2015 - Saint-Joseph Le Paradis Saint Pierre, Coursodon

(from vines more than 60 years old; aged in barriques, 80 percent of them new, for 15 months) Bright violet. Primary cherry, cassis, pungent flowers and olive on the highly perfumed nose, accompanied by hints of cracked pepper and licorice in the background. Sweet and seamless in texture, offering concentrated black and blue fruit and spicecake flavors that unfold slowly with aeration. In a powerful but lively style and extremely youthful now. Aeration brings up vanilla and floral pastille qualities that carry through the very long, velvety, subtly tannic finish, which leaves behind a sweet dark berry note.