2017 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie Les Journaries / Maestria

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  1/21/2024 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Perfect closure. Still purple - minimal clear rim and just the hint of brick on an expansive swirl. Restrained nose - black cherry compote with a hint of menthol. Palate is juicy black cherry with fine grained tannins very much to the fore. A very restrained wine now after its wild youth - not boring but certainly an elemental bourgeois opulence, before (hopefully!), a wild bohemian phase later in life.

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  11/22/2023 - rjfix Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Quite a bit of tannins. A beautiful wine. Decant at this time

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  4/15/2023 - aero Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium bodied, traditional styling, high quality natural cork.
  
  Three years since my last bottle, followed over two days. Now opening up a bit and showing that it is in fact much "cleaner" than most Journaries vintages -- Cornas-like rusticity has been traded for crystaline mountain berries perfuming the room from when the bottle is opened to the last echoes in the finish.
  
  The balance, complexity, depth, and persistance are punching in a price range above retail. Give it another 3-5 years, but enjoyable today. Little change between day one and two, though perhaps a hint more savory on day 2.

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  1/16/2022 - Dale M wrote: 94 Points

  Decanted 8hrs. I have really been enjoying 17 N. Rhones, which combine early accessibility and seemed to be priced well. This seems to be the case across a lot of regions, Burgundy etc. And here is yet another perfect example and probably one of the most enjoyable young Levets I can recall tasting. It doesn’t so much come across as ripe ala 2015 but simply expressive, clear in what it is offering and where it wants to go to. A lovely balance between perfectly fresh black currant plays off the back end structure, which adds just the right amount of saline /blood, earth, and a touch of fresh tire on the finish. Don’t hesitate to open this young, it surely will age, but it has so much so say already.

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  6/16/2021 - Tgood wrote: 93 Points

  Deep dark purple red black - ready clean nose of espresso, charcoal, black cherries, compost and dill. Admirable concentration with nice acids and a shit ton of fine regal tannins which I worry may end up a signature trait of this bottling but at less than a franklin per 750 I’ll put a couple in the cellar with a decade or 3 horizon on revisiting.

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