!
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3/11/2017 - frogwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
2 hour decant. Nose was spectacular - incredibly complex and deep. Tar, smoke, roses, meat, black fruits - textbook and so much more. Palate was a bit closed, at least compared to the nose. Very tight knit, fine tannins. Fruit was pure and very dark. Only a hint of secondary notes. Mid-palate could have used a bit more weight. This has many good years ahead of it.
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10/27/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Domaine Jamet Côte-Rôtie Dinner (Formento's - Chicago IL): Opened and decanted 30 minutes before serving, I should have done that hours earlier. Black berry and plum aromas with black cherry, black pepper, licorice, and smoked sausage. Aromas were sensational from the start, as were upfront flavors, but tannins were as prominent as flavors from middle forward for at least an hour. Some thought it clipped, but they were wrong as the tannins softened in glass, albeit at least one hour after initially poured. I plan on cellaring my remaining bottles longer.
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9/16/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Another fantastic Jamet. Wonderful nose right off the initial pour: big perfume upfront with savory aging meats, jerky, and black pepper following up. Still has heaps of black currant and blackberry fruit. A very big wine to be sure, but already so expressive and aromatically elegant. Immensely flavorful on the palate but never overbearing. Still juicy but showing all the roasted complexity of a good Northern Rhone. Great drinking tonight but definitely want to hold on to these for years to come.
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6/1/2016 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow, this has reached a fabulous place for drinking now as the fruit is still prominent but tertiary flavors are developing that make the finish oh so complex. There are classic flavors of smoked meats, black pepper, baconfat and violets that lead to a fantastic finish with great floral lift and mineral crunch. As always with Jamet, the Burgundy of Cote Rotie and this is the best bottle of Jamet I've ever tasted. Plenty of life left. Wow!
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4/6/2016 - LW31 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bam. Exceptional. Very sexy and rich. Classic bacon and feral meatiness. Olives. Spice. Miles of life ahead of it. Beautifully balanced too. A perfect Côte Rotie.
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3/25/2016 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Big, seductive, and feral nose that's exemplar Côte-Rôtie, with notes of black olive, blackberry, bacon fat, and smoke. Black fruit and roast meat in the mouth, with great acidity and low alcohol. For all the hedonism, this is quite pure and clean. There's still some grippy tannins, and secondary notes have yet to emerge. If lucky this will evolve positively for another 10 years.
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2/9/2016 - Philippe_C wrote: 92 Points
Nice nose of dried angus beef, characoal, roasted beef, animal, tamed leather... Very dry tannins, but very silky, bacon and dried cherries.
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12/27/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Wines at Mike's: A nose suggesting an Old World, in fact Northern Rhone, Syrah: spices, black pepper, sweaty leather horse saddle and fried bacon fat notes, with more funky, almost feral elements. In the mouth, you feel the power, the Jamet is still pretty primary. Very clean and pure, with quite a volume of unresolved fine grained tannin. There is plenty of bright, dark berry fruit but also attractive umami, savoury elements, particularly on the long, dry finish. Hold for 5+ years. This Jamet looks excellent!
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8/9/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
#DCInvasion (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Compared to the 2000, which I thought was much more approachable, this wine showed much more charcuterie and bacon on the nose and palate. There's a slight feral quality to it as well, as well as exuberant black fruit that needs more time to come out and play. Despite the density and richness, there's no sense at all that this wine is heavy, and that's probably thanks to an undercurrent of acidity. I would strongly suggest negating the rule of 15 here and letting these sleep for a few more years.
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5/15/2015 - tcarter Likes this wine: 93 Points
La Las Dinner: A great bottle of wine, but seemed a bit closed down right now. I would hold onto this for a few more years before opening again. I felt like it's probably got at least 20+ years of life in it.
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2/13/2015 - Philippe_C wrote: 90 Points
The nose was very black fruit with cold smoke... taste was quite cold with some drying tannins, black cherries ... good but not great... was killed by the Fonsalette 1989 Cuvée Syrah!!
