"The Gonon brothers’ 2012 Saint-Joseph is really beginning to drink spectacularly, but has many decades of life still ahead of it. When the wine is first poured it is a tightly-knit, intensely flavored example of this utterly refined vintage in the northern Rhône, with great transparency and precision to its fruit and spice tones, but with air, it deepens, broadens out on the palate and really unfolds majestically! Eventually, the wine offers up a beautiful bouquet of black raspberries, tea-smoked duck, pepper, a touch of chocolate, black olive, a great base of stony soil tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and marvelously complex, with a great core of fruit, stunning mineral drive, ripe, modest tannins and superb length and grip on the perfectly balanced finish. This is a brilliant bottle of wine. "
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