Gonon, Pierre
Rhone, France
Saint-Joseph
Les Oliviers
Blend
2014
$58.99
14.0%
Youthful brownish touch to the straw gold, dilute rims. A bit of fart in the nose then oak cream, blanched nuts, lemon curd and cantaloupe, apple, apricot fruit scents, waxy ending with expected bluntness. Full-bodied in a broad but not deep manner, waxy yet here also more honeyed and sugary, no lack of residual sugar to it. Consistent orange to tangerine citrus, nutty with periodic nuances of wet wool. More melon, apple, pear to apricot fruit, nothing unusual. The acidity is actually pretty good yet cannot prevent a flat mouth feel. No "wow" factor today but these are typically wines which need age to best strut their stuff. 80% Marsanne, 20% Roussanne.
88 points