2015 Saint-Joseph
France
Saint Joseph
Northern Rhône
Red
Syrah
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2021 - 2027
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As I was tasting through this domain’s 2015s with Alexis Gerin, he commented that while this is undoubtedly one of the great vintages of recent decades, “it was difficult to keep the wines elegant. Power and concentration were easy, but not finesse.” While these ‘15s are typically Gerin in character, with lush fruit leading the way, they also possess the structure to age. Gerin admitted that northern Rhône Syrahs are, by their nature, always going to be on the wild, bold side, which is why the Gerins destem all of their fruit. “The power is there naturally and we don’t see a reason to push it any farther with stem tannins or too much extraction,” he told me. There’s always a good amount of new oak in play here but Alexis said that experience has taught him that “if you wait for the wines to be truly mature, as in after at least a decade in bottle, the oak will fold into the wines’ fruit. Of course a young wine can show a lot of oak; that shouldn’t be a surprise. But if a mature one is still showing it, that’s different.”
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