1/27/2024 - lhpontes Likes this wine:

Dependable as always, nice wood and spice.

9/11/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

On a warm summer evening such as this, a bottle of Charvin feels perfect, and even more so with the 2017 before me with its intensely elegant nose of raspberries, garrigue and citrus.

Its palate has spunk, length, lots of stars and very interesting flavors of fruit and heated hill shrubs. Its length makes this a joyous song in my mouth. Absence of oak, its rarity, heritage, and purity make this bottle ever more perfect for Monday sunset with the crickets.

I’m somewhat of a strange wine lover as I do not particularly like Grenache, but here, I do.

This cuvee has a delicious crunch, probably from its whole cluster fermentation in concrete. So endearing is this crunch that I’m tempted to create a new word for it: Crunch-Garrigue. The presence of citrus, raspberry and crunch of herbal tars slowly taint my mouth and build with every sip rendering it more crunchy with garrigue. Love this! Excellent! Celebrate on 9-11! I drink to the memory celebrating life as the moments of mortality bring profundity of now.

A case of this to enjoy for years to come! It will assuredly get better.

The next day, 29 hours later from undecanted bottle, poured the last glass:
Gorgeous nose with pronounced cola and berries. Could live in this nose. Flowers, perfume.
Palate of concentrated flowers with crunch of garrigue. It’s concentrated potpourri. Energy galore! It spanks my palate. It explodes in my mouth. It's rich and makes me wow as to its density and levity. Great wine.

As fresh as this is from overnight in bottle with about 6oz left, this is a cellar keeper. It will last for a decade more +.
Excellent wine. Well made.
I keep revisiting the nose in my Riedel Burgundy glass: Holy fresh flowers aromas with garrigue. Just love it!

2/3/2023 - peeks13 wrote:

3 hour decant and drank over 3 more but it still stayed in vanilla oak-town until the last glass. Make of that what you will. I think the last glass evolved more to the cabernet experience I had hoped for but by then I had lost interest. I could buy another bottle and experiment with the cellaring or ageing, but I won't.

9/26/2020 - Mdb1982 Likes this wine:

Jayson Cabernet Sauvignon reveals its classic expression with deep, elegant black fruit aromas, and hints of plum, licorice, vanilla, fresh cream and the suggestion of forest floor. A juicy entry leads into a dense mid-palate; mocha, dusty chalk, and attractive herbal hints round out the rich flavors. Fine tannins support the fruit character for a complex, balanced wine that pairs well with food.

3/2/2020 - RDHudak wrote:

Goosebump good. plenty of juicy fruit, with a very well balanced structure and just enough tannin to firm up the fruit. Absolutely singing! That said, I completely disagree with Peeks13, as several tried it blind and loved it.

3/2/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Suckling's Great Wines of Italy (Loews Hotel - Chicago IL): Walk around tasting. Clearly modern styled, but so many great things are going on here. Old vine concentration with ripe black and red cherry, sweet and savory spice with floral character. There is wonderfully bright texture coming from great acidity and soft, elegant tannins. Great now with so much upside.

12/30/2017 - Cancan12 Likes this wine:

Full bodied. Dark berry, plum and hint of oak aroma. Cherry, plum and oak flavor. Very smooth and rich, with a nice finish. Excellent value.

9/15/2012 - toddmk wrote:

Absolutely delicious. Outstanding nose. Great core of dark fruit with nice earthy complexity. For $20 this is an amazing value. Unfortunately, I only had one bottle.