2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  4/24/2024 - ERU wrote: 93 Points

  What? What’s that, I said I would hold off on my 2016 CdPs until at least 2025? Here is a truth about me: I often lie to myself. There you have it.
  
  Decanted four hours. Great wine. Nose of black and red, sparkly fruits. Peppercorn! Deep. Palate of freshly ground peppercorns, those red fruits kicking and savory herbs. The heat on the wine is not unnoticeable but also not distracting. I wonder if I became more sensitive to it when I almost had it come out my nose from reacting to perhaps one of the all-time standout lines in a work of history I’ve ever read. Let’s just say it’s not every day one learns of a seminal moment in history that involves a timely horse neigh brought on by an expertly scented hand. I digress.
  
  Now, I really, really am going to wait on my other bottles. Now is the time for patience so that some humdinger-y evolution can happen. This is in that glorious window for which we all aim. Praise Bacchus.
  
  

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  4/14/2024 - RoelD Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This undeservedly less known domain is located in the Northern Orange-sector of the appellation. All their wines, including their generic Côtes du Rhône, are of very high quality. This is one of their top-cuvées made from old vine (often>100 years) Grenache (80%) and Mourvèdre (20%). After destemming the wine is fermented in concrete tanks and aged for 12 months in vats and smaller barriques. As far as I know no new oak is used.
  This wine is still extremely young and dominated by the Mourvèdre with an opaque purple-red color with on the nose and the palate blackberries,black currants, licorice and beefstock-umami, a lot of ripe tannins,certainly no shortage of acidity and a lingering finish. Although the 15% alcohol is well integrated I recommend to serve this wine slightly fresher (14°C).
  This is a very fine wine that will gain complexity over the next 5 years.

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  10/21/2023 - ERU Likes this wine:

  Decanted 4 hours. Nose is licorice, cherries, baking spice and even a little blood. Palate is pepper, licorice, more pepper and red fruit. The tannins are so grippy that the next sips were only giving up red twizzlers. Then that’s all I could taste or smell, so set glass aside for two hours. This helped. Last sip was the best with the spice and exotic earthy stuff coming. More cellar time! 2025+. Looking forward to it: possible 95.

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  9/29/2019 - Harley1199 wrote:

  By the glass. How to chew peppercorns. Modern with black cherries and plums on the nose. Fully structured, tannic and at the same time lacking the necessary acidity. For a soon consumption if you like this kind of things.
  
  Servido por copas. Como masticar granos de pimienta. Moderno con ciruelas picotas y ciruelas en nariz. Totalmente estructurado, tánico y al mismo tiempo falto de la necesaria acidez. Para un pronto consumo si es que te gustan este tipo de cosas.

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  4/13/2019 - srh wrote:

  Winebar [4 Whites, 8 Reds, & 6 *shared* bottles] from 04/12/19 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): 80% Grenache & 20% Mourvèdre from the lieux-dits of Bois Lauzon, Cabrières, & la Gardiole; Typically, destemmed, 30-35 day concrete vat vinification, pumping overs, hand cap punchings, ff'd by aging for 12 mos, this vintage 80% in vat;
  
  N: Slightly closed; Very RIPE with notes of smoke; Intensity lurking
  
  P: Med body; Rndish entry with NICE, almost swtish frt met by an astringent pucker which transitions into a LONG finish with a tangy/swtness to the dusty tannins. NEEDS through '20, poss longer, then making its 10th. For me this is JUST *big*, RIPE, lacking "cut"/"life", & in a certain sense, vitality. Also, 2 more experienced tasters than I independently mentioned heat. 15% ABV; My VG+/EXC-, though IF this is your style, I've HORRIBLY underrated it. 98 pts Dunnuck, 96 Platter's Wine Guide, 92-94 Vinous (Raynolds), 91 WA, 15.5/20 (cask) Jancis Robinson (Hemming), & 4*(*)/5 (vat/casks) drinkrhone.com ! [I'd have to say this vendor's $99.95, though as good as any on wine-searcher, is still *poor* QPR based upon the nature of the wine itself.]

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