Still super tight yet magnificent in its posture and non-negotiable place in time. Enjoy a bottle now but save the rest for your grandchildren. - at Paradisea — a day ago
Very mature. A little brown. Nice — 9 days ago
Needs long decanting — 2 days ago
Bought at auction. First bottle awful. This one is lovely. Needed two hours of air to settle and integrate. Freeze dried strawberries, dried cherries, plum, dust, herbs like tarragon and thyme on nose. I could smell for hours. Palate is bigger than I expected more game and herbs than fruit. Leather with dried cherries. There’s more herbs and plums and cooked/reduced berries but not super sweet. Good tannin still. Pretty good and fun to try at 26 years. I am guessing warm vintage based on abv. — a month ago
Dark ruby in color with a wide reddish rim.
Beautiful nose of blueberries, black plums, cherries, spices, dark chocolates, oak, licorice and black pepper.
Medium plus in body with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with black plums, cooked cherries, herbs, spices, light cedar, earth, chocolates and peppercorn.
Tangy finish with fine grained tannins and raspberries.
This is a delicious GSM blend from Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Elegant and rich. Fruit forward and complex.
This 11 year old, from the great 2015 vintage, is drinking beautifully now, and will continue to age nicely in the next 5 to 7 years.
I've had the 2021 vintage not too long ago, and this one is drinking much better now.
Nicely balanced, and good by itself as a sipping wine or with food.
A blend of mostly Grenache, with Syrah and Mourvedre.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$70. — a month ago
Cherry red. Iron. Matured black fruits. Dusty?
Domaine de la Janasse Chateauneuf du Pape 15 @2090, xiaduo, 260820
Domaine de la Janasse Chateauneuf du Pape 15 @2090, xiaduo, 260828 — a month ago
This is an unusual CdP. In the sense that is is dark, thick and like chocolate for water.
My first of three bottles.
The nose shows a very light flaw, some soft VA, bandaid. The core is all dark currants, candied, ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, both plums-heavier black, black raspberries, hints of raspberries & wafting strawberries. Chocolate cake w/ fudge frosting, incense, black pepper, black coffee, anise to black licorice, grilled meats, crushed rocks, lime-sandstone, dry herbs with floral candied dark, red flowers with liquid violets wrapped in lavender.
The palate reveals; dark currants, candied, ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, both plums-heavier black, black raspberries, hints of raspberries, some pomegranate & wafting strawberries. Chocolate cake w/ fudge frosting, caramel, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanillin, incense, Christmas cake, red & dark cola, olive tapenade, black pepper, black coffee, anise to black licorice, smoke, grilled meats, soy sauce, crushed rocks, lime-sandstone, moist clay, dry herbs with dark, gentle dark spices, red& dark flowers with candied liquid violets wrapped in the same candied lavender, grand, round, rainfall acidity w/ a rich, lush, well balanced, nicely toned/structured, elegant finish that shows length that lasts 90-120 seconds and falls on chocolate cake, clay & spice.
Untypical for a CdP to be so thick, round, rich and a bit of wine candy.
93-95 with the meal.
Drink over the next 7-10 yrs and perhaps a couple to three yrs +. Greatly depends on storage and how you like your wines in age. — 2 months ago
We had the 2012 vintage on 9/27-28/26. A nice CndP. Scents of black fruit and the garrigue— the herbaceous scent. Medium to full bodied. Tastes of blackberry, plum, kirsch and all spice. Long finish. Tannins all smoothed out. Still a good wine. — 7 days ago
2012 robe plus foncée que 2013
Plus de corps — 8 days ago
Earthy but smooth with dark fruits. Drinks well for a 2014, very pleasant — 17 days ago
Blend of about 66% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre, and the rest a mix of permitted varieties, Medium Ruby color with aromas of ripe black fruits and earthy pepper spice. On the palate complex rich flavors of cherry and blackberry, with oak, leather, cacao and earthy spice. Full body, well balanced, fine tannins, long finish, perfect now but will last another decade. Outstanding! — 20 days ago

Jeroen Koenen
This was beautiful, yet more advanced than I hoped/thought it should be. — 2 days ago