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2010 Crozes-Hermitage, Domaine de Thalabert, Paul Jaboulet Aîné, Rhône

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Syrah
Ready, but will keep
Robert Parker
93/100
Robert Parker
93/100
Product: 20108013987
2010 Crozes-Hermitage, Domaine de Thalabert, Paul Jaboulet Aîné, Rhône

Description

Fruits of the forest, brambly blackberry fruit with sweet finishing notes of Blueberry and Cassis show on the very attractive nose of this Crozes Hermitage. There is also a hint of oak/wood smoke in the distant background that knits the nose beautifully together. After such a sensual nose, the palate certainly does not disappoint - the core of fruit is full, juicy and balanced perfectly by a wonderful sappy acidity. A savoury note of black pepper and pain grille leads onto a long length. A beautiful, rich and punchy Crozes but with the balance (so characteristic of Jaboulet) of acidity to show real class. Just about drinking now, it will benefit from a year longer before showing its best 2014-2016.
Stuart Rae, Private Account Manager
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2010
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready, but will keep
Grape List Syrah
Body Full Bodied
Producer Jaboulet

Critics reviews

Robert Parker 93/100
The 2010 Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert, which I raved about last year, is slightly better than their brilliant 2009. It boasts a dense purple color along with a beautiful perfume of camphor, licorice, forest floor, black currants and Christmas fruitcake. With tremendous intensity, full body and supple tannins, it should drink well for 10-15 years, perhaps longer where well-stored. This cuvee is always one of the best buys in the Northern Rhone.Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 27/12/2012
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Dec 2012)
Robert Parker 93/100
The 2010 Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert, which I raved about last year, is slightly better than their brilliant 2009. It boasts a dense purple color along with a beautiful perfume of camphor, licorice, forest floor, black currants and Christmas fruitcake. With tremendous intensity, full body and supple tannins, it should drink well for 10-15 years, perhaps longer where well-stored. This cuvee is always one of the best buys in the Northern Rhone. Robert M. Parker - Wine Advocate #204 -Dec 2012 Also outstanding, the 2010 Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert is slightly less opulent and more delineated than the 2009. It possesses flowery, black and red fruit notes intermixed with notions of licorice and earth, fresh acids, medium to full body, beautiful fruit, purity and texture, and more minerality than its older sibling. It should drink well for 10-15 years. One needs no further evidence of the extraordinary turn around in the quality of the Jaboulet wines than what proprietress Caroline Frey has accomplished in 2009 as well as 2010. As I indicated last year, this is one of the great qualitative turn arounds in the wine world. It is welcomed by all wine lovers given the historic legacy of the wines of Jaboulet and the importance of this famous firm in all of France. Ms. Frey, who is also responsible for the brilliant wines produced at La Lagune in Bordeaux, has reduced the amount of new oak for the red wines to about 20% and to negligible proportions for the whites. robert_parker - Wine Advocate #198 Dec 2011
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Dec 2011)

About this wine

Syrah/Shiraz

A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries. It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness. South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
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Jaboulet

Paul Jaboulet Aîné is an iconic producer in the Rhône Valley. Founded in 1834 by Antoine Jaboulet (father of Paul), it was Paul’s son Louis and grandson Gérard who can be heralded among the great ambassadors for both the region and the négociant. Upon Gérard’s untimely death in 1997, the business began struggling and was sold to the Frey family in 2005.
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