2017 Domaine Courbis St. Joseph

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  8/28/2022 - sid_loves_wine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Beautiful, pretty typical Saint Joseph- happy that I successfully blinded it as a St. Jo, although I had Crozes on my mind too and even potentially Washington, considering the density of the fruit. Not the most elegant/complex/precise example, but not at all the worst either. Really nice ripe blackberry and plum on the nose, a bit shy but def present, and a dose of olive brine/peppery meat. Really nice acidity supporting that, a little bit saline and briney without bullying the fruit. Pretty much a super-typical, middle-of-the-road, but totally "correct" and very well-balanced syrah. I'd love to try this with a little age on it, just to relax it a bit.

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  3/19/2022 - Vancouver Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Deep ruby- purple in appearance. Completely opaque.
  
  Fruit forward on the nose- this just bursts with blackberries, black raspberry, tapenade and some spice. Nothing subtle here !
  
  Medium plus in body with plenty of structure and good (again fruit forward) flavor concentration. Medium plus and delicious finish.
  
  A great wine that will also be a crowd pleaser. Not sure how this will age- I purchased 1/2 a case, so eventually will find out.

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  5/1/2020 - gerdami Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Belle robe sombre, arômes de fruits des bois, excellent avec un lapin aux pruneaux

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  1/16/2020 - Raage wrote: 86 Points

  Sur le poivre, La cannelle, une touche boisée, un peu deçu sur ce joli millesime septentrional… c’est vraiment moins bon que les Royes, qui est plus consistant, mineral, où la syrah fait merveille. En fait ça boise un peu trop ici, le vin manque de fond pour le supporter (moyennement strcturé, frais et plutôt rustique), et il semble même encore un peu jeune: encore 6 mois/ 1 an et ce sera peut-être mieux, plus fondu, moins artificiel.

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  9/18/2019 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Apparently this is a very famous Courbis and they are small farmers. The last village of the Saint Joseph and then Cornas. The same domaine Gerard and Leudovic (sp?). A blend of 12 different parcels of wines. Mentored by Chave and Chave apparently comes every vintage to help. Farmers from nothing and now into this.

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