Jamet Côte-Rôtie 2019

98 points Matt Walls (Decanter): "Jean-Paul Jamet said '2019 gave wines in the style that I like to make'. A step up from the 2018 vintage, the 2019 is more vibrant and intense. A blend of 25 parcels, amounting to 17ha, almost exclusively on schist soils. No destemming. A tasting of nine different barrels across a variety of lieux-dits suggest that the 2019 Côte-Rôtie is very special indeed. This is vibrant and intense, but not as sunny as the 2018 in style - sugars and phenolics progressed at the same gradual rate in 2019, making for a more harmonious and balanced wine. You feel the hot vintage in the wine, but it's represented more as power and intensity than hot alcohol. Vivid and highly impressive. Drinking Window: 2022-2045. (Oct 2020)"

98 points Falstaff Guide: "Menthol and sour cherry on the nose, juniper, leather and peppery terroir notes. In the mouth, the wine starts mild and oily, reveals buttery, yet dense tannins in the middle of the palate, behind the plump, almost creamy structure rolls a tactile minerality of great urgency, then the ethereal, spicy, balsamic varietal aromas fan out. Charm and depth! (10/7/22)"

95-98 points Jeb Dunnuck: "Scheduled to be bottled shortly after my visit, the 2019 Côte Rôtie has gorgeous, floral nuances that give way to more peppery, meaty, gamey notes that are the hallmark of this wonderful estate. Medium to full-bodied, it has considerable elegance and finesse on the palate (Jean-Paul compares this to his 2001 and 2007), silky tannins, and a beautiful finish. It’s going to have some up-front appeal as well as a broad drink window. (2/16/22)"

96 points La Revue du Vin de France: "The reds, vinified from whole clusters and matured with precision, are impressive... full-bodied, ashy and juicy. The Cote-Rotie wines shine with intensity and will make great bottles within 10 years. (2023)"

94-96 points Josh Raynolds (Vinous): "A complex, assertively perfumed bouquet evokes smoky, mineral-accented blackberry, cherry, olive, violet candy and cracked pepper. Sweet, focused and penetrating on the palate, offering intense black and blue fruit, floral pastille and cola flavors that steadily flesh out with aeration. The smoke and floral notes come back emphatically on a strikingly long, smooth finish that's given shape by fine-grained, slowly mounting tannins. (May 2020)"

***** John Livingstone-Learmonth (The Cradle of The Rhône): "(from mainly northern sector sites near Ampuis, 5-40% destemmed according to vintage quality, 18-21 day vinification, pumping overs on whole bunch crop, cap punching on destemmed grapes, aged 20% new, 80% 2-10 year 550 and 228-litre oak casks 22 months, unfined, unfiltered, 30,000 b). ***** and not far off ****** Jean-Paul went round and prepared this blend for me, cask by cask: dark robe; has a big, screaming nose, off we go, layers of black fruit in the aroma, violet-floral, French Zan licorice airs. It’s really striking, a big start, lingers well. The palate opening is bountiful – you can chomp away on this, it delivers surges of fruit hither and thither, is really impressive and resounding, the length great. This is max wine, full of inner energy and éclat, an en direct from the schist feel to it. The tannins are dark, ripe, moulded. This is close the Brune in quality, which is pretty rare. “The August rain allowed tannic ripeness, and avoided a degree that marked the wine; it’s fresh, dynamic, the roots of the vines are talking,” J-P Jamet. 14°. From 2029. 2055-57 June 2021."