Jadot Clos St Jacques Vertical: '90 '02 '08 (Rosebowl @ Ben & Kendra's): Pnp over 4 hours. The 2008 is a treat for its medium weight, crunch, and grip but as compared to the others today, it offers more green notes and is more notably tannic. Savory and tangy with notes of earth, flowers, and roast meats. Nice oomph without being overbearing. A little wild. Paired well with a range of foods including melty iberico. This could use some smoothing out but unclear whether it's got the fruit to get there. Try 2026-2028.
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First of 6 purchased on release. What is this rule of fifteen nonsense, this is always a 20 year wine, at least. A really nice hint of potential on opening with the initial aromas. But for the first few hours, in the mouth this is hard and thin, with sharp tannins, even angular, saying 'just go away'. With 2-3 hours of air it transforms, the nose very expressive but higher-toned than usual, and gains tremendous depth of flavor. A pretty great $59 bottle of wine, but wait 5 more years to open the next one :-).
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Aroma of fruit, a bit of flower and mint, typical Jadot. Medium wine body good for food pairing. No surprise at all. A Clos Saint Jacques not up to what it stands for.
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Just a suggestion of Vitamin B when first poured. It breathes up quickly and is a very good wine in a very good spot. There are rich, tangy berry and cherry fruits. It has a bright line of minerally acidity and subtle savoury nuance. It builds through the palate and is expansive and highly perfumed.
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Perhaps this will be like 1996, when Lardière simply killed it. I've become less and less a fan of the vintage, and this wine does show a bit of the reason why -- the fruit is relatively attenuated in comparison to everything else, even though there is still fruit here. More prominent than usual acidity, but the tannins still could use some time to resolve.
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Rousseau night: Lovely rendition of CSJ. Very fresh, cool red fruit, a little acid kick and sweetness on the finish. Again, another wine that was much better after a couple of hours of air as it put on depth and weight.
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Gevrey Jacques Tasting (Chicago + Zoom): 90/99/02/08 Jadot CSJ. Very young in the context of the flight with primary red cherry and spice with structure that is still awkward and makes for a clunky palate. Better ~3 hours after the tasting started with structure starting to integrate. Better in 5-10+ years.
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Lovely. Drinking very well right now with excellent balance, great fruit, and a lovely palate. Nice but not great on the nose, wonderful in the mouth, good finish. Avoids the acidic bite of some 08s with great fruit, earth notes, and spice.
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Stunning wine. My second bottle in the last 4 years. This bottle had developed more depth and balance compared to the first time I tried it 4 years ago. Red fruit, earth and spice dominate the nose and palate. But what makes this wine so special is its texture. It's a medium weight wine with incredible balance and length. I would almost go so far as to say that it is elegant, which is not something you usually say about a Gevrey-Chambertin. Anyway, this wine made me a believer of the greatness of this vineyard. Drinking beautifully now (without any decant) but it may still develop a bit more over the next 5 years.
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Friday Night Burgs (Margeaux Brasserie): In a very good, early drinking window. More red fruit than you might expect. Nice meaty, spicy character. Very fresh and acid driven. A complete, but young CSJ.
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Burgundies at Margeaux Brasserie (Chicago, IL): Very 2008 with its bright and crunchy red fruit. I feel like this may well be one of the wines that manages to defy the vintage, as overall this has more breadth than many other 2008s. The fruit is still fresh and there's a bit of juiciness still, coupled with emerging earthy elements. The bright acids keep this fresh and make this easy to drink.
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Love. An hour in the decanter and this light-to medium bodied, cranberry-velvet, grassy, cinnamon concoction offers personality and force with total pleasure. Well-judged acidity and funk on the balance.
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Lunch at Venue by Sebastian with Davyd. BYO bottle. Tasted blind. Drank over 2 hours, was initially very tight so poured into decanter. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs. Nose is clean, initially tight showing only stony minerality and light garden flowers - which bloomed after air time in the decanter - medium+ intensity aromatics of fragrant garden flowers, crunchy stones minerals, red cherries, black cherries. Developing. On the palate, dry, juicy high acidity, medium alcohol (13%), supple low tannins showing a bit more heft to medium- with air, medium body. Medium flavour intensity, with flavours of strawberries, pretty red cherries, darker red cherries and black cherries with more air, brambles, stony minerality, hints of animal meat and pepper spice with more air. Sappy long finish. Very good quality. Initially really felt like a rather austere elegant Chambolle-Musigny Village wine. This truly needed air time in the decanter to show its worth. Needed time to put on structure and body. Still young now. I would say drink this in another 3-4 years will be better.
