J. Dénuzière Crozes Hermitage 2018, Ac
Critic Reviews (3)
More and more the bottles of Crozes-Hermitage arrive on VINTAGES shelves and if consumers have yet to get woke it’s...
From a small, traditional family domain in a hot year, this 100% syrah shows a very ripe nose of kirsch, plum jam,...
Dense, dark and very ripe in the style of the 2018 vintage, this is a tightly knit, vanilla-inflected Crozes with...
Community Reviews (2)
The medium+ intensity nose seems a bit shy, but offers dark fruited aromas of black and blueberry alongside white pepper spice, wood, and touches of floral. It's medium+ bodied with good fruit concentration on the palate and fruit forward flavours of dark berry and blackberry joined by savoury, earthy, white pepper spice, and wood notes supported by fresh acidity and refined, dusty-textured tannins. Lovely floral notes emerge on the mid-palate and linger to the stony mineral finish, with excellent length. Tasted May/2021.
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This was a good wine but not as complexed as I was expecting. Notes of black fruit, pepper and a bit of wood. Nice dark fruit flavours. It was interesting to taste how much the tannins have calmed after a year and a half since the last reviews. I found the tannins were at a very nice level.
Throughout the evening, I did not notice any change in this wine, so I see no reason to decant.
Tasted November 2022