2010 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph- France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, St. Joseph (6/28/2019)
A beguiling nose of menthol, root vegetables, black olive tapenade, dried flowers and earth. It is cool with clarity, building in the glass as it takes on air. Fruits are dark and it has terrific detail, balance and poise. There’s a fine line of acidity and length is good. Drinking right in the zone now.
I last had one of these with Charlie Fu and Ryan Curry - they loved it, I felt it was still too young. Apparently I’m wrong. Have 4 more, worth more each than I paid for those 4 together.
I had my last 2009 in March of 2018 and how I WISH this wine wasn’t the ‘new hotness’ with the price to prove it, as the 2009 was, when I had it, absolutely firing on all cylinders more than any wine I’ve had around that time. Amazing just over a year ago!
I stopped buying these after the '13 vintage as the ‘new hotness’ pricing was getting out of control. I had no idea how insane the new hotness has become, but I just checked CT and the '10s that I paid $40 for are selling at auction for $150 and the mag I purchased for $80 is going for $330…WTF?
Interesting this is approachable. I stuck mine in deep storage and I don’t think I have tried a single one. Will grab an 09 to try again. Love these wines.
Just noticed that someone is attempting to auction off a single bottle of 2007 Gonon St Joe for $750 on the K&L site. Zero bidders as I write. They also have 2017 pre-arrivals for $130 per bottle. Cheers!
Fu and others on this board have been exercising monopoly power over the market for these. By procuring pallet-sized portions when they first come out, then hyping said bottles to kingdom come, they slowly release cache after cache, but trickle them so as not to cause any market disruptions like oversupply. You can buy the vielles vignes for $750 if you’d like.