St-Joseph 2024: The best wines brimming with peppery spice

Clos Florentin had an incredible fragrance from barrel, peppery and distinctly floral this year. It has a satin texture and is so fine and light...

Black pepper, berry fruits and a touch of smoky bacon on the nose really makes you want to dive in. In the mouth it's light-bodied,...

Lovely fresh peppery nose, quintessentially northern Rhône. It's generously rounded but not fat on the palate, satin-textured and well balanced. Textbook stuff. So light, but...

Bright and floral style with exuberant blackberries, liquorice, hibiscus and violets. A well balanced, fresh and expressive wine. A light- to medium-bodied,expression with gentle, fine...

A tasting of the component barrels suggest that this will be a balanced, fresh and saline vintage rather than a structured or powerful one. Les...

The nose is dominated by cinnamon, nutmeg and clove oak spice. The palate is rounded, ripe, concentrated but fresh, very impressive. The fruit is ripe...

A touch of menthol and clove from the oak, which is present on the palate too, this will take a little while to integrate. It's...

Darker in fruit than some 2024s, this is introverted for now, very young. It's ripe on the palate, easy to like, welcoming and enticing. Lovely...

The nose is very promising, showing complexity already, with defined spices, smoke and berry fruits. No lack of concentration here, plenty of fruit, really mouthfilling,...

Gorgeous nose of pink and black peppercorn and raspberry. It's very juicy, showing raspberry on the palate too, and it's lifted and spicy. Good acidity,...

A pert, red-fruited style, bright and juicy, luminous raspberry flavours go long into the finish. Cedary oak helps to tuck everything in. Atypical in its...

Spicy, peppery nose with star anise and clove. Attractive freshness, subtle floral notes behind the spice and smoke. Compact, well balanced and highly drinkable style,...

A peppery nose leads to a light-bodied style, but there's no lack of intensity to the fruit. The finish is smoky, with slightly fibrous tannins....

Deep, herbal menthol freshness is followed by a lovely bright, fresh palate. There's a good sense of ripeness to the fruit and zesty acidity. No...

Touch of black pepper on the nose. This is a medium-bodied, elegant style, with a captivating texture. Fresh and well balanced, snappy and drinkable. Not...

Juicy, fresh, classic St-Joseph fruit leads to a pleasing driving mineral crunch on the long finish. Really granitic, in a lifted, crunchy style.

Beautiful nose, a dizzying array of flowers and spices, just wonderful. Light-bodied, with pink peppercorns on the palate. Just a light touch of tannin on...

Spicy, fresh and peppery aromas. Precise, mineral, slim, granitic style. Not a generously fruited St-Joseph, this is more structured, fine-boned. Light-bodied, all about texture and...

Full-bodied, rich, ripe and powerful. Tannic, punchy and concentrated for a 2024. A plush style, but not excessively oaky, that will need a while to...

Tobacco notes on the nose, then delicious generosity of texture and fresh berry fruit on the palate. Rose, raspberry, violet characters shine through. Good length....