2019 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  4/6/2024 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My first Gonon from St. Joe
  
  First impression is the quality of fruit and balanced palate. A well captured sense of place in the wine making processes and farming. It's easy to see how this has a cult following. I have some 14's inbound so it will be nice to see what these wines do with relative age on them.
  
  Plenty of upside laying these down but no harm pulling one now.
  
  94+

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  2/6/2024 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opened but did not decant. Was generally accessible in 20 min but will decant next time, as this is still tightly wound overall. Murky purple color with a ruby hue. Floral nose brings spicy anise, blueberry compote, purple lavender, clove cigarettes, and diesel petrol. The palate is medium, compact, and hard, bringing a core of blackberries, blueberries, and chocolate raspberries mixed with wild game and crushed rock. The finish is hard and tannic, so best with food. This is refined and polished yet still primary and hard and will be best 2026-2036. Technical score: 93. Enjoyment score: 93.

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  12/30/2023 - benoitguisti Likes this wine: 98 Points

  St Jo Pierre Gonon 2019 Rouge has a clear, deep purple color appearance.
  
  After 3 hours you get a dark olives, tobacco, dark cherry baked in the clafoutis cake.
  
  It is a full bodied wine yet elegant with a velvety tannic structure. Violet flowers, black olives, blackcurrant, clafoutis cherry and tobacco flavours.

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  11/18/2023 - brooklynguy wrote:

  Not decanted and takes less than an hour to be fully open. Very dark in fruit and mineral profile on the nose, almost tarry. Clean though, and fresh. Something floral emerges too, like candied purple flowers. Good acidity on the palate and the wine is well balanced. Enjoyable wine that seems to be fully approachable now, and doesn’t really seem as though there is anything in reserve - this is the wine. It’s not very articulate or detailed, and it’s more power and concentration than nuance and grace. That’s the vintage, I suppose. This is not a wine I’m going to age for very long.
  
  And now after writing this I read my previous note - quite a different impression this time. Perhaps I should have decanted this.

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  11/11/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  Menthol, dried flowers and plum and raspberry fruits. Silky, voluminous and fleshy, but understated at the same time. Grip without force. Perfume and expansion. Really good.

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