February 29, 2024 - Fragrant and lovely nose with red berries, cherries, sous bois, and violets. Good acidity and excellent balance with more wild strawberry, red berry, forest notes, and a hint of moss. Long finish. Fantastic wine that is showing really well already.
December 29, 2023 - Monstrously closed and basically only showing potential right now…
December 28, 2023 - Perfect cork.
Pure rich cherry red.
Silky, delicate structure but long resonating finish.
Delicious rich ripe red berries and super refined spice, velvety, lush, but silky is the key on the finish. Has a hint of earth about it, but fruit dominates. Delicious.
November 27, 2023 - Pronounced nose intensity with graphite, toast, spices, red and black fruits, violet, flora. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Can drink now and can be aged.
September 14, 2023 - More closed than Fourrier, hint of oak, discreet black cherry
Rich texture on the palate -
More elegance, very very harmonious
Big but almost imperceptible tannins
With air fresh strawberries and mint
The fruit really comes out on the palate with air
A baby but so gorgeous already, needs a good hour of air to express itself
July 29, 2023 - Belated birthday wine session at Wimborne. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour with a purplish tinge. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of integrating expensive oak, ripe dark red cherries, emerging earth, fragrant peonies with more air. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), smooth but structured medium tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of ripe dark red cherries, integrating expensive oak, emerging savoury earth, sweet red plums with more air. Long finish that gives a strong feeling of completeness and pleasure.
Excellent quality. A very pretty CSJ that is very much pure drinking pleasure, but seduces you in a gentle caress and invites you to focus your full attention on it, and to control yourself from imbibing it too fast. Still long life ahead for this 2005.
July 7, 2023 - Quite a smoky nose along with some meat and iron and black cherry fruit. Good flesh in the mouth and plenty of spice. There’s some earthy, savoury nuance and along finish carried by perfectly ripe tannins. Still youthful but starting to drink well.
May 30, 2023 - Relatively diluted palate, gained weight.
July 26, 2022 - Aromatically this was incredible, but on the palate it's still coiled up and shut down a bit. Better after an hour in the glass, this needs air and ideally a lot more time in the bottle to really show its stuff. Question we all had was whether it would ever fully come around...
March 10, 2022 - Wine Tasted at Acker Auction (Marea - New York NY): Small glass given to me as I was leaving, brief note. While there is still an underlying firmness here. so much black cherry and berry seem to working miracles in my mouth with spice, roasted game, and liqueur hints. So much here it simply captured my attention. This is just a few years (or hours decanted) away from matching (exceeding?) the greatness of the 1999.