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2/7/2015 - 5laton wrote:
Intensely salt pork, black olive, earthy dominated wine with excellent concentration and richness. Yum - delightful.
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12/12/2014 - Rezy13 wrote: 91 Points
Galoots Lunch (Double Zero Napoletano- Sandy Springs): Very excited when I saw this bottle, great vintage but the wine was well into its secondary phase, was expecting more richness and nobility, aged showing lots of olive and brine, ripe berry, plum skin, lots of leather, black pepper, fresher but lacked the balance; tasty just lacked wow factor.
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11/29/2014 - Terry wrote:
Really nice.
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11/7/2014 - MC wrote:
Very good, precise - in particular for the vintage. Will hold for a bit but very good now. A-
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10/6/2014 - beatles Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very dark, very young very tight - decanting is a must - 6 hours recommended. Comes across as a very cool style côte-rôtie with loads of mineralsk, black pepper, olies and game, but hands off, please, as this is far from maturity. Lovely, and very serious, nevertheless. (Birthday at Formel B)
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7/4/2014 - JOsgood wrote:
Really great stuff. Lots of olives on the nose and palate. Fully mature now. Elegant in style.
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7/4/2014 - the godfather wrote:
I like a lot
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6/20/2014 - bill00 wrote: 95 Points
Similar notes to previous bottles.
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6/5/2014 - MAOC wrote:
Decanted for an hour. Beautiful wine – just entering its prime drinking period (to my taste), excellent depth, starting off with the typical roasted meat flavours, but opening up gradually to reveal lovely pure fruit and floral notes. Great length. Clearly has another 5-10 years at least but no need to wait. ****1/2
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5/27/2014 - Paul D wrote:
Northern Rhone WIMPS (La Trompette, Chiswick): Deep ruby. Blackcurrant fruit, florals, bacon quite prominent, touch of vanilla too. Medium/full bodied, polished, modern dark fruit, still quite firmly tannic but plenty of depth and matiere, bacon notes again. Long, excellent, plenty of scope for improvement. ****
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5/12/2014 - MC wrote:
This was a Kacher bottle without the UK label. Very good out of the bottle, with a lot of barnyard and leather along with tart cherry fruit. Solid wine, and I preferred it slightly over the 99 St Cosme, although it is a touch short and dry on the finish. A-
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2/27/2014 - MC wrote:
Allyn and Scott UK shipping label. Run-up about 1/2 the cork, but this was really good and consistent with my prior note. A-/A
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1/30/2014 - Pknut wrote:
Lovely wine. Seems to be just entering its prime zone, the sides of the palate feeling a bit softer than last time. The nose and palate deliver an array of Cote Rotie loveliness, from lavender to meats to dried herbs, like seasoning atop a soft bed of blue and black currant fruit. Classic wine that is drinking very well now. Thanks, Mike. Fairway Cafe.
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1/4/2014 - Philippe_C wrote: 89 Points
Cold nose, coccinelles, charbon, poussière... very cold tannins, high acidity, lacking fruit, not impressed!!
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12/26/2013 - bill00 wrote: 96 Points
I have always loved this wine and this was another great bottle. Tremendously complex aromatics of bloody meat, olive, pepper and earth. The palate is seamless - so smooth. This carries the ripeness of the '99 vintage so well - it's low acid but still in balance and doesn't come close to being overripe. A great Jamet.
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11/20/2013 - UTPK wrote:
Had the 1999 Jamet, Burgeau, Clusel Roch, Rostaing and Gallet together. 5 fairly traditional producers. All decanted 4 hours. Jamet was clearly best of the bunch. The most comlex and deep nose of bacon fat, wet fur, blood and black currants. Sweet and gorgeous attack, full mid-palate with a mature tannin structure, lost of refreshing acidity, and a long long finish. Incredibly youthful and vigourous. This is just starting to open up...
