2019 St Joseph Les Grisieres
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Shimmering ruby. Mineral-accented cherry and cassis scents are complemented by suggestions of smoky bacon, licorice and pungent flowers. Well-concentrated but surprisingly lively on the palate, offering pliant red and blue fruit preserve, spicecake, cola and salty olive flavors that slowly firm up and become sweeter with air. Finishes impressively long, sappy and precise, with juicy acidity adding lift and cut to the blue fruit-driven, youthfully tannic finish. Made with 20% whole clusters.
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The old vine cuvée, the 2019 Saint Joseph Les Grisières sees a slightly longer élevage in barrel. It’s up with the finest wines I’ve tasted from Perret and has classic Saint Joseph earthy, mineral-laced dark fruits as well as ground pepper, leather, and some meatiness. Medium to full-bodied and perfectly balanced, with gorgeous tannins, it too is ideal for drinking over the coming 10-12 years and will certainly evolve for longer.
Even more concentrated than the 2018 version, Perret's 2019 Saint Joseph les Grisieres boasts smoky, spicy aromas set against a backdrop of black cherries and black olives to create a complex, savory whole. Full-bodied and plush in feel, with a long, velvety finish and ample richness, it's nearly approachable now and should still be going strong in 2030.
Ripe, intensely perfumed dark fruit, licorice, olive paste and cracked pepper aromas, along with an exotic pit fruit note that emerges slowly. Sappy and energetic on the palate, offering alluringly sweet red and blue fruit, candied violet and spicecake flavors braced by an undercurrent of smoky minerality. Closes extremely long and precise, with repeating floral and mineral qualities and talc-y, slowly mounting tannins. This is shaping up to be a really outstanding wine and one that I'd love to see poured alongside some upper-tier Côte-Rôties.