2019 Louis Claude Desvignes Morgon Javernières Les Impenitents

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 88 points

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  2/19/2022 - rcb25 wrote:

  Popped and poured. When served at cellar temperature (admittedly, I keep mine cooler at ~10°C), the wine seemed a bit muted on the nose at first. There's a tad of alcoholic heat on entry on the palate that gives way to a deeply concentrated wine filled with tons of dry extract. After some fifteen minutes in the glass it started showing better. Savoury, some woodsy notes, rhubarb, calamint, ajowan, violets, dried tree bark, potpourri. Long, mouth coating mineral-laden finish. Firm powdery tannins. With about 45min of air it became much more open aromatically, showing some more of its red fruit characteristics. With time you stop noticing the higher octane and focus on the other notes, though every now and then it still pokes through. It conjures up an image of a lineman dancing ballet. Big, muscular, yet attempting to be lighter and graceful. And while it is successful in the execution, ultimately its burly nature and frame is still evident and pokes through here and there, somewhat breaking that suspension of disbelief. A wine that requires some patience in the cellar. I'll revisit my next bottle in 5+ years.
  
  ABV: 14%
  Closure: natural cork
  Decant: N/A
  Stem: Grassl Liberte

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  11/15/2021 - Philippe_C wrote: 94 Points

  Huge nose of black chocolate, green almonds, coffee beans, forest floor, black dark cherries, mineral... Taste of black sappy tannin, black berries, superb freshness and mineral, delicious!!

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  8/10/2021 - PatrickO33 wrote: 87 Points

  Wet earth, forest berries on the nose. Dense tannins, dense; need time.

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  12/16/2020 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A highly expressive nose of red and blue fruits, violets and earth. It is so sensual and silky against the gums and delivers a pure and detailed flavour hit. It builds through the palate, fanning out on the long finish like great red Burg does. Seriously good.

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