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10/27/2013 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
Decanted one hour. Full robe and deep, dark color – no sign of age, really, only slightly light on the edges. The nose is quite alive, very much tell-tale and the taste follows, wonderful complete wine with hints of leather, bacon, butchers floor, chocolate and tobacco, though still elegant, not heavy. It is an almost perfect côte-rotie and in a very special place right now. Will go on, but just entering maturity. Just a wee bit tired (with a hinted of heat) on day 2, the decanting and pouting back could have damaged it just a bit. Will wait another year before the next bottle.
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10/27/2013 - Roughl wrote: 94 Points
Purchased one bottle 6 mths ago at 70 EUR . This was utterly delicious. Long, creamy, lots of dark fruit, smoke, wood. Probably the best red wine i had all year
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10/14/2013 - MC wrote:
From the lot without the UK import. This had a slight runup of wine on the cork all the way to the top. Great out of the bottle, and even better with air. Plenty of dark fruit, game, leather, great finish. Seems to be at its peak right now, but not going anywhere. Great stuff. A
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6/22/2013 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
This just fired from the get-go with fabulous smoky, violet and lavender-tinged fruit to go along with a firm structure and a great, silky texture. Really juicy and succulent with classic notes from the Northern Rhone including black pepper, roasted meats, baconfat and floral spices. Still tight on the finish but perfectly balanced for longer aging. Flat out delicious! 94+
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6/8/2013 - fhirsch Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very floral nose with lilac, lilies; at the same time, it has a gamey, much wilder side with leather, bacon fat, tar, and lots of black fruit. very savoury on the palate; finishes with slightly grippy tannins
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5/19/2013 - MikeATL Likes this wine:
Cote Rotie 2001 and Older (Jamet, Ogier, and Others): The aromas defy description, bypassing the rational part of the brain to connect with something deep and primal. Transfixed, like a cat staring through the window at a cavorting chipmunk, it took a moment to remember that this is a beverage, then I took a sip. The blackberry/raspberry fruit, leather, and a touch of minerals and pepper are there, but are tightly wound around a core of tannin and acidity. It is another wine that probably should have been decanted well in advance, but it was so special on the nose that it is hard to regret it too much.
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4/7/2013 - Hodby wrote: 95 Points
Medium red-violet. Striking nose of smoked pork roast, black pepper, cherry pie, mild floral hint with some VA. On entry, the wine is tightly wound of tannin and acid, with modest release of smoky game, fruit pie, camphor. Development in the mouth is slow; it's still a baby. Finishes powerfully, heaps of game, tannin, acid. With three hours air, gradually morphed to a more relaxed and supple presentation. Next day, a stupendously complex and rich drink. Rating for first day drinking 88, final rating reflects extensive time and aeration, and potential to live long in the cellar. From my cold cellar, bottle #5 of six.
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3/6/2013 - PBL Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wonderful wine, decanted 30 minutes before drinking. Primary fruits are gone and the secondary aromas are taking over. On the nose, white pepper, bacon fat, chinese 5 spice, pine tree sap, earth and leather. All intermingled with dark fruit behind the scene. Still fairly dark red and purple in colour with good viscosity. It was a pleasure to drink, great structure, tannins are still present but well integrated, with a long finish. As they say, classic Jamet in a great year, a bit richer than I expected, due in large part to the 1999 growing season I suspect. I think it is starting to peak, a Cote-Rotie in the 12-15 year old window. It could be quite good for 10 plus more years.
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1/17/2013 - don_quichotte Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious already though should get better with time. A bit more acidity than I would have thought. Classic Jamet.
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1/6/2013 - MC wrote:
Dark color. Great nose of dark fruit, leather, game. Concentrated, with great fruit and a long finish. This has years ahead of it, but with some air is drinking really well right now. A
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12/22/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Attention grabbing scents of jammy blackberry, violet, garrigue, wet earth and bacon fat are present. On the palate, the wine is big, concentrated, tannic, animalistic and brawny. The wine finishes with dense, fresh cherry girotte. After 2 hours in the glass, the wine softened and morphed from sweet and sour, sauvage to more of a delicate, array of cherries. Still young, this will improve over the next few years.