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This was drinking beautifully tonight with a fairly rustic mouthfeel and lots of penetrating, cool red and blue fruit, brambly sous bois notes, pretty floral undertones, firm minerality and some fairly firm, chalky tannins on the long finish. To my tastes, while there doesn't seem to be any hurry here, I think this is in a very good place right now.
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Pomegranate and night time garden smells. Pink, somkey orange. Propane, wintergreen, and organics. Mellow integrated and both internally complementary and complemtary to the food. Sleuthy. Mildly bloody. BBQ. Ultra smooth and even for such sauvage.
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Will put a more detailed note on the next one. At first I thought this had too much tartness in the palate for my preference, but everything else appealed to me greatly. so a 93. But after a couple glasses wish I had more and the tartness had subsided. so 94. So a 93-94. Had double decanted and slow o'd for 2 hours after putting back in bottle. Wondering if I would like this with more 5 years more age on it, i.e. more tertiary development... but would rest of wine lean more tart then? I'm not smart enough to know.
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Some pinot and chardonnay at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): An absolutely stunning bottle that really hits all the nails on the head for me. The nose isn't as aromatically intense and complex as the 2008 Lambrays, but there is a lovely mix of red and black fruit coupled with a slight hint of developing secondary characteristics. The palate is where this shines -- it is full and rounded, polished like an old rock in a riverbed, with just enough earthy funk that this still is incredibly clean. The fruit is crystalline and pure, and there's ample flesh here. For me, this is definitely ready to go, but there is also no harm in waiting.
Burghound Symposium Asia - Gevrey Chambertin Clos St.Jacques 1er Cru Masterclass (Hong Kong): The longer this wine sat in the glass the better it was and in the end it snatched the crown at this tasting of many ok but not really great wines. Nose of dark fruit, plum, earthy. Structured palate but there is lots of great sour cherry that accompanies the tannins. Lovely, fruity finish. Early drinking window, decant or wait till 2023. 94+
sorta felt closed down... the material was apparent but the enjoyment wasn't as much as I would have expected... decent acidity means this is likely to benefit from, and be able to, age for a long time... it will never be a big wine (which is OK by me)
Nice wine but reticent and less concentration than those it shared the table with (2 Grivot, a Drouhin CdlR, and a bunch of Chablis).
Young and primary, with most of the nose and palate dominated by delicate red cherry and floral notes. Just a touch of spice. I'll wait opening more bottles for several more years.
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An evening with Mrs. Sunshines husbond... (Søerne): Disappointing tonight; seems almost deluted and bony, very tight, very young very unforgiving. You have to wait for the Jadots, surelym, this vineyard usually delivers... 88+
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Blind Jadot Tasting (Chez Kailin): Served blind. One of the most youthful looking wines in the flight -- very bright ruby in appearance. Aromas are also more youthful with cherry liqueur, intense florals, spice and just a hint of booziness. On the palate, wow, great breadth and volume on the medium-to-full body. Bright acids provide plenty of lift and precision. Polished cherry fruit. Perhaps a little young and simple today, but 2-3 points of upside. My #3, Group #1.
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Jadot Blind Tasting and Dinner (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Tasted blind. First time I've had this wine since shortly after release. Bright and vibrant with lots of black fruit and meaty, sauvage Gevrey character throughout. Slightly hollow middle to start, which filled in within 15-20 minute in glass. I thought this CSJ from either 2005 or 2008, but erred by selecting the former.
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Great to taste this wine again. Still very young and in need of many more years in the cold cellar. A big and powerful St Jacques with wonderful balance. Glad I own a few of these.
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Very young and rather tightly wound, though a six hour decant proved very effective in getting this to show it's stuff. Pretty well closed aromatics. Medium plus spice on the palate over a dense core of dark red fruit with a hint of green freshness. Finishes well with good length and intensity. This was very fun to watch as it started to open after a lengthy decant. Preferred this to its '05 counterpart and look forward to tasting again 10 - 15 years on.
