Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
93
/100
Reviews
10
professional
Vintages
1
2016
Other
93/100
Syrah
NV
Community Reviews
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93.0
Avg Score
96
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Taster #0104
· Jun 26, 2024
92/100
Pomegranate, fresh and gamey with graphite, powerful dark plums with brett and sweaty leather hints. Expects a bit more mid-palate richness.
2016 vintage
Taster #0664
· Jun 17, 2024
94/100
94 is my objective score, but after 4 goes with this wine over the last 2 years, it's a 98 in my personal playbook. It's the quintessential Syrah, black olive, black raspberry, blood and iron ore, feeling at once enveloping in its darkness and yet electric in its execution. One of those rare wines where the omission of sulfur magnifies its purity and precision rather than obscuring it.
2016 vintage
Taster #2196
· Jun 14, 2024
93/100
Beautiful Syrah, olive, dark fruit. Very nice.
2016 vintage
Taster #2196
· Oct 11, 2023
93/100
A notch better than the 16 Bassenon tasted last week. A little cleaner and with more depth of fruit. Really nice bottle of syrah.
2016 vintage
Taster #6535
· Aug 29, 2022
93/100
Blood, barnyard, bramble fruit, begging for food.
2016 vintage
Taster #1438
· Nov 15, 2021
High-toned, giving nose. Some olive and meat notes, but the dark berry fruit really stands out here. I kept coming back to this again and again.
2016 vintage
Taster #1423
· Nov 12, 2021
deep purple/red color, on the nose saddle leather and black raspberries, gravel textures, clove, chocolate, on the palate ripe and forward, the primary fruit profile mirroring the nose, very good length with some pepper and dark spice on the finish, begs for a meal- a compliment in my book. (***)+. 2026++
2016 vintage
Taster #9061
· Sep 25, 2021
95/100
Expressive C-R aromas with bacon, leather and black olives. Concentrated and hefty on the palate, with cool fruit and forest berries. Very primary. Needs time.
2016 vintage
Taster #7488
· Aug 30, 2021
Has the gamey, bacon, olive notes. had the dark fruit profile. Balanced acidity. Tasty stuff!
2016 vintage
Taster #8574
· Jun 18, 2021
Fresh and pure Syrah in a “natural style”. Totally delicious but not worth the hype or price these get. Tastes like a natural Syrah that costs 1/4 the price.
2016 vintage
Taster #5261
· Dec 22, 2020
92/100
Year-End Wine Dinner @ GWC!: The 2016 Tupin and Bassenon were served side by side. Black fruits, spices, bacon, leather. Powerful and rich. Still very young though; needs at least 8 - 10 years IMO. Hold
2016 vintage
Taster #7568
· Dec 22, 2020
96/100
During a year end wine dinner. Tasted blind. 2016 Bassenon and Tupin were served as a pair. What a treat, very young but the 2016 vintage already showed its class with fine structure, polished tanins and very pronounced animalic aromatics around leather, meat, bacon, red and dark fruit, musk, clay. The Bassenon being more feminin, higher pitched and the Tupin with more structure, dark fruit and tobacco. Both impressive, the Bassenon likely to drink a few years earlier but give …
2016 vintage
Taster #0121
· Feb 26, 2020
87/100
Quite green and stemy I found - nice fruit but still to heavy tannins - maybe was too early to open
2016 vintage
Taster #8081
· Jan 21, 2020
Obviously young, but wanted to check in on a bottle in the name of science, especially after a recent questionable bottle of the '14. This is clean and pure, dark fruit forward, medium-plus density, and somewhat polished. Will be interesting to follow over the years. Try again in 5+ years.
2016 vintage
Taster #1438
· Dec 9, 2019
Popped and poured. Great from the get go. Elegant, complex and delicious. First time having this producer and I’m impressed. Seems like it will age very well.
2016 vintage
Taster #2364
· Oct 22, 2019
This is just not my taste, so I'm not scoring it. It's an effervescent, carbonic take on Syrah which just doesn't mesh with the dark, ashen, leathery body and flavor of this wine. If you like crunchy, fresh Syrah whose fruit takes a backseat to its earthiness, then by all means...
2016 vintage
Taster #2627
· Sep 29, 2019
95/100
What a seamless wine. 1.5hr decant. Super elegant, clean perfect with lamb. JMS continues to shatter expectations
2016 vintage