2014 Château de Saint Cosme Gigondas Les Claux
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(one-third new oak) Saturated ruby. A complex, expansive bouquet evokes ripe red and blue fruits, sandalwood, succulent herbs and potpourri. Sweet, seamless and penetrating in the mouth, offering energetic black raspberry, boysenberry and vanilla flavors that are sharpened by an energizing mineral quality and a white pepper flourish. Finishes impressively long and spicy; sneaky tannins lend shape and youthful grip. This wine sure doesn't come off as one from a tough vintage.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Josh Raynolds
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One of the wines of the vintage from Gigondas, and I think the most complete of the three single vineyard releases from Saint Cosme, the 2014 Gigondas le Claux sports a medium ruby, semi-transparent color to go with a Pinot Noir-like bouquet of camphor, sweet cherries, dried flowers, forest floor and lots of minerality. Rich, medium to full-bodied, layered and with a terrific mid-palate and core of fruit, it won't be the longest-lived example of this cuvee, yet my money's on it drinking beautifully for at least another 8-10 years.
Vivid ruby-red. Highly perfumed red fruit liqueur, potpourri and Asian spice scents show impressive clarity and vivacity. Sappy, tangy and precise, offering lively raspberry and floral pastille flavors and a touch of spicecake. Closes on a smoky mineral note, displaying superb focus, silky tannins and emphatic, floral-driven persistence.
Tasted blind. Cask sample. Quite dark crimson. Dense and polished. Tastes as though there is some Syrah here but in fact it is mainly very old Grenache from a nineteenth-century vineyard. Savoury. (JR)