Clos des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2020 Magnum

The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape was brilliant and is certainly one of the stars of the vintage. Based on 55% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre and the rest Syrah and other permitted grape varieties, it shines with elegance and purity, offering a wonderful core of red and black fruits, medium to full body, silky and incredibly polished tannins, seamless balance and already complex notes of flowers, sappy garrigue and Provençal spices. It possesses the domaine's incredible ability to bring wonderful intensity and richness while remaining graceful and fluid. It reminds me slightly of the 2012, or even the 2006, and although it's already very pleasant, it will evolve for over 20 years in cold cellars... Jeb Dunnuck