2020 Emmanuel Darnaud Crozes-Hermitage Les Trois Chênes

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  12/23/2023 - seekingbalance Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Maybe 92
  
  Consumed young (to try). Decanted. Tasted immediately and over hours.
  
  Purple, yet slightly translucent, very clean. Looks like great extraction. Solid legs.
  
  Nose: bright. slightly hot. Blackberry jam, cassis, garrigue, maybe some floral (roses) and dirty notes that i can't specify (at least yet, its very early).
  
  Palate: mimics nose overall. Both acid and tannin are present, but in no way objectionable. Tannins are mature (not green) and fairly fine. Acid gives great freshness and balance, in no way sour. Finish is medium to long.
  
  Overall fairly classic Syrah.
  
  As this opens, both nose and palate are expanding. I am also sensing more of the earth, tar, and definitely tobacco. @billy_bricks seems to get this wine right.
  
  I suspect this can evolve for MANY years, if it is stored properly.
  
  more to come over the next hour(s).
  
  Ok, now 45 minutes in, the tobacco/(slight) pepper, ect is becoming much more pronounced. Some tastes and smells i cannot pinpoint, but its rich and good.
  
  Overall, somewhat decadent, yet elegant, okld0world wine with some new world approach-ability. Yep, a Rhone, albeit from up north in Hermitage :-)

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  7/22/2023 - billy_bricks Likes this wine: 93 Points

  WOW! So much more than I expected from a lesser known Rhone producer. I didn't realize how much I would like Crozes-Hermitages. We poured this into the decanter, immediately had a glass, then had another glass about an hour later.
  
  On the nose, we were immediately greeted with wet clay, truffles, cherries, leather, and tobacco, maybe even rust (but it was pleasant I swear). The more we smelled the wine, the more the wine gave us! As the wine evolved, it opened up to show thyme and rosemary, then chocolate, then roses. There was forever an almost barnyard-y funkiness to it that was so interesting to smell alongside those crushed rose notes.
  
  Upon tasting the wine, my palate was filled with plums and cherries, with a hint of vanilla, as well as some cured meat notes. The distinct flavor of the nose showed up here too, with notes of truffles and old leather. After some time in the decanter, the wine expressed all the above, but the cherry notes became darker, the wine seemed all at once historic, reminding me of a dusty old library filled with old hardback copies of greek mythology...I was sure the Hobbit would be there somewhere as well...
  
  This wine was excellent, it really brought up old memories, with a nose that almost smelled like my grandpa's old tractor that we used to work around his property with. IT smelled wise, like it had already lived more lives than I have.

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  3/25/2023 - Julkunen Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Nosen: lite ek, hörlig mörk frukt
  Smak: m syra, m strävhet, runt och bra balans. Mörkbärig smak
  Dracks på Tjörn

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