Domaine Jolivet

St Joseph, L'Instinct, 2019

Name: St Joseph, L'Instinct
Brand: Domaine Jolivet
Price: 164.42 GBP

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2019
75cl
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£26.40
2019
6x75cl
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£158.42
2019
3x1.5L
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£164.42

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Lovely layered aromatics, a dark but fresh bramble perfume with a hint of spice. More tight-knit on the palate, very tannic but super silky, closed and tense yet with flow and clar, fresh fruit. This will need time to unwind but the class is there to see. Intense but composed dark cassis fruit with a hint of liqueur black pepper, and dried herb. The warmth of the vintage has been well tempered and controlled here. St Joseph of proper density and complexity. Built to last. A blend of 10, predominantly east-facing, St Joseph parcels in St Jean de Muzols – one of the renowned, original St Joseph villages, situated in the southern part of the appellation. The components of the final blend are all vinified separately and fermented with between 25-70% whole bunches depending on the plot. Aged for 14 months in barriques and larger demi-muids barrels with very little new wood.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

92/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Opaque ruby. Displays ripe black and blue fruit and smoked meat scents, along with smoky mineral, licorice and potpourri accents. Fleshy and appealingly sweet, offering juicy, mineral- and spice-tinged black raspberry and mulberry flavors and a touch of smoky bacon. Gently chewy tannins frame a broad, smoky finish that echoes the licorice and floral notes.

drinking window 2025 - 2033

date of review 12/2022

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.