2019 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  4/28/2024 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The 2019 Gonon St. Joseph was more open than than I remembered it to be. It has the typical Gonon signature of olives, dark cherry, smokey meat, green herbs, some noticable tannins still. Needs a bit more time, but its getting there!

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  4/27/2024 - ylkim30 wrote:

  Boozy Brunch (Foreign Cinema & Noe Valley Wine & Spirits): This seems quite tightly clenched at the moment. On the nose, there is dense, ripe, fruit aromas and floral notes. Perhaps a touch lactic. The palate is equally dark-fruited and quite stony, with racy acidity and a velvety tannins on the finish, leaving a hint of astringency on the palate. But, this seems very closed and unforgiving right now, though there is a lot of stuffing. I would give this 5-10 years in the cellar to unwind, but there is a lot of potential.

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  4/6/2024 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My first Gonon from St. Joe
  
  First impression is the quality of fruit and balanced palate. A well captured sense of place in the wine making processes and farming. It's easy to see how this has a cult following. I have some 14's inbound so it will be nice to see what these wines do with relative age on them.
  
  Plenty of upside laying these down but no harm pulling one now.
  
  94+

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  2/6/2024 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opened but did not decant. Was generally accessible in 20 min but will decant next time, as this is still tightly wound overall. Murky purple color with a ruby hue. Floral nose brings spicy anise, blueberry compote, purple lavender, clove cigarettes, and diesel petrol. The palate is medium, compact, and hard, bringing a core of blackberries, blueberries, and chocolate raspberries mixed with wild game and crushed rock. The finish is hard and tannic, so best with food. This is refined and polished yet still primary and hard and will be best 2026-2036. Technical score: 93. Enjoyment score: 93.

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  12/30/2023 - benoitguisti Likes this wine: 98 Points

  St Jo Pierre Gonon 2019 Rouge has a clear, deep purple color appearance.
  
  After 3 hours you get a dark olives, tobacco, dark cherry baked in the clafoutis cake.
  
  It is a full bodied wine yet elegant with a velvety tannic structure. Violet flowers, black olives, blackcurrant, clafoutis cherry and tobacco flavours.

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