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Gorgeous and best JJ ever. Nose is full of mid season cherries, spice, gentle wood shavings from woodshop when one was a kid. Really aromatic and alluring. Really huge spice. So so aromatic and casts a spell on you. Palate is so juicy and full of life. Sweet and sour cherry fruit and big time acids and wonderful structure and purity. This needs mega mega air. The sweetness on the finish and mid is to just die for and then gets tamed by the incredible acidity and mineral spine. — 3 days ago
Out of this world and maybe best vintage ever for this wine. Nose is so complex and aromatic. Red fruits, tobacco leaf, freshly harvested tobacco, tweed jacket, cranberry bog, wet earth and so deep. Just stunning. Floral top notes now. Just amazing. 9.7 almost 9.8 nose. The energy on the palate is just incredible. Juicy and so fine. This is like silky beyond belief and utterly fresh and complex. It’s spice silky actually. What a finish and for a wine about finesse this has an amazing amount of material and a finish that doesn’t quit. — 6 days ago
Saline and silky. Long. No formal notes. — 34 minutes ago
Blend of the 1er Crus Sur La Velle, Champs Fulliots and La Taupine. Stunning nose of buttery mineral salty apples. So much minerality. So saline and clean. Palate is rich yet bracing with awesome acidity and freshness. So pure and drinks like a great Meursault. So elegant and lingers. Top shelf. Great spice on the nose. Wet earth. Terrific. So close to 9.5. Palate is gaining complexity. — 3 days ago
This is actually the reserve which is aged in barrel longer. Stunning wine. Nose is super mineral and white cherries. Also iodine and white pepper. Some juicy peach and tangelo. Gorgeous. Palate is rich and energetic with outrageous complexity and elegance. Wow the sweet white cherries and apricots are decadent but this is linear and straight and so focused. Stunning. What a finish. These wines demand age. Will go to 9.7 and 9.8 with air. — 4 days ago
Been a very long time and this is showing so so well. Nose is mid season cherries, cranberry bog, desiccated orange rind, slate and soil tones. So deep and soulful. Palate is like a cloud. So juicy but lithe and ethereal. Really floats but has stunningly persistent acidity and such purity. Wonderful. Elegant and balanced. Gorgeous wine. Sweetened up overnight and got so much more focused. 9.3 to 9.4. — 3 days ago
Nose is honeyed and mineral. Grilled nuts. Clean. Very aromatic. Pure citrus. Grapefruit. Palate is rich, ripe and textured. Lower acid than other vintages but fresh and juicy. Not that complex now but it will come with air. Long. — 6 days ago
One of the great overlooked wines of the wine world. Nose is extraordinary. Dark berry fruit that is so fine and so clear. Tweed jacket. Licorice and minerals. Earthy. So complex and expansive. Just incredible. So defined. Some clay and graphite are coming through now. Palate is pure silken Malbec as if sent down by the Malbec Gods. Superb freshness and concentration with extremely intense minerality but not fierce. Soft but firm. Wonderful classical structure and top notch purity. There is awesome red berry fruit but needs air to come around and become fuller and more expressive. Gorgeously clear and ripe tannins. Teeming with energy. I’ll be back as it airs. Now with air the finesse kicks in and it’s just so fine. The nose gets super floral. 9.5 to 9.6. — 9 days ago
Lyle Fass
Founder Fass Selections
Best BAMA ever. Young bottle but so so good. — 33 minutes ago