Scrappy, showy, spicy, ferrous minerals and sweet, spicy cherries all swirled up in a blender. Precocious, to be sure, but shows promise. Resist temptation, let this rest and settle down, fill out. Balsam and spice and everything nice. Great value. Drink thru 2040, recommended
Aerated in decanter 2 hours (needed 6-7), served non-blind with the '85 and the '05.
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Dark nose of truffle, spices, dark fruits and subtle florals. I left this in a decanter over the course of 5-6 hours and had a glass here-and-there throughout the night. Thought the wine had incredible elegant and precise fruit - at times, the fruit seemed a bit sappy, but being so pure I never minded. There's incredible structure and acidity underneath the intensely dark palate, so there's no question to me that this will last a long time. A real treat.
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Very shutdown for the first hour and a half. Showed some amazing raw materials once it finally opened. Gorgeous nose, texture and finish. This wine is all about finesse. Definitely needs to spend a lot of time in the cellar but should be an absolute rockstar in time.
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Where some of the 2008s have had a really pretty and inviting when just opened, this bottle needed a full day to show its stuff. Iron, cherry, soil, mineral, and purity. In the end it is softly powerful and will surely improve and reward those with patience.
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Hard to put this one into words, other than it's a wine that I really need to get more of. This is tremendous. Amazing depth and breadth; layers of red and dark fruited flavours, spicy and meaty accents, savoury earth and so much more, all conveyed with impeccable balance, moderate weight and a sense of restrained power.
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Really nice young burgundy. A bit hard at open, mellowed some with time. Great underlying fruit, interesting nose, good grip, good length, should be really nice with time.
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Powerfully aromatic, with scents sufficiently exotic to really whet the appetite for a taste, but it's not quite as characterful on the palate as the aroma promises - it's a bit tightly coiled, surprisingly spinal for a red. I still think of CSJ more as a very unique 1er than as a grand cru - just doesn't have the breadth and textural sophistication - and this is in line with that impression. (pre-bottling sample)
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Trip to Burgundy; 6/7/2009-6/10/2009 (The Cote d'Or): From barrel. Wow. This is going to be a great little wine when it grows up. Brooding, powerful nose with lots of dark fruit, almost cassis like, meat, white pepper and wood spice. Very serious palate as well. Clean, super-pure red fruits. Sculpted structure with super-fine tannins. Great power, but all in a very understated package – an iron fist in a velvet glove indeed. Finish was immensely long, with a cherry liquer spin at the end. An amazing young wine which showed all the qualities of the Clos St Jacques vineyard. 93-94
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2/11/2024 - BURG-ARESCO Does not like this wine: 82 Points
Too soon? Flat and maybe gone dormant.
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1/1/2024 - Rollerball wrote:
Jadot Clos St Jacques Vertical: '90 '02 '08 (Rosebowl @ Ben & Kendra's): Pnp over 4 hours. The 2008 is a treat for its medium weight, crunch, and grip but as compared to the others today, it offers more green notes and is more notably tannic. Savory and tangy with notes of earth, flowers, and roast meats. Nice oomph without being overbearing. A little wild. Paired well with a range of foods including melty iberico. This could use some smoothing out but unclear whether it's got the fruit to get there. Try 2026-2028.
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8/30/2023 - Force5 Likes this wine:
First of 6 purchased on release. What is this rule of fifteen nonsense, this is always a 20 year wine, at least. A really nice hint of potential on opening with the initial aromas. But for the first few hours, in the mouth this is hard and thin, with sharp tannins, even angular, saying 'just go away'. With 2-3 hours of air it transforms, the nose very expressive but higher-toned than usual, and gains tremendous depth of flavor. A pretty great $59 bottle of wine, but wait 5 more years to open the next one :-).
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12/30/2022 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 90 Points
Aroma of fruit, a bit of flower and mint, typical Jadot. Medium wine body good for food pairing. No surprise at all. A Clos Saint Jacques not up to what it stands for.
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6/17/2022 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Just a suggestion of Vitamin B when first poured. It breathes up quickly and is a very good wine in a very good spot. There are rich, tangy berry and cherry fruits. It has a bright line of minerally acidity and subtle savoury nuance. It builds through the palate and is expansive and highly perfumed.