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12/8/2012 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
All secondary now, but in a beautiful way. A question aries... are you a master winemaker if your wine has no primary fruit at 20 years of age? Just a question. And then the medicinal I sensed in another northern rhone. Hmm...
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1/22/2012 - Mr T wrote:
Man, did I want to love this wine but have to say my best taste was from the small glass I poured off early in the day to let it slow ox...strong flavors of iron/mineral but the finish was only modest with enough fruit but no sweetness or purity to truly please the palate..this was lots of game and earth...perhaps just not my thing
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1/16/2012 - smphelps wrote: 90 Points
Dark and intensely aromatic. Served non blind with the 2004 Torbreck The Pict which was generally preferred. If a very fine wine could be considered a bit disappointing, this was it with our expectations perhaps unreasonably high. Peppered blueberry and blackberry, some roast, mushroom, easing slightly sweet on the finish.
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12/5/2011 - Eubulos wrote: flawed
Seems heat damaged, oxidized, what a shame for a 70 € bottle of stuff so high rated here.
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11/12/2011 - dream wrote: 95 Points
This is a wonderful, perfumed Cote Rotie that is very true to its terroir with lovely flavors of dark lavendar/black cherry fruit and black minerals with notes of game and spice. Balanced, fresh and very pure with good acidity and a secondary kick of flavor and complexity on the finish which I look for in great wines. The tannins are ultra-smooth and this wine accompanied game and meat as well as any I can remember. Gorgeous now but seems like it will last a long time and probably grow more complex. Wow!
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8/14/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
Cherry blossoms, honeydew, kirsch, spice, cloves, bacon fat, earth, beef blood and stone make up the complex perfume. Bright, fresh, sappy, red fruit with supple textures ends with a refreshing black cherry filled finish. This powerful, masculine wine has continued evolving and improving since it first arrived in bottle. At 12, this Cote Rotie is ready to enjoy tonight and over the next 10-15 years.
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6/4/2011 - beezer6 wrote: 95 Points
Saturday Tasting Group (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (Northbrook, IL)): Wonderful. Wine of the Day with the '04 Mouton and just edging out the 94 Quilceda Creek.
Super unique funky bacon fat driven nose. Roast red pepper, and really meaty overall. Big massive earthy long sensation aromatically.
Savory, sous bois, black flowers. Nose of the day for sure. Glorious effort.
Freshness, acidity. Wall of fruit. Just a great wine to be able to sample. As usual - thank you Alan.
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6/4/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Incredibly concentrated black fruit. Nose is dominated by black pepper with a bit of smoke. Pepper follows through nicely on the palate with dark, almost brooding fruit and a bit of bacon. This was opened, quickly decanted and served. I think this needs a few more years in bottle or a few hours in a decanter.
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5/6/2011 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Needs a bit of time to open up but after an hour it's quite spectacular, showing a beautiful perfume of ripe dark fruits, meat, violets and bacon and a combination of power and elegance in the mouth; superb and beautifully balanced although still quite young.
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3/12/2011 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Opened and aired out in the glass for an hour. Paired with rosemary lamb chops. Still dark purple color. Nose of pepper, blackberries, garrigue, raw beef. Wonderfully delineated and varied flavors on the tongue including bacon, pepper, black plum, and currant all exhibiting a tangy exuberance yet also great precision. Nice acidity and filed off tannins. Finish long and evocative of smoke and ringing black fruit. So much going on with this wine, it is incredibly interesting and hedonsitic at the same time.
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3/1/2011 - phenricsson wrote: 94 Points
Very typical Cote Roti. Big but elegant. Intense but brooding. Some barnyard, mushrooms, smoke and garrigue but still clean higher fruit. Excellent. Still improving.
