Lee Pitofsky
Sooo seems 2010 Northern Rhône is ready! After a stunning 2010 Jamet in recent weeks I was inspired to try ‘10 Allemand. A multi-hour decant has it simply rocking, wafting distinctive, captivating Allemand aromatics of deep dark fruit, olive tapenade, charcuterie, violets and a liquid rock minerality. It’s at the point where fresh primary fruit meets the cusp of secondary, tertiary character. The palate is silky, vibrant and mineral with its structured tannins beginning to soften. I wonder how 2010 Reynard would compare. But Chaillot, with air, is most certainly ready, but of course only entering its prime drinking window. Love these wines!
Sooo seems 2010 Northern Rhône is ready! After a stunning 2010 Jamet in recent weeks I was inspired to try ‘10 Allemand. A multi-hour decant has it simply rocking, wafting distinctive, captivating Allemand aromatics of deep dark fruit, olive tapenade, charcuterie, violets and a liquid rock minerality. It’s at the point where fresh primary fruit meets the cusp of secondary, tertiary character. The palate is silky, vibrant and mineral with its structured tannins beginning to soften. I wonder how 2010 Reynard would compare. But Chaillot, with air, is most certainly ready, but of course only entering its prime drinking window. Love these wines!
9.5Lee Pitofsky
Oh boy 2010 is huge. Definitely built for the long haul but showed wonderfully nonetheless. Northern Rhône King.
Oh boy 2010 is huge. Definitely built for the long haul but showed wonderfully nonetheless. Northern Rhône King.
9.5Alex Jones
Marketing/Development Kunni/Westerly Wines
So good and deserved more time. Dark red fruit and berry, sour plum, tobacco and pencil shavings. Powerful and delicious.
So good and deserved more time. Dark red fruit and berry, sour plum, tobacco and pencil shavings. Powerful and delicious.
9.1Seth Morgen Long
Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long
Tasted blind out of a decanter, this was not budging initially and felt lean, maybe stilted, and angular next to a plush 2015 Voge St. Jo. After an hour or two, the wine started to expand, and impress. Of course, after revealing, we were all present to the majesty of Thierry’s touch. This was not as brooding and dense as I remember it, rather, it felt like the wine was reluctant to strut its stuff until we required it to. Forget about the 2010’s for awhile.
Tasted blind out of a decanter, this was not budging initially and felt lean, maybe stilted, and angular next to a plush 2015 Voge St. Jo. After an hour or two, the wine started to expand, and impress. Of course, after revealing, we were all present to the majesty of Thierry’s touch. This was not as brooding and dense as I remember it, rather, it felt like the wine was reluctant to strut its stuff until we required it to. Forget about the 2010’s for awhile.
9.5Seth Morgen Long
Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long
Badass bottle full of elegantly brooding Cornas still deep in a place of youthful backwardness. Decanting for a few hours helps shed the layers of baby fat off this and what a pleasure to drink. Only up from here.
Badass bottle full of elegantly brooding Cornas still deep in a place of youthful backwardness. Decanting for a few hours helps shed the layers of baby fat off this and what a pleasure to drink. Only up from here.
9.5Seth Morgen Long
Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long
King
King
9.4Nathan Claiborn
Boom. This business has some perks.
Boom. This business has some perks.
9.7Paul Einbund
Wine Director/Sommelier Frances
Don't drink this!!! You can open it and bask in its spectacular aromas but the palate needs a few years...but man does it smell amazing!
Don't drink this!!! You can open it and bask in its spectacular aromas but the palate needs a few years...but man does it smell amazing!
9.6Jeremiah Allen
Syrah, like it should be.
Syrah, like it should be.
9.3Jeremiah Allen
Allemand is a flower pusher
Allemand is a flower pusher
9.3WARNING: DRINKING DISTILLED SPIRITS, BEER, COOLERS, WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY INCREASE CANCER RISK, AND, DURING PREGNANCY, CAN CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS.