2009 M. Chapoutier St. Joseph Les Granits

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  5/12/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I have enjoyed drinking this wine over the course of the past 6 years and finally popped my last bottle. It is in a sweet spot right now. Incredible nose that you can smell the second you pop the cork. A savory wine with roasted meats and wild game with a signature Syrah inkiness. Integrated but firm tannin on the backend. Delicious.

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  4/1/2022 - shafer1994 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First impression : reluctant wine. Dark color, nose dominated by dark raspberry and spices, but restrained. Very concentrated wine. Long finish with remarkable tannins which indicate many more years.

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  11/7/2021 - Willi Vinotti Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This wine now confirmed the potential it showed in previous bottles. It was always quite closed until now, but opened up beautifully last night. After opening and decant, it still these horse dunk notes in the nose. But after about another hour, this disappeared and gave way to a charming wine, the nose dominated by cherry and dark berry notes, and a palate with fully resolved tannins and wonderful notes of cloves and black currant. Great wine with plenty of years ahead.

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  10/22/2021 - whits Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted one hour as it blossomed in the glass with a waft of meat juice, pepper and mashed lackberries, full bodied, dark and dry, fills the mouth with wonderful flavors of chocolate, dried plum, mineral and black cherry, supple, velvety and long, love where this is at now, but with upside to hold longer

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  6/25/2021 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Similar to when I last wrote a tasting note on this wine. Great value N Rhone. Fully mature and contains all of the N Rhone goodness in the glass, including some roasted wild game funk. A touch stewed on the finish suggesting this might not last too much longer in the cellar. Drink up in the next 3 years. Pop and poured with no decant.

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