2013 André Perret St. Joseph Les Grisières

Community Tasting Notes (7) Median Score: 88 points

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  3/25/2022 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep purple to a violet edge, the aromas are fresh lavender and dried red flowers (touch violet too) with lifted fruits of blueberry, black raspberry and boysenberry. Garrigue notes appear joined by minerals, cool river stones, Pepper and stem along with sour cream and smoke.
  The entry is vibrant with a granitic feel, crisp acidity and a cool refreshing approach. Blue fruits and black cherry meet evergreen leaves, brine, stems and sea salt/seaweed. The tannins are firm yet fine-grained giving grip and linearity. The mid-palate and back reveal a little more sweetness as more blueberry fruit coulis elements come through. The wine is well-balanced but would benefit from more time in the bottle to aid complexity and further integration. With some elegance and good depth, the wine is medium to full-bodied and finishes long with additional complexity of lavender, fennel, sea salt and liquorice.

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  3/4/2022 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep ruby wine with purple edges; Perfumed and complex, with notes of tilled soils, pepper, cherry stem, black cherry flesh, olives in brine, mineral-saline, and smoke. This segues into mulberry, boysenberry, blueberry, and garrigue elements.
  A lovely, soft, sappy entry with lively acidity, a core of sweet, fleshy fruit and compote is framed by firm, sinewy tannins. Interspersed are steely notes that build to pencil shavings, pepper and mineral edges.
  Medium-bodied and complex, the mid-palate to back palate introduces cherry skin layers, cherry flesh, black raspberry, liquorice, button mushroom and a wonderfully cool and freshness that permeates the wine. Closes with grippy, gently rubbing tannins and a long finish.

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  9/25/2021 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  Had this in my cellar for 6 years. Kept standing upright for 6 months anticipating opening for a true discerning Rhone connoisseur.
  
  Today, the Silicon Valley Open Studios, I chose this for me, as I deserved a really good Syrah. I chose well. My studio is rife with hundreds of bottles of Syrah too, so this was a difficult pick. My intent was to keep this back for my enjoyment and to only share with those who knew what it was.
  
  Great typical Northern Rhone.
  Initial decant held no nose. This persisted for two hours after, then began to show tartness with steely minerals and bramble.
  The palate was completely dry with grip of stones. There's some oak tannin, but not prominent.
  
  I'll add in a few hours after it gets a full day of air.
  
  I got to share with a true French connoisseur! She was a professional plein air artiste! My honor to paint her with this wine! Her portrait with the wine and acrylic turned out magnifique!
  I got to speak French with her for most of the day, too. I miss that: Speaking French.
  What a great wine for such an historic day.

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  11/28/2020 - Raizes wrote: 88 Points

  偏红色水果的果味和少许胡椒、甘草的香料味，整体略显沉闷。入口酸度较高，使果味的存在感也得到了加强，只是略显单调。

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  9/1/2020 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Deep ruby, the nose exudes lavender, red cherry flesh, peppercorns, wildflowers - cistus, bay leaf, wild fennel with oak nuances of balsa wood and some roasted meat - beef topside! There is a coolness to the nose that continues on the palate. Here darker rather than red fruit meets juicy sappy elements, (stem inclusion?) good intensity of flavour with feral qualities and a dry sort of chopped stone (reminds me of cold limestone), grippy tannins tempered with a creme fraiche lavender-scented element—fairly long farewell this is an elegant wine.

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