2019 Crozes Hermitage Le Clos
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Inky ruby color. Intensely perfumed dark berry, floral and spice qualities on the mineral-driven nose. Stains the palate with appealingly sweet cherry-cola, black raspberry and candied violet flavors that are sharpened by a spicy suggestion of freshly cracked pepper. Smoothly melds depth and energy and finishes extremely long and precise, with slowly emerging tannins and resonating floral and mineral notes.
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Alistair Cooper MW, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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A smaller production release, the 2019 Crozes-Hermitage Le Clos hails from the Les Saviots lieu-dit and was brought up mostly in neutral oak. It's a denser, more closed wine offering serious aromatics of ripe black and blue fruits, scorched earth, graphite, and saddle leather, with an almost Hermitage-like sense of meatiness and power. Full-bodied and concentrated on the palate, with notable purity, it has some background oak, ripe tannins, good freshness, and a great finish. It needs to be forgotten for at least 3-4 years and will keep for well over a decade. It's a brilliant wine.
The 2019 Crozes Hermitage le Clos managed to escape hail damage but remains an intense, concentrated effort. Hints of violets and garrigue appear on the nose alongside cassis and black cherries, while the full-bodied palate is supple, leading into a long, licorice-tinged finish. Drink it over the next decade or so. Tasted twice (once blind), with consistent notes.
100% Syrah. Aged for 10–14 months in old oak. Cask sample. Tasted blind. Very smoky, backwards, reductive nose. Very rich and ripe fruits, a charred-meat note and a broad expansive palate – not the freshest. (AC)