2016 Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet (Hervé Souhaut) St. Joseph Les Cessieux

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 92 points

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  1/8/2021 - decaturwinedude wrote: 85 Points

  I'm still waiting to really understand these Souhaut wines. It's been several years and numerous bottles and I'm still looking for anything remarkable. There's no "there" there. This tastes like a middle of the road gamay that shows high-toned up front acidity and really pedestrian red fruit. So placid and simple. Some smoked meat notes come on after hours in the decanter, but you really have to work to find anything special here. It's just so simple in so many ways. Tart, lean, acidic. Am I drinking them too early? Perhaps. Maybe this wine just needs 10 years and I am wasting bottles now. I don't know and not sure I care to find out. I'm cashing out.

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  5/7/2019 - jnewman77 wrote:

  First bottle from Souhaut for me. Won't say I was sold, but I can see potential. The nose had a little bit of funk, but not much. Underlying were super floral notes of violet and lavender, tons of dark brambly fruit, a hint of blood. The palate was good, but seemed not quite fully come together; just didn't flow and felt slightly piecemeal; it was definitely better with food and I think it is probably just 3-4 years too early. Will hold and hope that the low sulphur approach doesn't let them go bad in the meantime...

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  7/22/2018 - Tubulus wrote: 92 Points

  My first souhaut. Definitely has some of the savory notes you would expect from northern Rhone but also very bright and lifted and fresh, light bodied but still manages to have nice concentration . The (semi) carbonic crunchiness is definitely evident, stylistically a bit like a cru beaujolais. I'm sure it will age just fine but it doesn't need it, and I'm not really sure it will benefit.

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  6/1/2018 - collin wrote:

  Obviously young, but I enjoyed this. The impressions is of low bass notes- tones of grilled meat and olives (but not overt), not much fruit; a bit of a top note of pepper. Very much mid weight on the palate and extremely well balanced with acidity on the high-ish side (as I like it). If this weren't Northern Rhone, I'd say give it 3-5 years. That may be the right answer, but I'd err on the long side- if not much longer.

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