Massively fruity with everything from blackberry to peach (from the generous splash of viognier). Not quite as tensile as the St. Jo VV. Pleasurable in a Hawaiian Punch sort of way.
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Drank over two days, alongside the same producer's and vintage Saint-Joseph, which I preferred. This is in a softer style, polished, clean, and smooth. Something other than my preference for the place (charred earth, blood, smoke, and minerals), yet lovely and easy-drinking. Some tasters thought this had longer-term aging potential, whereas I found it lacked the power and substance to improve significantly. In particular, the Viognier excessively cut the Syrah's latent power and flavor profile. 91-92.
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Even without reading the back label you know that this is a Kermit Lynch selection. This is reassuring both for wine drinkers who appreciate his stylistic preferences and those who do not. Obviously entirely too young to close the chapter on this wine yet but certain elements are already clear: Very ripe ( over-ripe) style that takes the wine out of balance. High alcohol level and lack of acidity. Beautiful violet note, but disturbing musty character in the back. Surely the result of these "run amok" fermentations..for an importer who praises the natural minimalist style, the winemaking here is precisely heavy-handed....
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The nose displayed blueberry, violets, sweet spices, a hints of dried orange peel and crushed stone. On the palate, I found lifted textures with black fruits, inner florals and sweet tannin. It finished on fresh blackberry, blueberries and violets with hints of smoke. It’s a very pretty wine that’s so easy to like.
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This really impressed me it's approachable and delicious now but got the stuffing for lots of future development nice mix of dark red berry, back fruit, powderEd stone minerals, a smokey game hint, quite similar palate, though the game note feels touch more like bacon especially towards the finish, lots of acidity and fine grainy restrained tannins could drink wines like this all day!
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Day later from memory. Last night was an exercise in too much too soon, and this followed a great 2014 Boillot Clos de Mouchere that was also unready to drink. So the press behind Northern Rhone 2015 seems to be accurate in my limited experience, because this was terrific if a little too closed today. A short decant was no use at all. Super attractive blackberry fruit accompanied by black pepper and a savory meaty note that might become bacony but isn't yet. Big wash of chalky minerality on the back end that I suspect will become integrated with more time. Really good but should be held for 3-5 years at minimum.
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4/10/2021 - CUTig1 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Needed the cellaring time.
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3/24/2021 - slabslovin Likes this wine: 91 Points
Black pepper, jam, faint strawberry. Fades quickly on the palate.
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11/6/2020 - davidb18 Likes this wine: 92 Points
fantastic. This will benefit with time, but showing well with time in the carafe to open up.
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8/8/2020 - davidb18 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Getting better with cellar time. Earthy, ripe fruits and spice.
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1/12/2020 - murkybird Likes this wine: 90 Points
Massively fruity with everything from blackberry to peach (from the generous splash of viognier). Not quite as tensile as the St. Jo VV. Pleasurable in a Hawaiian Punch sort of way.
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2/8/2019 - Motz wrote: 91 Points
Drank over two days, alongside the same producer's and vintage Saint-Joseph, which I preferred. This is in a softer style, polished, clean, and smooth. Something other than my preference for the place (charred earth, blood, smoke, and minerals), yet lovely and easy-drinking. Some tasters thought this had longer-term aging potential, whereas I found it lacked the power and substance to improve significantly. In particular, the Viognier excessively cut the Syrah's latent power and flavor profile. 91-92.
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7/15/2017 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 87 Points
Even without reading the back label you know that this is a Kermit Lynch selection. This is reassuring both for wine drinkers who appreciate his stylistic preferences and those who do not.
Obviously entirely too young to close the chapter on this wine yet but certain elements are already clear:
Very ripe ( over-ripe) style that takes the wine out of balance. High alcohol level and lack of acidity. Beautiful violet note, but disturbing musty character in the back. Surely the result of these "run amok" fermentations..for an importer who praises the natural minimalist style, the winemaking here is precisely heavy-handed....
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7/7/2017 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 92 Points
The nose displayed blueberry, violets, sweet spices, a hints of dried orange peel and crushed stone. On the palate, I found lifted textures with black fruits, inner florals and sweet tannin. It finished on fresh blackberry, blueberries and violets with hints of smoke. It’s a very pretty wine that’s so easy to like.
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6/25/2017 - eoinhharkins wrote: 93 Points
This really impressed me it's approachable and delicious now but got the stuffing for lots of future development nice mix of dark red berry, back fruit, powderEd stone minerals, a smokey game hint, quite similar palate, though the game note feels touch more like bacon especially towards the finish, lots of acidity and fine grainy restrained tannins could drink wines like this all day!
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6/22/2017 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 92 Points
Day later from memory. Last night was an exercise in too much too soon, and this followed a great 2014 Boillot Clos de Mouchere that was also unready to drink. So the press behind Northern Rhone 2015 seems to be accurate in my limited experience, because this was terrific if a little too closed today. A short decant was no use at all. Super attractive blackberry fruit accompanied by black pepper and a savory meaty note that might become bacony but isn't yet. Big wash of chalky minerality on the back end that I suspect will become integrated with more time. Really good but should be held for 3-5 years at minimum.
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