Mark Mannebach

9.0

Cranberry with hints of blueberry. Some notes of minerality. Nice and smooth. — 5 months ago

Joel Dieleman

9.5

Aroma and taste smash you in the face with berries, strawberries, raspberries, lemon zest. It comes across jammy and finishes smoothly with some spice and tannins. Pairs great with light meat or a fine cigar. — 4 years ago

Laura Adams

9.5

Wowza .... so smooth and lovely with carrot black truffle appetizer. — 6 years ago

Rob

9.2

Even better the second day! — 8 years ago

Jonathan Pytko

9.2

Day 2 is where it’s at — 8 years ago

Shay A

9.3

Pleasantly surprised by this! Jessup is a household favorite for their everyday drinkers (check out their zin), but after having their ‘10 Vineyard O Cab last month, I wanted to try this in comparison. This is MUCH better. The Vineyard O Cab was so chewy and disjointed. However, this seems to be peaking. Sweet nutmeg, blueberry pie and birch wood on the nose. Full bodied and a killer mid palate through the finish after an hour of being open. Rush of blue and black fruits, plum, cassis, lavender and vanilla. Glad to have another one of these. — 9 years ago

Shay A

9.3

It's a good week when I get to have two bottles of Jessup wine! Their Manny's blend, which isn't produced every year, is always absolutely divine. This isn't a thinking person's wine, it's just 100% pure delicious. Blackberry and floral on the nose. Toasted oak, blueberry pie, vanilla, lavender. Medium tannins. Velvet texture. Plum finish. This and Jessup's Zin are ordered by the case at our house with good reason. Happy Mother's Day! — 9 years ago

Stefan Dolhain

9.6

2018 vintage. Mainly Cabernet Sauvignon (95%), with Cabernet Franc (4%) and Petit Verdot. I am grateful to have met Kandice and Mark Jessup here in Blaye and taste their wines. Impressive aromatics, a panoply of black fruits, dark chocolate, and Pauillac-like lead pencil (Lynch-Bages comes to mind). Impeccable balance of succulent fruit, high quality tannins and fresh acidity. Intense, profound and very long. Amazing wine and very good value for Napa (about 105 $). Abv. 14,8%. — 2 years ago

Jeff S

10

Fruit forward and very dry! Fantastically smooth! I want more! — 5 years ago

Shay A

9.2

Monthly WTF group recap. Theme this month was “bring something special”. Normally we taste all of the wines blind, but we decided to do a relaxed night with amazing wines at a great restaurant. Spectacular evening!

Notes are consistent with when I had this back in May. Candied and ripe showing graham cracker slathered in blackberry jam accompanied by cherry liqueur. Typical zin sweetness with only a hint of age to it. Fun and enjoyable Napa example. Thanks @Steve Bolger . — 7 years ago

with Michael, Andrew and 8 others

Shay A

9.2

My notes from the ‘14 vintage I had earlier in the year are basically identical. Alcohol was a bit more pronounced here so it came across more hot (probably due to age...ABVs were the same).

Not my normal style of wine, but it’s nice to have a fruit forward wine ever so often. One of those wines that I’m scoring on how “good” it is/easy to drink as opposed to analyzing and critiquing. One of my wife’s favorites.

Zinfandel/petite sirah Blend. Blackberry and floral on the nose. Toasted oak, blueberry pie, vanilla, lavender. Medium tannins. Velvet texture. Baking spices and nutmeg finish with a touch of heat. Probably couldn’t tell this blind vs their zin. — 8 years ago

Michael Faddis

10

So good. Smooth with a sweet undertone. Delicious. — 9 years ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.2

Impressive and powerful. Has years to go. — 9 years ago

Tawnya Horton

9.4

2014, nice aftertaste — 9 years ago

Mark Mannebach

9.2

Complex with tones plum cigar and dark chocolate. — 2 years ago

yan ho

9.6

ct 5.15.23 — 3 years ago

Mark Mannebach

9.1

Well balanced and not to strong in your face wine. Very good Sauv Blanc — 5 years ago

Shay A

9.2

Monthly WTF wine group meet up. No true theme this month. Some wines tasted blind.

This wasn’t served blind. Always have a special place in my heart for Jessup wines...one of the first wineries I ever visited. Aromatically, pipe tobacco mixed with older and ripe black cherry. Soft with minimal tannin structure...blackberry, plum & clay. Thanks @Steve Bolger — 7 years ago

with Steve, Jack and 3 others

Kimberly Anderson

9.2

Cherry and black plum notes. dark chocolate, cherry and firm tannins. Not quite as refined as previous years, but still really nice. — 8 years ago

with Chad

Shay A

9.1

We love Jessup at our house. To me, Jessup is one of those wineries that does every varietal well, and they do a ton of varietals. Zin may be the best in the valley, their cabs and merlot are solid & their top tier cab blend and Merlot blend and stellar. This Rougette wine is brand new, so I had to try.

100% Grenache. The color is fairly dark as I believe they let the Grenache rest on petit Verdot skins for a time. This wine looks, smells and initially mimics a Russian River Valley Pinot. Very ruby red with a thin colored core. Aromatics of red gummy bears, strawberry O candies, rhubarb, herbal funk. After about 30mins, a candied almond note came out. Very crisp acidity at the front palate. Finish has cedar alongside cola and black cherry. On day 2, this smoothed out quite a bit and had more of those fleshy fruit skin notes and the acidity wasn't as prevalent.

A nice play on Grenache but this needs time. A Grenache for RRV Pinot lovers! — 9 years ago