2000 Domaine de la Janasse Côtes du Rhône Les Garrigues

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88 points

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  8/31/2013 - Neurowine1 wrote: flawed

  I took a very high level French wine course (designed for aspiring sommeliers) one year. It was a bit over my head at parts but interesting. One of the instructors (a very pretentious French guy) explained that there were actually about 9 different ways a wine could be corked and even offered to set up a tasting of corked wine so the learners would know the nuances of corked wine. I declined the invite to the tasting but it got me thinking. Indeed, not all corked wine tastes corked in the same way. Whatever the case may be, this wine was corked in the absolute worse way imaginable. There was an underlying foul toxicity to the wine in the mouth, beyond the obvious cork on the nose, that made me wonder if it was actually poisonous. I only had a sip and I am still standing with intact neuromuscular function. Too bad for this wine. I have found some surprises in 10+ year old CdRs but this was not a welcome one.

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  11/2/2012 - Sundbyberg wrote: 87 Points

  This wine is in good shape.
  It's not big but it is quite nice, surprisingly fruity or it is actually not fruit, rather berries.
  Slightly tannic. Give it 30 minutes of air for the nose to show.
  If you like syrah wines you will probably appreciate it more than I do and maybe rate it 1-3 pts higher. (I know, someone wrote 100% grenache, but to me it tastes syrah.)
  Quite a bargain at 20 euro.
  I would drink it now, even if it is still blue, not brown.

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  2/18/2011 - cannym wrote: 89 Points

  Still deep ruby, fading to dark mahogany. Lovely nose, something floral, maybe violets then a whiff of the garrigue. Finally the tannins have mellowed! Now a lovely smooth wine. Tons of dark fruits, blackberry and cherry somehow combined. Very good length, decent acidity. Also smokiness, leather and dark meats. At last this has come good. Unfortunately my last bottle!

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  3/18/2006 - Ben Andersen wrote:

  $19.50 retail, after discount. This is starting to shed some of its fruit. While it used to show more lush black cherry / raspberry fruit, that is fading and some earth is coming into the picture. It seems like a slightly more serious wine now, though our group tonight preferred the '98 Fortia Chateauneuf (see TN), which cost only $4.50 more on release. Remembering how well the '95 Janasse CdR-V Garrigues showed after a few years in the cellar, I look forward to checking back in on my remaining '00s over the next few years...

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  11/5/2004 - Ben Andersen wrote:

  $19.50 retail, after discount. I've always liked this offering from Janasse - although the price has doubled from the '95 to the '01. IMO, the Garrigues bottling really benefits from a year or two in the cellar. Tonight the 2000 showed bright raspberry / black cherry fruit; a ripe, pure expression of Grenache (I beleive this is 100% Grenache - or at least it was in past vintages). One to enjoy over the next couple years, I'd say. Very nice.

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