Community Tasting Notes 37

• The Guzz Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 30, 2024 - Coming into its own. A bit astringent on opening but really blossoms with a couple hours air. Meat, olives, and sweet Gonon fruit. Hard to put down.

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• BCJ99 wrote: 91 points

  July 5, 2023 - Very typical syrah, blueberry, pepper, violet, this being juicy and fruit forward in Gonon style, but starting to develop some earthy notes, some bacon, I think I liked this even better a little younger, drink up!

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• Devlon Moore Likes this wine:

  May 27, 2023 - Good God Gonon. Poured blind to me. I guessed it as top flight Cornas. What a wine. Pure Rhône Valley blood. Pure tight fruit and structure and perfect balance. And this wine is Ardeche! I used to sell Gonon. If I still did I would keep every bottle for myself. Now I have to taste some recent St Joseph. Drink. You could hold it but man when it’s this good it’s hard not to drink.

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• PacoHigon Likes this wine:

  February 2, 2023 - La maison Pierre Gonon disfruta de una merecida reputación por su trabajo en la zona del Ródano. En este caso trabaja con viñas jóvenes en las laderas de Tournon y St. Jean de Muzols y viñas de unos 30 años en las parcelas más bajas de Saint-Joseph. Atractiva syrah de perfil muy franco, con un color granate vivo de buena capa y una nariz atractiva, muy bien definida con seductores notas de violetas, toques aceitunas negras, suaves especiados y matices tostados. En boca entra bien, con cuerpo medio, tanino firme, buena acidez, suaves amargos, estructura media y bastante persistencia. Una buena aproximación a la syrah.

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• pbaek wrote:

  December 21, 2022 - Gorgeous nose of violets, pepper, olives. Lively, juicy fruit on the palate, good acidity and freshness. Spicy with marks of pepper and dark olives, this is a great vintage of this wine. Will it get better? I don’t think so. Will it age well? Yes, I think so. But I would drink this now for the sheer pleasure of the fruit and the aromatics and then wait for the St-Jo.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Pierre Gonon
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Les Iles Feray
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Ardèche
• UPC Code 7071115158972

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• Pending Delivery 20 (3%)
• In Cellars 381 (66%)
• Consumed 177 (31%)

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