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1/10/2011 - Hodby wrote: 93 Points
Dark red. Meaty, smoky, black peppered nose, with red fruits, garrigue. Medium acid, medium tannin - slightly drying after two two hours. Rich flavors of smoked meat soup and cherry, satisfying. Finishes long, with some drying tannin. Bottle #3 of six.
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1/3/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Kirsch, pepper dried fruits, bacon fat, earth, licorice and cherries make up the perfume. Full bodied, powerful and structured, with freshness along with dusty tannins, the wine finishes with a smoky cherry sensation. This needs another 2-3 years before it reaches full maturity.
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12/15/2010 - UTPK wrote:
Tasted together with six other top notch Cote Rotie and Hermitage 1999, the Jamet was clearly the best in the bunch (we didn't have Chave...). Dense nose of bacon fat, herbs and blood. Very chevy, full bodied with sweet attack, and good grip. Mature tannins. Still just in the beginning of a long life!
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11/12/2010 - Eric wrote: 95 Points
Oh wow, it would be hard to image much better aromatics for a Côte-Rôtie. Even with just a 45 minute decant this explodes from the glass with bacon, blood, orange zest, pepper, black olive and so much more. A crazy kaleidoscope. The palate is quite masculine and certainly shows more as an adolescent. The fruit is melting away and deep in the background, but the secondaries haven't really emerged. I suspect this is a good 10 years from really prime drinking, but man oh man what a wonderful baby killing. A really special wine.
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5/9/2010 - IanL wrote: 92 Points
Nice cote rotie. Fresh, balanced and elegant. Nicely rounded.
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4/19/2010 - rralls wrote:
AVV Bocado dinner.
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3/20/2010 - PhDP wrote: 95 Points
Invited by Wednesday Wine Club (Shampers, London, UK): Equilibre, finesse, jeunesse, précision, densité, longueur, complexité: très grande bouteille
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12/13/2009 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Conrad’s: Min. infused, mixed berry; tons of a’s; touch spice, min., complex, super silky, fine and excellent t’s.
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12/13/2009 - jasonh wrote:
1999 Wines - Served Blind @ Conrads: Served blind. A real stand out for the night. Still very young and fresh but the aromas and flavors are really starting to integrate. I really like the Jamet wines.
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12/13/2009 - WetRock wrote:
EWG Parties Like It's 1999 (Conrad Greens Abode): Served blind. Classic Cote Rotie nose showing minerals and pepper. Young and tannic yet very pretty. Great stuff.
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11/16/2009 - SimonG wrote:
Manu's leaving bash: Lovely nose, sweet, bacon fat. Quite a precise attack, good line, finishes with good acidity. Rounds out in the middle to a lush exuberance. Mmmm. ****1/2
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6/15/2009 - Whistler wrote:
Immensely powerful, monolithic wine. Dark and imperious, a wall of black fruits, spice and leather. Years from maturity and it will be interesting to follow its evolution. Could be a real powerhouse if everything comes into alignment. Too early to make a call for me.
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3/25/2009 - Colia wrote: 94 Points
I have a bias toward northern rhones, and this just confirms it :) Gorgeous nose of pain grille, tapenade, and tar. Flavors confirm the nose with the addition of mature fruit. Drinking wonderfully right now in terms of tannin/fruit balance. Great wine.
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2/9/2009 - phenricsson wrote: 96 Points
Intense, focused, sweet, great structure. Some raw meat and bacon flavors. Superb wine.
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6/22/2008 - danstrings wrote: 93 Points
BBQ with Julie Chris and gang -- Tightly wound but absolutely loaded with smoky meaty bacon fat and asphalt. As it opened up and warmed up more candied red fruit appeared alongside the BBQ smoky bacony Cote Rotie goodness.
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4/14/2008 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Incredibly concentrated with intense levels of very ripe, sweet, dark fruit. Meaty, beefy, big and bouncy this has a lot going on. Multiple layers of black fruit flood your palate.