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3/31/2022 - SARED wrote: 92 Points
pop and pour and felt young and in need of great amount of air (which was not given to it).
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8/29/2021 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Perhaps this will be like 1996, when Lardière simply killed it. I've become less and less a fan of the vintage, and this wine does show a bit of the reason why -- the fruit is relatively attenuated in comparison to everything else, even though there is still fruit here. More prominent than usual acidity, but the tannins still could use some time to resolve.
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8/15/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:
Rousseau night: Lovely rendition of CSJ. Very fresh, cool red fruit, a little acid kick and sweetness on the finish. Again, another wine that was much better after a couple of hours of air as it put on depth and weight.
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3/28/2021 - JOsgood wrote: 93 Points
This was firing. Great nose with a well developed mid palate. Lots of muscle and complexity. Still quite young.
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1/27/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points
Gevrey Jacques Tasting (Chicago + Zoom): 90/99/02/08 Jadot CSJ. Very young in the context of the flight with primary red cherry and spice with structure that is still awkward and makes for a clunky palate. Better ~3 hours after the tasting started with structure starting to integrate. Better in 5-10+ years.
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1/27/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Tasting ("The Jacques") (Chicagoland IL): Still slightly awkward and firm, but with so much black fruit and roasted meat. Dense and powerful now, but not “there” now.
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11/27/2020 - the godfather wrote:
Several hour decant. Gorgeous nose. Complex, perhaps not as long as anticipated but plenty going on. Will hold for now.
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9/19/2020 - Rechrom wrote: 94 Points
Lovely. Drinking very well right now with excellent balance, great fruit, and a lovely palate. Nice but not great on the nose, wonderful in the mouth, good finish. Avoids the acidic bite of some 08s with great fruit, earth notes, and spice.
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8/23/2020 - schan109 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bottle breathe for 2 hours. Lovely and matured bottle with smooth palate. Not as complex as other Jadot CSJ in later years
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2/29/2020 - markricardo Likes this wine: 95 Points
Stunning wine. My second bottle in the last 4 years. This bottle had developed more depth and balance compared to the first time I tried it 4 years ago. Red fruit, earth and spice dominate the nose and palate. But what makes this wine so special is its texture. It's a medium weight wine with incredible balance and length. I would almost go so far as to say that it is elegant, which is not something you usually say about a Gevrey-Chambertin. Anyway, this wine made me a believer of the greatness of this vineyard. Drinking beautifully now (without any decant) but it may still develop a bit more over the next 5 years.
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12/13/2019 - Nanda wrote: 92 Points
Friday Night Burgs (Margeaux Brasserie): In a very good, early drinking window. More red fruit than you might expect. Nice meaty, spicy character. Very fresh and acid driven. A complete, but young CSJ.
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12/13/2019 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Burgundies at Margeaux Brasserie (Chicago, IL): Very 2008 with its bright and crunchy red fruit. I feel like this may well be one of the wines that manages to defy the vintage, as overall this has more breadth than many other 2008s. The fruit is still fresh and there's a bit of juiciness still, coupled with emerging earthy elements. The bright acids keep this fresh and make this easy to drink.
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11/16/2019 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
Love. An hour in the decanter and this light-to medium bodied, cranberry-velvet, grassy, cinnamon concoction offers personality and force with total pleasure. Well-judged acidity and funk on the balance.
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11/1/2019 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lunch at Venue by Sebastian with Davyd. BYO bottle. Tasted blind. Drank over 2 hours, was initially very tight so poured into decanter. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, initially tight showing only stony minerality and light garden flowers - which bloomed after air time in the decanter - medium+ intensity aromatics of fragrant garden flowers, crunchy stones minerals, red cherries, black cherries. Developing.
On the palate, dry, juicy high acidity, medium alcohol (13%), supple low tannins showing a bit more heft to medium- with air, medium body. Medium flavour intensity, with flavours of strawberries, pretty red cherries, darker red cherries and black cherries with more air, brambles, stony minerality, hints of animal meat and pepper spice with more air.
Sappy long finish.
Very good quality. Initially really felt like a rather austere elegant Chambolle-Musigny Village wine. This truly needed air time in the decanter to show its worth. Needed time to put on structure and body. Still young now. I would say drink this in another 3-4 years will be better.
