Jersey Boys (Grand Sichuan, Jersey City, NJ): Beautiful nose that is classic Chevillon. Cherry, slutty, a bit gutty, sweet spices, sweet, marzipan. Palate shows cherry and spices but also meaty and earthy. Lots of structure. Finish is really structured with dusty tannins. Wine is really growing with time and the palate and finish are just killer. Tons of sweet cherries and spice. Gutty. Dusty tannins but such grip and depth. This just kept getting better and better. Wow. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5.5-6/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5-18.5/20.
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Grand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Just a stunning bottle of Burgundy - a hauntingly complex and beautiful fragrance, a palate that's so graceful and polished with fine grained tannin beneath, and somehow it keeps getting better and better with air. There's no sense trying to describe the various flavour components, because this is so much more than the sum of all the various flavours - I'll just say it seems to show equal parts fruit, earth, and more savoury developed tertiary notes, with everything coming together into a seamless whole.
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Medium to full body. This currently has the beautiful profile of an aged burgundy with heavy dark fruit and deep secondary and emerging tertiary fruit. What’s crazy is that about 35% of the way through the mid palate a giant tannic spine kicks in, leaving a heavy drying sensation for minutes. This needs at least 2-3 years of fiether aging for the tannin to mellow and integrate. In the meanwhile, the first 50pct of the experience is great! I really hope the back half catches up.
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{bought on release #5 of 6, perfect fill, cork fully sound and easily pulled; had with JL and in-laws} Lovely, lovely savory wine, still a few unresolved tannins rattling about, just excellent LSG. "Iron-minerality" for sure in the flavor set, lots of depth and length. If you have well-stored bottles (or better, mags) this will go for another 5 years at least, but doubt much if any upside. Easy to see why this site has been proposed for Grand Cru elevation given its showing tonight in a so-so vintage.
My view is that this is not a wine for PopNPour and a fast/superficial taste. Open your bottle, savor it with food over hours, reap the harvest of having cellared the wine for all this time as the layers and complexity unfold. Much better than a bottle of the Vaucrains recently opened that was flawed with brett.
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Light ruby. Mostly wet earth followed by black and blue fruit scents. Medium weight, lowish acidity, soil, and subdued fruit. Good but relatively undistinguished for Les St. Georges. It could go on, but I don't see a lot of upside here.
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4/20/2024 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 96 Points
Jersey Boys (Grand Sichuan, Jersey City, NJ): Beautiful nose that is classic Chevillon. Cherry, slutty, a bit gutty, sweet spices, sweet, marzipan. Palate shows cherry and spices but also meaty and earthy. Lots of structure. Finish is really structured with dusty tannins. Wine is really growing with time and the palate and finish are just killer. Tons of sweet cherries and spice. Gutty. Dusty tannins but such grip and depth. This just kept getting better and better. Wow. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5.5-6/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5-18.5/20.
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4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Grand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Just a stunning bottle of Burgundy - a hauntingly complex and beautiful fragrance, a palate that's so graceful and polished with fine grained tannin beneath, and somehow it keeps getting better and better with air. There's no sense trying to describe the various flavour components, because this is so much more than the sum of all the various flavours - I'll just say it seems to show equal parts fruit, earth, and more savoury developed tertiary notes, with everything coming together into a seamless whole.
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5/26/2023 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium to full body. This currently has the beautiful profile of an aged burgundy with heavy dark fruit and deep secondary and emerging tertiary fruit. What’s crazy is that about 35% of the way through the mid palate a giant tannic spine kicks in, leaving a heavy drying sensation for minutes. This needs at least 2-3 years of fiether aging for the tannin to mellow and integrate. In the meanwhile, the first 50pct of the experience is great! I really hope the back half catches up.
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3/9/2022 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 93 Points
{bought on release #5 of 6, perfect fill, cork fully sound and easily pulled; had with JL and in-laws}
Lovely, lovely savory wine, still a few unresolved tannins rattling about, just excellent LSG. "Iron-minerality" for sure in the flavor set, lots of depth and length. If you have well-stored bottles (or better, mags) this will go for another 5 years at least, but doubt much if any upside. Easy to see why this site has been proposed for Grand Cru elevation given its showing tonight in a so-so vintage.
My view is that this is not a wine for PopNPour and a fast/superficial taste. Open your bottle, savor it with food over hours, reap the harvest of having cellared the wine for all this time as the layers and complexity unfold. Much better than a bottle of the Vaucrains recently opened that was flawed with brett.
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3/3/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light ruby. Mostly wet earth followed by black and blue fruit scents. Medium weight, lowish acidity, soil, and subdued fruit. Good but relatively undistinguished for Les St. Georges. It could go on, but I don't see a lot of upside here.
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