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ESTATE PRICE! The wine in three words : Fresh Mineral Lively Tasting notes : Wine with a pale gold color on bright reflections with green and silver nuances. The freshness emanates from the visual. A fine and discreet nose which opens quickly on aromas of white flowers, citrus fruits, peach, apricot. Mineral on aeration. Supple and honeyed on white fruit...
ESTATE PRICE! The wine in three words : Round Mineral Lively Tasting notes : The cuvée 'Les Caillottes' of the Domaine du Bouchot is a Pouilly Fumé with a nose of passion fruit, clementine, gunflint... On the palate a magnificent fruit expresses itself under a chalky minerality. The terroir of chalky pebbles gives this sauvignon fatness and tension,...
ESTATE PRICE! Similar to Beaucastel’s top cuvée, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Tintot is a Mourvèdre-dominated (there’s 15% Grenache) behemoth that's going to require bottle age. Cured meats, toasted spice, graphite, and leafy herbs all flow to a thick, rich, powerful wine that has building tannins and a great, great finish. I suspect this puppy will...
ESTATE PRICE! The 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Cuvée Du Quet checks in as 80% Grenache and 20% Mourvèdre brought up mostly in concrete, yet with 10% in old barrels. It's another heavenly, monster of a wine from this estate that boasts a dense ruby/plum color as well as a kaleidoscopic array of red and black fruits, Provençal garrigue, ground pepper, cured...
ESTATE PRICE! Similarly colored to the classic cuvée, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Quet is 80% Grenache and 20% Mourvèdre. It offers a huge, rich, powerful style that never goes over the top and stays balanced and graceful. Currants, toasted spices, caramelized beef, and exotic notes all flow to a massively textured, powerhouse of a wine that has a...
ESTATE PRICE! Similar to Beaucastel’s top cuvée, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Tintot is a Mourvèdre-dominated (there’s 15% Grenache) behemoth that's going to require bottle age. Cured meats, toasted spice, graphite, and leafy herbs all flow to a thick, rich, powerful wine that has building tannins and a great, great finish. I suspect this puppy will...
ESTATE PRICE! Lastly, the inky colored 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape Tintot (85% Mourvèdre, and 15% Grenache) offers up a deep, powerful bouquet of black cherries, blackcurrants, medicinal herbs, cured meats, and licorice. Powerful, full-bodied, and incredibly concentrated on the palate, it has beautiful depth of fruit, loads of spicy, meaty Mourvèdre...
ESTATE PRICE! The wine in three words : Strong Length Concentrated Tasting notes of Jeb Dunnuck : Jeb Dunnuck "One of the strongest wines in the vintage is the 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape from Vincent Avril. This beauty has everything you could ask for. As with the 2018, the blend is heavily shifted toward Mourvèdre, and it offers a mammoth bouquet of...
ESTATE PRICE! Being bottled the day of my visit, the 2019 Châteauneuf-du-Pape checks in as a blend of 30% Mourvèdre, 30% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the rest a mix of permitted varieties. It offers a ripe, sexy, rounded style that quickly shows more structure, minerality, and tannin with time in the glass. Blackberries, blueberries,...
Also pure perfection in a glass, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Deus-Ex Machina is a 60/40 split of Grenache and Mourvèdre, from tiny yields and the famed La Crau lieu-dit, that’s raised in a mix of concrete tanks and demi-muids. My notes on this wine were loaded with expletives and finishes with “awesome, just awesome.” Blackcurrants, kirsch liqueur,...
ESTATE PRICE! Jeb Dunnuck "I was able to taste two barrels of the 2017 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Clairette Vieilles Vignes, both showing different profiles, one richer and fatter, the other fresher and more focused. Both had classic honeyed citrus and mineral aromas and flavors, some oak to integrate, terrific concentration, and a big finish. It's going to...