1990 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert

Community Tasting Notes (171) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  12/5/2023 - townjbc Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Absolutely lovely wine. Have I ever tasted a better wine from the Rhone valley? I don’t think so. From the entrancing bouquet to the delicious and complex flavours and great finish, this is a class wine that is a privilege to drink.

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  11/23/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 94 Points

  This pours light ruby in the glass with no evident bricking. Impressive color considering the age, but makes sense given the pristine bottle, fill level, and cork. The nose begins a tad closed dominated by black fruit and a touch to eucalyptus. Over the course of an hour it really kicks things into high gear showing dried blueberry, red currant, red plum, light roast coffee, scorched earth, smoked meat, mint, hot rocks, thyme blossom, and toasted mustard seed. The palate is lovely showing bright light and blueberry fruit with a nicely rounded mouthfeel. Tannin is medium minus and velvety with medium plus acid. The finish nicely replays much of the nose in very harmonious fashion. Overall this is just gorgeous, clearly far better than the 1990 La Chapelle, and simply a great wine. A blind taster of this wine pegged it as a 2002 - 2007 red burgundy from a good producer. A testament to the low extract, elegant style and graceful aging curve on evidence here.

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  8/14/2023 - humagne wrote: 98 Points

  Smoked bacon, spices leather, earth, cherry.. Stunning presence and length on the palate, well balanced. Almost perfect bottle.

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  5/20/2023 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Used a Durand but probably would have been fine with a corkscrew as the cork was clean with a great seal and minimal seepage. Dark blood with some bricking up around the edge of a decent clear rim. Nose of smoked meat, iron and blood - just lovely smokey and very forward. Fruit still very evident - cooked blackberry and apple. Super refreshing zingy acidity with a nice long finish and barely perceptible soft fine tannin. My last bottle of 12 - suggest drink up in the next 5 years.

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  3/6/2023 - Ravi Deshpande Likes this wine: 92 Points

  My last bottle of a case bought in 1991 or so - one of the first cellared wines in my collection. Still a rich and beautiful wine, lots of black fruit, no beef broth or iron flavours as other vintages have shown. There is a persistent barnyard nose that was not unpleasant. Decant 45 minutes for best results.

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