2017 Domaine Jean-Claude Marsanne St. Joseph

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  12/10/2023 - wwolf1 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Couleur foncée, nez très peu syrah, en bouche le vin est épicé, puissant, avec de beaux tanins pas agressifs et une belle longueur. Par contre, on est clairement du coté sudiste et c'est pas ce que je préfère... mais c'est bien quand même.
  14/20

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  5/12/2023 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Likes this wine:

  Foolish to drink this 5 years from vintage
  6 though?
  Oh, yeah
  Back & forth between olives and flowers over 5 days, before some sense of meat and iron came in on the 7th day
  Delicious from beginning to end, but especially the end

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  10/7/2022 - Jon Harrison Likes this wine: 91 Points

  (Imported by Kermit Lynch). Mauves is one of the original villages of the St-Joseph AOC; located directly across the river from the epic granite hill of Hermitage (and just south). Small 16 acre vineyard planted in 1940-45, other vines are 60 to 25 years old. Aged for 12-15 months in 600L demi-muids (70-80%). Granite soils.
  2017 is a very good vintage in the northern Rhône.
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  Color: Dark ruby. Opaque.
  
  Nose: Classic northern Rhône Syrah nose of purple plum, bitter cherry, green/black olive, violet, smoke, and dark damp soil. Clean.
  
  Beautiful complexity in a good glass (Riedel, Zalto, etc).
  
  Palate: Elegant and light on its feet.... but rich palate of black plum, blackberry, and black raspberry Syrah. Noticable, sl firm tannins still (in late 2022), which I love. Excellent balance. 14.5% alc.
  
  Elegant, authentic, small production St.-Joseph. This is exquisite.
  
  91 - solid.
  Peak drinking: 2021 to 2028.
  
  JGH sommelier CMS III, San Francisco/Bay Area, CA.

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  4/3/2022 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente wrote:

  TLDR: see May 8th, 2023 note
  
  Like the members less impressed with the '16, not getting meat and barely getting black olive at all. But it is improving 2.5 days in
  Chocolate pomegranate at first. Demanded blood, got flowers instead
  2nd night underripe blackberry, clove, potting soil, blueberry & little bit o peach
  Noon(ish): rich kid crayons, camphor, campfire, the crayons at Lascaux were made of blood! Batmobile to the Louvre, Sophie!
  Will this evolve to display a pleasurable panoply of oenological attributes? Tune in tomorrow,
  SAME BAT TIME, SAME BAT CHANNEL
  
  4 & 5 days in, the blueberry's been replaced by palm sugar, and I'd say this wine is like the 6/29/21 2016 note: boysenberry, light tar, lacks an identity, not all that distinguishable from domestic. I'd add like mevushal petite sirah, where the heat dims the roasted tomato flavor. You may want this to be something echt yet exotic, but it's kind of boring, and not worth the $37 I paid
  
  Epilogue: To be fair, the posters noting its food-friendliness are correct, it's just very unprepossessing as a stand alone

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  3/6/2022 - FamousWine Likes this wine:

  100% Syrah. 13.5% abv. Aerated for 3h before lunch. The first nose is an explosion of slightly ashy black fruits. Then, the complexity unfolds through larded touches, violet candies, a hint of graphite and waxed leather. The spices are a step behind and traces of oak aging are almost non-existent. In the mouth, the aromatic palette is dark, less friendly than on the nose, with flavours of plums, blackberries, tapenade as well as some metallic undertones reminiscent of blood. Violet brings a delicate spring touch and brightens up this medium to full-bodied juice. Tannins are beastly abundant but incredibly approachable. Salivating, greedy but moderate liquorice finish, revealing a tiny minerality. That's already delicious! It triggers a big smile! However, further cellaring is advised: I would like to revisit in at least 5 years, when the matter will be calmed down and the palate will be fully expressed.
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