Bryan Deleu St Joseph Exorde 2022
Tasting Note
'It has been a year since I last tasted the excellent 2022s from Bryan Deleu. Readers may recall that his Saint-Joseph “Exorde” bottling is made from two vineyards, with seventy percent of the blend hailing from forty year-old syrah vines in the village of Malleval and the remainder of the blend from the neighboring village of Serrières. The bunches are completely destemmed and the wine is raised in a combination of older demi-muids and foudres. Today, the wine offers up a superb aromatic constellation of dark berries, cassis, pepper, espresso, black olive, stony soil tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and shows outstanding depth of gently sappy black fruit, with superb soil signature and grip, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, beautifully balanced and gently chewy finish. With a passing year in bottle, the wine seems to have added a bit more structure and even better soil undertow than was the case in its youth. This is an outstanding young Saint-Joseph, but I would opt to give it a handful of years in the cellar to properly soften up its tannins before having at it in earnest. I clearly underestimated this wine a touch last year. 2030-2055+'
92/100 John Gilman
92/100 John Gilman
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Specifications
| Region | Rhone |
| Sub-region | St Joseph |
| Producer | Bryan Deleu |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Size (Volume) | Bottle |
| Bond Status | In Bond |