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8/3/2019 - Rollerball wrote:
Really noticed the crazy funky nose in this next to a more polished, darker ‘08 Oregon Pinot of similar quality. A very exciting wine.
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5/24/2019 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 92 Points
This was drinking beautifully tonight with a fairly rustic mouthfeel and lots of penetrating, cool red and blue fruit, brambly sous bois notes, pretty floral undertones, firm minerality and some fairly firm, chalky tannins on the long finish. To my tastes, while there doesn't seem to be any hurry here, I think this is in a very good place right now.
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5/11/2019 - Ward Huang Likes this wine: 94 Points
Totally agree with COLLECTOR1855's note but the other wines at the tasting chosen by me were also very good so it was an all happy ending
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3/29/2019 - Rollerball wrote:
Pomegranate and night time garden smells. Pink, somkey orange. Propane, wintergreen, and organics. Mellow integrated and both internally complementary and complemtary to the food. Sleuthy. Mildly bloody. BBQ. Ultra smooth and even for such sauvage.
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12/5/2018 - SARED Likes this wine: 94 Points
Will put a more detailed note on the next one. At first I thought this had too much tartness in the palate for my preference, but everything else appealed to me greatly. so a 93. But after a couple glasses wish I had more and the tartness had subsided. so 94. So a 93-94. Had double decanted and slow o'd for 2 hours after putting back in bottle. Wondering if I would like this with more 5 years more age on it, i.e. more tertiary development... but would rest of wine lean more tart then? I'm not smart enough to know.
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11/5/2018 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Some pinot and chardonnay at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): An absolutely stunning bottle that really hits all the nails on the head for me. The nose isn't as aromatically intense and complex as the 2008 Lambrays, but there is a lovely mix of red and black fruit coupled with a slight hint of developing secondary characteristics. The palate is where this shines -- it is full and rounded, polished like an old rock in a riverbed, with just enough earthy funk that this still is incredibly clean. The fruit is crystalline and pure, and there's ample flesh here. For me, this is definitely ready to go, but there is also no harm in waiting.
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4/22/2018 - wineappellation wrote: 88 Points
Restrained and jammy.
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4/21/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
Burghound Symposium Asia - Gevrey Chambertin Clos St.Jacques 1er Cru Masterclass (Hong Kong): The longer this wine sat in the glass the better it was and in the end it snatched the crown at this tasting of many ok but not really great wines. Nose of dark fruit, plum, earthy. Structured palate but there is lots of great sour cherry that accompanies the tannins. Lovely, fruity finish. Early drinking window, decant or wait till 2023. 94+
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4/2/2018 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 90 Points
sorta felt closed down... the material was apparent but the enjoyment wasn't as much as I would have expected... decent acidity means this is likely to benefit from, and be able to, age for a long time... it will never be a big wine (which is OK by me)
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11/6/2016 - KenK Likes this wine: 92 Points
Vinetasters - Jadot Blind Tasting Sleek dry lean cherry fruit driven with in chewy restrained style, give good pleasure now, better days likely ahead.
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10/28/2016 - gblacave wrote: 92 Points
Nice wine but reticent and less concentration than those it shared the table with (2 Grivot, a Drouhin CdlR, and a bunch of Chablis).
Young and primary, with most of the nose and palate dominated by delicate red cherry and floral notes. Just a touch of spice. I'll wait opening more bottles for several more years.
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10/11/2016 - beatles wrote: 88 Points
An evening with Mrs. Sunshines husbond... (Søerne): Disappointing tonight; seems almost deluted and bony, very tight, very young very unforgiving. You have to wait for the Jadots, surelym, this vineyard usually delivers... 88+
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10/4/2016 - Nanda wrote: 92 Points
Blind Jadot Tasting (Chez Kailin): Served blind. One of the most youthful looking wines in the flight -- very bright ruby in appearance. Aromas are also more youthful with cherry liqueur, intense florals, spice and just a hint of booziness. On the palate, wow, great breadth and volume on the medium-to-full body. Bright acids provide plenty of lift and precision. Polished cherry fruit. Perhaps a little young and simple today, but 2-3 points of upside. My #3, Group #1.
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10/4/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Jadot Blind Tasting and Dinner (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Tasted blind. First time I've had this wine since shortly after release. Bright and vibrant with lots of black fruit and meaty, sauvage Gevrey character throughout. Slightly hollow middle to start, which filled in within 15-20 minute in glass. I thought this CSJ from either 2005 or 2008, but erred by selecting the former.
