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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 203 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by grossie on 2/14/2024 & rated 90 points: Drinking great right now. Unmistakably Rhone with Garrigue, earth, lots of grenache fun. Not much serious side, but it's lively and fun. Probably as good as it'll get. Drink now, I think. (532 views) | | | Tasted by ZaphodB on 2/3/2024 & rated 91 points: Deep red colour with a leather touch to it. Nose is mature with notes of leather and dried cranberries and strawberries. In mouth it's pleasant, medium bodied plus with somewhat dried out tannins, nice acidity and notes of dried cranberries and strawberries, and leather.
Fully mature Chateauneuf here, don't expect this to get any better from here. (512 views) | | | Tasted by Yannou on 1/23/2024 & rated 90 points: À boire. Très bon fruit à l’eau de vie. Pas alcoleux (278 views) | | | Tasted by sergio19 on 1/21/2024 & rated 89 points: Very good wine. Deep in the glass with generous scents: blackberry jam, cherries, black pepper, aniseed, slightly balsamic with hints of smoked ham. Tannins well integrated in a full and rounded body. In the ending good minerality and a little salty note. (541 views) | | | Tasted by Franchino on 10/25/2023 & rated 50 points: Bought it few weeks before. Put very good conditions to drink it (bringing it to room temperature since the morning, opening gently in the end of the afternoon for a nice diner with friends), it did not perform on the day, gave it other try in the following day, but was still the same. Not passed but pure emptiness.
Ended up in the sink.
Since that is a recent bottling of the wine (confirmed by the winemaker, that could have just said it was a problem with a bottle, but rather listed me the name of restaurants still buying it), was very disappointed of the quality, specifically in comparison with price paid.
Had been buying those wine since 2016 to 2021, will probably not be doing that in the future. (606 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 6/5/2023 & rated 92 points: Drinking perfectly. Mature, yet still with primary fruit, the sweet Grenache rules, sings of the land with plenty of local herbs; a claassic wine, no hurry to drink this, but drinking a point IMHO.
#cellarinventory (1646 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 4/5/2023 & rated 92 points: From MG. Doing great, fresh, vibrant, plentiful fruit, absolute Grenache here, local spise, sense of place. Drinking very well.
#G-Night#Avignon (1607 views) | | | Tasted by wwolf1 on 3/30/2023 & rated 90 points: Une belle surprise car le vin est un peu évolué mais il est resté complexe et pas écœurant comme certains. Le vin est aussi très agréable en bouche, fin. C'est joli.
15/20 (1048 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 3/17/2023: Friday Group Brown Bag Tasting (EBCC): Raisiny fruit dominates the bouquet and palate. Meh. Others will enjoy this more than me. (1262 views) | | | Tasted by #1 or #2? on 2/18/2023 & rated 90 points: colour is dark ruby and clear. nose is savoury, peppery and very herbal with a slight sweet note. palate is red berry, fresh herbs, with pepper and spice. good acidity. finishes with slight bitter almond note. (1081 views) | | | Tasted by RBurgundy99 on 1/15/2023 & rated 91 points: Drink up. Still drinking well, but not sure how much longer that will be the case. But for now this is a mature wine with soft tannins, still some good fruit and nicely in balance. (904 views) | | | Tasted by Sookin1 on 11/20/2022 & rated 85 points: Drunk with a French Cassoulet. The wine was more on the alcohol notes, less on the fruit. (948 views) | | | Tasted by vide on 4/3/2022 & rated 91 points: I read: "je ne suis pas trop amateur". Moi, non aussi. And that, of course should be Aussie. A very forward wine = musty dark nose. Actually, the wine is gong over, but you still pick up on its quality, its classic CNP balance of dark notes and depth. Another glass to go.
