Les Jalets Crozes Hermitage Syrah

2022 Independence Day Party 🇺🇲 with several members of our Tastevin crew and extended friends.🍷 Proof that our palates are wider than Burgundy. Notes may be light, scores will be honest.

1500ml

An intoxicating nose - savoury earthy and mineral with spicy black fruits. The medium bodied palate shows black plums - flesh and skins, a note of liquorice finishing with fine gravelly tannins. Barb was convinced this was Australian when tasted blind. Similar notes 16 weeks later on 8th October 2022. Black fruits and liquorice. Classic northern Rhone descriptors of black pepper and hints of dried meat. A typical Crozes. Had my 2nd last bottle on 22nd February 2023. This had lost a lot of its early fruit and had an astringent note. I noticed on the back label it “Best enjoyed within 5 years “ which I hadn’t noticed before. Turns out that was good advice. Have my last bottle later in 2023. 86 points on latest showing.

A true beauty. Ripe red fruit and almost-baked black fruits. Classic Syrah bacon and leather, and lovely violets both fresh and dried. Red fruits present themselves on the palate, as acidity elevates this beautiful 100% Syrah.

Always a sucker for a Crozes Hermitage, especially when in France and the French charcuterie comes out with multiple pork and goose terrines and mousses. The acidic Syrah and touch of white pepper cut on the fat and enhance the méat’s flavors.

Love it on the nose and unemotional on the palate and somewhat evolved (weird I know) on the palate. Nose: violets, blueberries, smoky meat Palate: dry with sensations of earth and mushrooms that don’t jazz me. #crozeshermitage

Had with lamb, was delicious. Pepper, Boysenberry, herbs, licorice, fennel, soy sauce, silky tannins and balancing acid.

2017 vintage. Textbook Crozes-Hermitage. Bright black fruit and vivid Northern Rhône Syrah acidity. Finishes with an attractive peppery punch. Great evolution in the glass. A versatile food wine too. Terrific value at less than 15 euros. Abv. 13,5 %.

Solid #syrah with #gamey touches and that sort of lavender black olive spice with potential for bottle aging. Very pleasant. #rhone #hermitage #crozeshermitage

Deep Ruby with developing aromas of black fruit, toasty smoky oak and cracked black pepper. On the palate this full body shows flavors of black cherry and blackberry with notes of dried fruits, cacao and meaty spice. Vivid acidity with pointed full tannins ending with fruit and toasty oak. Very Nice, set down for a few years.

Oh yeah. Classic Crozes. In a floral and spicy style, but with concentration.