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11/28/2007 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
Perfume consisting of rich, deep black and red fruits soaked in bacon fat soars from the glass. Very meaty and beefy. This wine drank well without much airtime.
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10/22/2007 - Eric wrote: 92 Points
Amazing nose. Roast beast, olive, pine, forest floor, blood, and tangerine. This is just gorgeous. The palate is less generous, rather tart, mineral, lots of tapenade, salt and blood. Lots of acidity. Gamey, crunchy, bloody. A real baby. This needs another 5-7 to even begin to unwind. Lots of upward potential but just too wound up for now.
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10/11/2007 - CLDWLL wrote:
A truly disappointing bottle. Have had this wine many times and have always loved it. Tonight its normally captivating nose was masked by strong green olive odors. The wine tasted better than it smelled, but I put it aside preferring to sip the 2000 Pegau and Beaucastel also at the dinner. I
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5/16/2007 - win wrote: 91 Points
Tasted at large dinner. Minimal notes. Some bacon fat. 90-92
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4/21/2007 - CLDWLL wrote: 94 Points
This is my 3rd time tasting this wine and it never fails to excite me. Upon opening, there is some barnyard funk. It settles down to offer up a truly exhilerating nose. Black fruit, red fruit, roasted meat, animal fur, graphite and even a floral element. You can keep your nose in the glass forever. Lovely sweet attack. A little tight on the palate on this night. Great structure to keep this thing going for years to come. It's been hard to keep my hands off this wine. Sad to see I'm down to just one more bottle.
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12/14/2006 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
A perfume redolent of juicy ripe fruit dripping in bacon fat, a sexy, meaty mouthfeel and long finish combined to make a great wine.
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5/18/2006 - win wrote: 92 Points
Northern Rhone OL. Wonderful deep red color that starts with scents of red cherries and black currant. Tasted a bit dusty, with some green vegetative qualities, with integrated very fine tannins. I do not think this wine was ready—age a few more years.
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4/7/2006 - beachbum wrote: 94 Points
This is a great bottle of wine (best Jamet I have had) that I think I caught at a bit ofan ackward stage, maybe without enough air. The raw materials are huge, the mouthfeel is liquid velvet and so deep. The bacon fat nose was very appealing, my complaint tonight was the balance. On first sip the wine initially showed some maturity and then the red and black crashed down like a fruit bomb and squashed the elegance. Tannisn were still evident. Long finsh. This wine needs at least 5 years or more in my book, but the pure glycerin mouthfeel reminds me of a LaLa, something I have not seen in Jamet in other vintages. My score is probably consevative.
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4/4/2006 - Alpine wrote: 95 Points
Opened this the night after the 98 just to see.....Outstanding concentration, purity of fruit on the palate....much more elegant than the 98 which seemed to be all about power right now....the 99 in contrast had more earth tones and bacon with a suttle pepper influence that gave the wine lift and palate saturation....but this wine is not heavy at all and would be great with food. I think that in 5 years the development in the bottle will be amazing.
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2/2/2006 - 1800kidney wrote: 90 Points
Le Cinq (Hotel George V): Served at cellar temperature and somewhat subdued. Decanted, but still was shy in the glass. I have every reason to expect this to blossom but patience is essential. Lovely balance and finish but sleepy at this point..more time is needed
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1/19/2006 - BordeauxNut wrote:
For the second consecutive flight -- the best nose goes to Jamet over the Chaves. Very similar to the 1998 with smoky bacon and flowers -- but this is less reductive and adds a very interesting green coffee note that I really enjoy. Worth the price of admission for the nose alone -- it's a great mouthful of wine too. I can't imagine someone not loving this wine.
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1/9/2006 - Russell Faulkner wrote: 89 Points
Dark blue/purple, quite modern, not showing as well as previous bottles, a bit too sweet/overpowering, oak a bit raw.
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1/7/2006 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 89 Points
North Rhône Offline (Rotisserie Jules, South Kensington): A very deep, murky mauve. Very elegant, fragrant nose: sweet black fruit with some viognier apparently evident. Light and fragrant on the palate. Lots of tannic structure. Very even throughout. very Good Indeed.
