April 23, 2024 - Exploring Northern Rhone Syrah (Paris): On the nose pepper, coffee, toasty note, cassis, meat. Drinking well, rather ripe fruits, cassis, and soft spices, a meaty and gamey note as well. In a good place now, going tertiary now so depends on your taste. Aromatics are on the ripe side without going over the edge like so many other 2003s.
June 9, 2023 - Tasted blind with friends in the Cote Rotie vineyards. Drinking easy, good balance, warm vintage but to me no real signs of it. Maybe better 5 or 10 years ago.
January 7, 2023 - Wine Night at TCC (Timuquana Country Club): This was a bit different than I expected. Initially all acid and a bit of an intense note but then it starts to settle and you get that great gamey character and really the vibrancy and just beautiful.
October 8, 2022 - Light in color, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, elegant and earthy with a peppery, black raspberry, and red plum profile, close to full-developed, the finish is all about the red cherry and plum profile. Drink from 2022-2029
April 22, 2021 - Cote Rotie Double Blind (Chicago): The fruit is very ripe on the nose with incense and minty herbs. The palate is also ripe and glossy. Spice and woodsy notes. Odd showing. Others thought the wine suffered from VA. 86-88 point showing.
April 22, 2021 - Double Blind Côte-Rôtie Tasting (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Double blind in Côte-Rôtie tasting. Some tasters tried to like this, but I found it overwhelming volatile.
January 23, 2021 - Bottle opened 4 hours before serving. Very pronounced ripe cherry, red fruits on nose. Silky palate with long finish. It’s ready to drink and delicious.
December 21, 2020 - Winery you want to try: ripe dark fruit, earthy, savory, spices, overripe fruit, the hot vintage? Not what I was hoping for. Wining @ Cy. On day 2 more creamy, better balance, approaching the end of its drinking window. Too advanced for my taste.
November 13, 2020 - Pop and pour. Still pretty dark and youthful looking. Woodsy, peppery, oriental spice, anise on the nose. Woodsy with a touch of raisin/prune on the palate. A little bit lacking on the mid-palate. A weird, shrill acidity makes a brief appearance at the finish, which was a bit surprising. Very soft. Medium length. No point in keeping this as I don't think it will get better, and, in fact, seems to be over the hill already. Drink up.
October 15, 2020 - (CDV)
Quel nez! ah c'est Jamet, toujours aussi affriolant ...
Animal, mentholé, cassis et fruits noirs, c'est pur, bien qu'ici confit (figue); on retrouve ainsi 2003 (beaucoup plus que sur la brune), dans un style puissant, un peu plus chaleureux, mais, relativisons tout de même, sans déséquilibre rédhibitoire: on s'est régalé !