2003 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Crozes-Hermitage Domaine Raymond Roure

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 88.4 points

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  3/17/2016 - iamandyc wrote: 88 Points

  Tasty but not memorable wine. Lush with dark chocolate covered cherries. "plus" body without much tannin or acids showing. A touch flabby but enjoyable.

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  2/6/2016 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  Saturday Blind Syrah (Home): Not decanted. Tasted blind in a lineup of Syrah/Shiraz. Definite signs of bricking around the edge, but I probably would never have guessed this was a Crozes. Showing herbaceous notes, garrigue. Cedar on the nose. Ok acidity on the palate, but definitely a little flabby. Nevertheless, still seemed old-world in style.
  
  Update: based on the other tasting notes, it sounds like this was a mess a little while ago. While it was underwhelming, it certainly didn't show like the other notes describe. Iirc, this had the highest alcohol in the group.

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  12/18/2010 - ccn wrote: 83 Points

  When I read David Strange's tasting note I had a good laugh but thought he was just having a bit of fun. I'm sorry to report that his TN is spot on. This wine is everything I hate about the worst offenders of New World Syrah in an old world package. It smells and tastes like alcoholic chocolate. My definition of hell would be a world in which this was the only wine.

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  10/19/2010 - David Strange Does not like this wine:

  The label claims 14.5% alcohol but one hesitant sniff shows that to be perfidious mendacity, or total bollocks as the lower ranks adroitly put it. This is an inordinately booze suffused monster of screamingly gargantuan proportions. I’m mortified by its ginormous booze level which is, I fear, only the beginning of what will be a traumatic experience for a lover of refined beauty. I’m surprised I can smell anything beyond the fearsome alcoholic burn it blasts up my nose but there is also repulsively stewed, jam-themed fruit which is massively monolithic in the most one-dimensional sense I can articulate. This is a huge, simple, painful confection to smell and radically revolts my sensibilities. Since I was laughably deluded enough to buy it I may as well cut myself off a slice and taste the rebarbative beast. Oh wow, the palate is flabbergasting in its array of noxious, noisome flavours. There is so much alcohol and the fruit is so vastly over-ripe that it has the texture of heavy syrup. This thick, heavy, distinctly sweet consistency is the antithesis of all one wants in a wine to be drank, savoured and enjoyed; you have to fight, plod and struggle your way though each little taste. Little tastes are all I want. No, no tastes are all I want, but I’ll finish off the note first. The fruit is pondorous and jammy with no freshness or vibrancy. There also seems to be a unsavoury acrid bitterness to the tannins which suggests that sun-burnt grapes made it into the fermentation vats. There is a definite dearth of acidity too – ‘unbalanced’ is far too polite an understatement to begin to describe how it tastes. Drinking it is just a detestable, wearisome chore that is so far removed from having even a single redeeming feature that even the slightly lacklustre wines of Jaboulet’s new owners seem an improvement. Mollydooker Shiraz was not this bad.

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  12/11/2009 - pjaines wrote:

  Holy moly !!! This is one serious wine. Deep, dark purple colour. The nose has an amazingly strong whack (and it is a whack) of iron and blood at first. First taste is very primary, very intense plums and sweet fruit and then it hits the back of the palate and transforms into a complex mixture of earth, mushrooms, strawberry. Very thick texture in the mouth and quite sweet but time in the decanter brings out more classic Hermitage notes of gritty herbs and meat. Long finish. Young as a pup - this will keep for a hell of a long time, although the relative lack of tannins could possibly hint towards drinking it while the fruit is still rich. Excellent. £21 in England from The Wine Society.

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