2017 Domaine Vincent Paris Crozes-Hermitage Selection

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  2/20/2024 - thebonnydooner wrote: 90 Points

  Excellent, probably better than the prior bottle. Lovely juicy smokey balance with similar notes to prior bottle

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  11/2/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  So glad I had purchased a case of this! So delish. Paris delivers time and time again.
  
  This bottle had been resting upright for at least 4 months. Most Paris bottles have that very fine sediment of unfiltered juice and remain cloudy for quite a while if jostled. This one was definitely clear and ready.
  
  Upon decant, into a slender decanter so as to not impart too much oxygen. I prefer it that way as some of these wines take on that acetyl with too much air. Huge wafts of meats and berry came rushing up to my nose. These initial aromas I loved. After the first pour from decant into crystal the meats became more pronounced with olallieberry and blood.
  There was also a smell of Christmas in there. Reminded me of cranberry jelly in the crisp of a cold evening. The yeast of crumble cakes and funky tart bucket berry with rhubarb, green and soaked dry grasses jostled my brain.
  
  Palate was soft yet crunchy with sweet tart like juice with bitter, black berry, blood and cured meats with a cranberry-raspberry reduction, finished with cakes, yeast and dryness of an herb desert.
  
  With pan seared lamb t-bone, it became a perfect paired juice. As more and more mouthfuls complimented the dish, cola started to appear, and reminded me of my little league baseball days after practice when the coach of the Roadrunners treated all of us to a cooler full of iced Pepsi cans. There was even what seemed to be fizz among the natural tannins as my full mouth swished the black.
  
  This guy was in a perfect state. Such quality has potential to evolve in a very delicious way, where the fruit may give way to leathers, meats and more blood. If stored in 60 degrees cellar I would say this 2017 would still be very enjoyable at 2030. Time will tell. I know that my bottles will not be around by then as I will drink this case at a cadence of at least one every six months unless I cannot find some other bottle to quell my craving for this bloody example of Syrah.
  
  Syrah is such an excellent grape: Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche crossing of about two-thousand years ago. Some creative vigneron aught to raise up the two in gore and offer a blend in homage to Syrah’s parents.
  
  As I drink more of this, I’m speaking to the juice. It tells me that at least one more year to five more years remain before it really comes into its own. It tells me that the baby fat needs to be shed, as good as that fat is, it’s still a youngster and will most definitely get better.

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  10/22/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  Meats and meats! With some tart berry, but the core was cured meats, steak, crushed rocks, delish Syrah berry, very dry. Initially had yeast and bread smells, but that blew off and left a perfect medium bodied Syrah of choice love for the lamb.
  
  Ye gods, I could live in this nose forever!
  The meats!
  The blood!
  Paris has a knack for Syrah! Love you Vincent!
  Thanks for this!
  
  Could this get better? Maybe. But so good now.

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  2/5/2023 - MarcEBeaudoin wrote:

  Popped and poured; last of this vintage. Much more fruit at the front end than expected. Grapey, dark berries. Not as 'Northern Rhone' as I expected, looking for gamey, meaty notes. My wife didn't like it at all. I enjoyed it, but with I had decanted or opened a bit earlier. Was decent with a braised short rib pasta, but again not what I was looking to find.

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  7/16/2022 - Baudelaire Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Really good all around.

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