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1/6/2006 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Dark purple hue. Nose refreshing and open, full of mountain flowers and open air barbeque. The palate is tight, but one can already taste the components of great energy in the mix: lots of bacon, pepper, blackberry, minerals, crushed rock, glycerin, and licorice. There is an edgy tingling to the texture which imparts liveliness and some real excitement. Lengthy, fun finish. Wow, with a few years this is going to be a stunner!
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12/29/2005 - Ben Andersen wrote:
JAMET Cote-Rotie vertical 1996-2000 - plus a few Champagnes: After trying the '95 - '98 vintages of Jamet and noticing a general similarity (see TNs), I sat staring down the '99, which was almost black in the glass, with deep, brooding aromas of black fruits, prunes, espresso and cigar. As you drink this wine you can almost see it in 3-D: layers of fruit, earthy, secondary elements, and the tannic support at its core. Substantial structure is burried beneath all the stuffing. Very proportional / balanced. This is a sensational wine, to be sure, and, needless to say, the group was unanimously blown away by the '99. Interestingly, four out of the six of us had initially tasted the '99 together at the winery in March of 2001, and despite the fact that all of us own some, none of us had had it since. Although it drinks sinfully well now, we all agreed that this will be phenomenal in five+ years. I think it will be screaming around 2012-2015, when the inevitable tertiary components kick it into a higher gear, and it will probably live past 2020 in a decent cellar. WOW. One of the best wines I've had this year - it snuck in under the wire on 12/29! Also, a contender for best under $50 retail wine I've ever had ($46.79, after discount). I wish I owned cases of this. Note: we opened a second bottle due to one member of the group arriving late to the tasting (one of the hazards of bringing a back up - they always seem to get drunk, don't they?!).
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12/10/2005 - Les Alpilles wrote: 93 Points
Wow...my first one in probably 2 years, just wanted to check in. Has lost much of the baby fat and probably as shut down as it will ever be but there's so much raw material there it's a joy to drink now. Tons of minerals and iron on the nose and palate. Can only be Cote Rotie and only Jamet. Was worried about the vintage being too fruit forward, but this wine has such balance that will be profound. Kept on thinking back to high school science - kinetic energy, like a fully wound spring that is waiting to explode. Can drink and enjoy now, or give it another 1.5-2 years to be in the zone.
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11/25/2004 - Alpine wrote: 92 Points
Drank with Thanksgiving dinner so the only things I remember is that it had a very good core of fruit.
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4/1/2004 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
Bordeaux "en Primeur" Tasting and Rhone side visit; 3/29/2004-4/2/2004 (France): Dinner in the Rhone. Concentrated fruit with massive spice explosion on the nose. Dark fruit with incredible extraction from start to finish. Wine was tight for a few hours, but came out of its shell with lots of power. Enormous long finish, I'd give this at least 5 years, probably 10+ years to reach its zenith.
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1/24/2004 - DCornutt wrote: 97 Points
This wine is very different than the 98. It is really almost dominated by the sweet fruit but it is so sexy! The attack is smooth and voluptous. The nose has that briary sweet fruit that I love in a real Cote Rotie. No detectable oak. The palate is a little unfocused and fruit driven but who cares when you get surrounded by all that perfect fruit. The underbrush comes through on the finish. The finish is LONG.
This salvages a bad wine weekend!
This wine is so nice and worth every penny. Just glad I don't have to pay $110 to get one now. A+ Cote Rotie in the most voluptuous sense.
BTW, I love this young Cote Rotie. (I like older one's too.) No baby killer here. This is really nice for what it is.
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10/3/2003 - OneLastSyrah wrote:
Christine's Going Away Party: This wine was rather tight and not giving up much. Mostly olives and a roasted quality on the nose. Hints of good black fruit lurk underneath the closed body of the wine on the palate. Needs time.
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