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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 27 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gquigs on 2/24/2024 & rated 91 points: Red fruit, spice and forest floor on the nose. Raspberry, liquor, white pepper on the palate. Tasty. (304 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 12/3/2023 & rated 90 points: Warm spices, kirsch, coffee, some stewed black fruit, strawberries. Some chalkiness/minerality? Medium acidity, medium+ finish
Alcohol (16%!!) showing a bit, still quite primary (665 views) | | | Tasted by corkscrews on 11/20/2023 & rated 90 points: A nose of some black cherry and spice, ruby in color. A medium bodied red, with raspberry, cherry, some white pepper and spice, easy drinking. www.winelx.com (561 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 11/19/2023 & rated 91 points: Fresh bacon, just hints of licorice, varied red and dark berries, smoke and minor leathery notes. Still a predominantly primary palate, good balance with soft tannin, but without adding much to the complexity. 3 consistent bottles. (715 views) | | | Tasted by Erik Snel on 2/27/2023 & rated 91 points: Rustic, warm fruity, spicy, low on wood. Just power, balance and harmony. A bit different blend, including the rare and peppery Vaccarese grape. Great and comforting red!
🛠14%Alc 75%GR(in tank) Others aged in 1yr old barrels: 4%MV/15%SR/3%CNS/2%Vaccarese/1%Muscardin
🛒Producer, 25€ (876 views) | | | Tasted by alamoave on 5/9/2022 & rated 91 points: This is the Day 3 rating when this wine shone much better than Day 1 when it was quite simplistic and enjoyable but uninteresting. Hold or looong decant. (1355 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 11/27/2021 & rated 90 points: Tasting evening with Bas en Lennart (Zeist): [Tasted blind] not identified as CdP. Almost purple in color and on the nose cranberry, strawberry, gingerbread and on the palate bay leaf, red and black fruit. Soft but present tannins. Long finish (1644 views) | | | Tasted by klcai on 11/18/2021: very nice VFM (1453 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 10/17/2021 & rated 91 points: Lovely nose with sweet spices, licorice, kirsch, slate, red and blue fruit. Almost a bit light after the initial sniff so to say (I'm not sure if there is anything comparable to "mid-palate" for the nose). Not bold, elegant. Comparable on the palate, a bit of heat at the end. Very fine tannins, medium acidity, long finish (1683 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 7/10/2021 & rated 93 points: Fresh meat, raspberry, rhubarb, a whiff of pepper, a bit of spice and a fine layer of perfume. Fruity palate with quite some power. Best bottle of this I've had so far. (1876 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 12/31/2020 & rated 90 points: Deep purple, first two bottles of a case to celebrate a better 2021 on New Years Eve. Deep purple with lively red fruit on the nose (red cherries, raspberries, cassis and kirsch) with herbs and licorice. Same in the mouth but with a bit more black fruit (blackberries and black cherries), garrigue herbs and hints of bay leaf. Medium to long finish. All in all very nice and curious to see how the other bottles will develop (1677 views) | | | Tasted by Opusone99 on 7/10/2020 & rated 92 points: Délicieux! (1962 views) | | | Tasted by G_H on 5/31/2020 & rated 90 points: Fully open, approachable and ready to go. Very fruit driven with bright red cherries and some herbs, fun and easy, but very well made! (1831 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 12/22/2019 & rated 87 points: A rather dark red type of fruit and some unpleasant green notes as well as bitterness on the palate. This bottle had something unripe to it. A considerably worse experience than the last bottle I popped. Didn‘t decant and probably none needed. (2358 views) | | | Tasted by Fuzball on 11/30/2019 & rated 91 points: This wine was soft and smooth directly out of the bottle and became a gem after about 30 min or so. Enjoyed it with ribs and lamb chops. Will get more of this one. (1831 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 11/23/2019 & rated 92 points: Medium/full-bodied, forward, ripe, lush, fresh, sweet and juicy, the red cherries, thyme and herb nuances taste and feel great. You can drink this as soon as it hits the shelf while waiting for its bigger stablemates to evolve and mature. (3500 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 7/17/2019 & rated 93 points: Medium+ intensity nose. Dark type of fruit with figs and bramble berries, black tea and herbal aromatics, some greenish notes there too (green pepper). Actually this is reminding me a lot of the 2016. A fresh and surprisingly round palate and even without a decant quite accessible. Solid structure and quite some power there. Finish is quite short, however, and complexity is not one of the strong suits. A decent entry level CDP. (1761 views) | | | Tasted by Philippe_C on 1/26/2019 & rated 93 points: Powerfull nose of black licorice, black fruit, hint of salinity... Loads of super silky tannins, ripe black cherries, nice salinity, delicious balanced freshness (1968 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Clos Saint Jean Producer website - Read more about Clos Saint Jean
U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)
The Domaine was founded around 1900 by Edmond Tacussel. However, in 1910 "Clos Saint Jean" was actually created with the registering of the brand. The vineyard has expanded through the generations - in 1920 by Edmonds’ son, Leopold Tacussel, in 1930 by Edmond’s son-in-law Camille Maurel and in 1957 by his grandson Guy Maurel. When Guy passed away in 1982, his wife Jocelyne Maurel who gave up her teaching position, together with their two sons, Vincent and Pascal (great grandsons of Edmond), took over the management of the family domaine with some of the best situated vines in all of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, all in the area of La Crau. Jocelyne Maurel died in November 2003. In 2002, Philippe Cambie had been hired as consulting oenologist/viticulturist, and he is (as is well-known to readers of Robert Parker’s writings), one of the greatest oenologists of Chateauneuf. Up until early September, the year 2002 was one of the most promising vintages in recent times, but a disastrous flood ruined the vintage. The Maurels sold off the entire crop to negociants and made no wine. In 2003, the brothers and Mr. Cambie were ready and nailed down the 2003 vintage to perfection. What they did was a little counter-intuitive (following the calamity of 2002) and took enormous courage — they waited, and waited, to pick. Even though 2003 was a hot year, with high sugars early on, they did not succumb to the temptation to pick the crop before it might rain, and instead held off. They started picking in late September, when virtually everyone else had finished. The wines all display supreme physiological and phenolic ripeness, without notes of surmaturity or over-ripeness. They are all deeply colored, rich and profound, even at an early stage.Red Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Southern Rhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Southern Rhone Valley
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation - Read more about Chateauneuf du Pape
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Vineyards on weinlagen-info
"As I have written many times in the past, the sweet spot for drinking Châteauneuf du Papes is usually the first 5-6 years after the vintage. Then they seem to go through an adolescent, awkward, and sometimes dormant stage, only to re-emerge around year 10-12, where the majority of wines are often fully mature. The best of them will continue to hold on to life (but rarely improving) beyond 15-20 years. It is only the exceptional Châteauneuf du Papes that will evolve for 20-25+ years, and those are indeed a rarity. However, things may be improving dramatically in terms of the longevity of Châteauneuf du Pape, although Grenache-dominated wines, the vast majority of wines produced in the appellation, are wines that do not have the polyphenol (extract and tannin) content of top Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, or Syrah-based wines. Nevertheless, the younger generation in Châteauneuf du Pape has taken seriously the farming in the vineyards. There are more organic and biodynamically run vineyards here than in any other appellation of France. The yields, which were already low, are even lower today (20-35 hectoliters per hectare), and of course, the proliferation of top luxury and/or old-vine cuvées gives a significant boost to the number of wines that will evolve past 25 or 30 years. The advantage of these wines is their broad window of drinkability." - Robert Parker
Vintage Chart 1978 to Today
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