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11/9/2014 - JOsgood wrote:
Great to taste this wine again. Still very young and in need of many more years in the cold cellar. A big and powerful St Jacques with wonderful balance. Glad I own a few of these.
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10/22/2014 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:
Very young and rather tightly wound, though a six hour decant proved very effective in getting this to show it's stuff. Pretty well closed aromatics. Medium plus spice on the palate over a dense core of dark red fruit with a hint of green freshness. Finishes well with good length and intensity. This was very fun to watch as it started to open after a lengthy decant. Preferred this to its '05 counterpart and look forward to tasting again 10 - 15 years on.
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10/21/2014 - Tim Heaton wrote:
Scrappy, showy, spicy, ferrous minerals and sweet, spicy cherries all swirled up in a blender. Precocious, to be sure, but shows promise. Resist temptation, let this rest and settle down, fill out. Balsam and spice and everything nice. Great value. Drink thru 2040, recommended
Aerated in decanter 2 hours (needed 6-7), served non-blind with the '85 and the '05.
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8/21/2014 - Simply Wine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Young but developing very nicely. Beautiful floral nose. Deep round red fruits through the palate. Good minerality and vibrancy. Quite enjoyable.
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12/29/2012 - beezer6 wrote: 90 Points
Saturday Tasting Group (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (Northbrook, IL)): Light strawberry, cotton candy. Light smoke. Minty and fresh moss. Pretty.
Palate a bit muted. Nice and young. Maybe in a dormant stage.
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4/13/2012 - tooch wrote: 93 Points
Dark nose of truffle, spices, dark fruits and subtle florals. I left this in a decanter over the course of 5-6 hours and had a glass here-and-there throughout the night. Thought the wine had incredible elegant and precise fruit - at times, the fruit seemed a bit sappy, but being so pure I never minded. There's incredible structure and acidity underneath the intensely dark palate, so there's no question to me that this will last a long time. A real treat.
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7/31/2011 - EMichels wrote: 96 Points
Really clean; Nice; Bright; Very refined; Needs 30 minutes to be mind-blowing
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7/31/2011 - JOsgood wrote: 93 Points
Very shutdown for the first hour and a half. Showed some amazing raw materials once it finally opened. Gorgeous nose, texture and finish. This wine is all about finesse. Definitely needs to spend a lot of time in the cellar but should be an absolute rockstar in time.
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5/11/2011 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 93 Points
Where some of the 2008s have had a really pretty and inviting when just opened, this bottle needed a full day to show its stuff. Iron, cherry, soil, mineral, and purity. In the end it is softly powerful and will surely improve and reward those with patience.
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4/23/2011 - salil wrote: 94 Points
Hard to put this one into words, other than it's a wine that I really need to get more of. This is tremendous. Amazing depth and breadth; layers of red and dark fruited flavours, spicy and meaty accents, savoury earth and so much more, all conveyed with impeccable balance, moderate weight and a sense of restrained power.
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11/26/2010 - Rechrom wrote: 92 Points
Really nice young burgundy. A bit hard at open, mellowed some with time. Great underlying fruit, interesting nose, good grip, good length, should be really nice with time.
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4/7/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote:
Powerfully aromatic, with scents sufficiently exotic to really whet the appetite for a taste, but it's not quite as characterful on the palate as the aroma promises - it's a bit tightly coiled, surprisingly spinal for a red. I still think of CSJ more as a very unique 1er than as a grand cru - just doesn't have the breadth and textural sophistication - and this is in line with that impression. (pre-bottling sample)
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6/9/2009 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Trip to Burgundy; 6/7/2009-6/10/2009 (The Cote d'Or): From barrel. Wow. This is going to be a great little wine when it grows up. Brooding, powerful nose with lots of dark fruit, almost cassis like, meat, white pepper and wood spice. Very serious palate as well. Clean, super-pure red fruits. Sculpted structure with super-fine tannins. Great power, but all in a very understated package – an iron fist in a velvet glove indeed. Finish was immensely long, with a cherry liquer spin at the end. An amazing young wine which showed all the qualities of the Clos St Jacques vineyard. 93-94
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