Never heard of this wine before. The wine in question is a 2006 Jean Delobre St. Joseph. Brought over by the famous John Rankin, it started off freaky but still had an identifiable classic structure. What I mean by freaky is it tasted spritzy to the max, had light almost candied fruit flavors yet also had wonderful mid-palate precision and the structure was there, albeit in an embryonic state. I knew this needed at least a couple hours to unwind into something you'd want to have with dinner. Well it did unwind into something pretty special. The nose was beautiful with all the good St. Jo. stuff. Olives, etc. The fruit started out reddish but eventually got darker and it had clay-like tannins. They were high-quality and uniformly balanced. Great acidity and a wonderful grainy texture. Kept getting better and better. This wine needed a serious decant to really strut its stuff. Seems to have the proper structure to age mid-term for ten years. Anybody heard of this producer? Came from CSW, so I can only assume the guy uses horses to plow. D-Lills was pretty dogmatic about that. He would not even taste a St. Joseph if they did not plow by horse.
Also can someone explain to me the two numbers in the reply column. No clue.
Also can someone explain to me the two numbers in the reply column. No clue.