But what is happening in the Ukraine is making me feel sick (malade). (1528 views) | | | Tasted by Amberissey on 2/26/2022 & rated 90 points: Black and blue fruit, dark flowers, gravelly minerality, and noticeable alcohol on the nose. Nice complexity. Alcohol very well integrated on the palette. Plenty of licorice on the palette, extending to the finish. Not as much fruit, definite secondary and tertiary flavours. Intense. Excellent value, £32.50 from the excellent Bowland Forest Vintners. (1500 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 8/28/2021 flawed bottle: Brownish color. Already a quite old and very tertiary, advanced, tannins are soft. Sweet, tobacco. Rich, soft, alcoholic. May be it is the bottle or may be the ripe 2007 vintage but this showing felt more like a CdP from the 90ies. (3233 views) | | | Tasted by wwolf1 on 7/19/2021 & rated 86 points: La couleur passée indique que le vin est bien évolué. Au nez, c'est pas terrible. En bouche, pas de surprise le vin est évolué : des aromes kirchés et tout le reste... c'est pas mauvais mais très monolithique et je ne suis pas trop amateur.
13/20 (1954 views) | | | Tasted by Lemmy-W on 5/9/2021 flawed bottle: My second (and luckily last) bottle from same source. Identical to first bottle, nose is very unpleasant and colour has clear brown already. Based on the nose, makes me think both bottles had been disposed to heat at some point of their life. (2117 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 4/4/2021 & rated 91 points: Rich, mature now, hints of alcohol, lots of garrigue, sweetness from Grenache here, best with food, more or less a point, I think.
#Kandestederne (2405 views) | | | Tasted by Mdubnik on 10/30/2020 & rated 90 points: Quality CDP. I would term it "entry level" for its flavor profile. Could pick out that it's a CDP, but it didn't wow. Not over the top. Not beyond its years. (2283 views) | | | Tasted by Nfmds on 10/11/2020 & rated 90 points: Nose: rose musk, truffle
Flavor: dried fruits (prune, raisin)
Excellent with fall food: beef stroganoff, roasted pumpkin (1843 views) | | | Tasted by Lemmy-W on 9/27/2020 flawed bottle: flawed, taste of vinegar. Should still be going strong, so this could be due to storage as I don't have full history of it. (1745 views) | | | Tasted by jmcnewjersey on 8/22/2020 & rated 94 points: Nice wine that picked up steam as time passed, but had trouble keeping up with an amazing '07 Clos des Papes. This bottle offered mainly dark fruits on nose and palate. (93-94)(Aug. 16, Gates Lodge) (1699 views) | | | Tasted by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on 7/4/2020 & rated 90 points: Popped and poured. Lots of mushroom on the palate. OK, but not great. (1404 views) | | | Tasted by SonnyChiba on 7/4/2020: Didn’t enjoy this one. Too much vegetable - almost like V8 juice mixed with mushroom. I know some people like this style, but just not for me. 85pts. (1793 views) | | | Tasted by brianakrin on 5/17/2020 & rated 91 points: seemed young to me a bit acidic but good fruit. I'm holding my last couple bottles (1381 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Clos du Mont-Olivet Producer website - Read more about Clos du Mont Olivet
(one) U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)
(another) U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)2007 Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Cinsault.Red Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Southern Rhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Southern Rhone Valley
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation - Read more about Chateauneuf du Pape
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"As I have written many times in the past, the sweet spot for drinking Châteauneuf du Papes is usually the first 5-6 years after the vintage. Then they seem to go through an adolescent, awkward, and sometimes dormant stage, only to re-emerge around year 10-12, where the majority of wines are often fully mature. The best of them will continue to hold on to life (but rarely improving) beyond 15-20 years. It is only the exceptional Châteauneuf du Papes that will evolve for 20-25+ years, and those are indeed a rarity. However, things may be improving dramatically in terms of the longevity of Châteauneuf du Pape, although Grenache-dominated wines, the vast majority of wines produced in the appellation, are wines that do not have the polyphenol (extract and tannin) content of top Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, or Syrah-based wines. Nevertheless, the younger generation in Châteauneuf du Pape has taken seriously the farming in the vineyards. There are more organic and biodynamically run vineyards here than in any other appellation of France. The yields, which were already low, are even lower today (20-35 hectoliters per hectare), and of course, the proliferation of top luxury and/or old-vine cuvées gives a significant boost to the number of wines that will evolve past 25 or 30 years. The advantage of these wines is their broad window of drinkability." - Robert Parker
Vintage Chart 1978 to Today
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