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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.3 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 3/7/2024 & rated 95 points: Verticale de la cuvée Reine des Bois du Domaine de la Mordorée (À la maison): Dès le premier nez, son origine est évidente. C'est un superbe Châteauneuf au style traditionnel, authentique et profond. Bel équilibre et longueur, une grande réussite d'un domaine que je goûte rarement. 95 pts (295 views) | | | Tasted by super007 on 1/7/2024 & rated 93 points: Lot of sediment. Decanted and filtered
First impression - was blown away by the long finish. Very long and nice finish with super soft and fine fine grained tannins.
Interestingly the 15% alcohol isn’t apparent
Dark, blue or black fruit with maybe some cocoa or rich notes. There is certainly a lot going on here. Yeasty richness blended with dark fruits like black currant and the rich flavor Marmite without the sting/bite. Lighter bodied.
95% Grenache with 350 cases produced.
Very well made wine with a lot of balance. Great choice if your group is split between burgundy and Bordeaux (323 views) | | | Tasted by ovenmitt on 1/1/2024 & rated 94 points: Dark red almost opaque. Blue fruit and a little funk from the Forrest floor. Still shows big Blue fruit, blueberries, Booberry’s breakfast cereal, cocoa and eucalyptus. Drinking very well now, but with lots of years left to cellar. Very good balance - especially for CdP. Excellent! (285 views) | | | Tasted by k H i L o on 8/6/2023 & rated 96 points: Excellentissime ! Buvez-le ! Goulûment ! Enivrez-vous de son fruit puissant, de sa suavité et de son extrémisme maîtrisé. Magnifique. Grenache dans toute sa splendeur qui bouscule tout sur son passage. (514 views) | | | Tasted by Wino133 on 8/17/2021 & rated 97 points: Coravin'd, so no decanting yet.
Lovely, very smooth, drk ruby in colour, raspberry et usual nose, the body is quite gamey. Very good, will updte if there are significnat changes over the course of the lifetime of one glass. (1603 views) | | | Tasted by ovenmitt on 4/5/2021 & rated 95 points: Most excellent. Drinking very well now but still a baby... juicy blue and red fruit, dark cocoa powder. Should evolve and improve for another few years. (1553 views) | | | Tasted by KPB on 4/5/2021 & rated 97 points: A deep carnation red. The nose was singing from the moment the cork was pulled, wild red raspberry and garrigue, sun-scorched dry earth, lavender. Sweet yet structured with a tiny point of bitterness that yields to a persistent note of raspberry pastille. Incredible minerality on the endless finish. (1918 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 5/28/2016 & rated 97 points: What a great bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape is all about. Stylish, supple, rich, full bodied, lusty and packed with ripe, sweet, juicy, black raspberries, kirsch, garrigue, cracked black pepper and thyme. This is great now, but it's still just a baby. All that sweet, ripe fruit makes it fun and easy to drink. But it's only going to get better with age. (6287 views) | | | Tasted by Rezy13 on 10/17/2014: Friday Night Double Blind Tasting $40+ (Bin 75): Darker core with brighter garnet rim; fresh bright floral nose, red cherry, raspberry, garrigue, sour cranberry, a bit headier leaning towards hammy but I feel this is just the youth, vanilla bean; palate continues with pure raspberry, red berries, purple flowers, slight grip in the back but almost ideal phenolics, no figgy character; pure fruit and goodness built to age gracefully- kind of reminds me of their '01 but better; delicious now but check back in 3-5 years, in 20 this should be brilliant and Burgundian. (6040 views) | | | Tasted by Rezy13 on 10/7/2014 & rated 96 points: Tuesday Night $20-$40 Double Blind (Bin 75): Wow, this is not what I was expecting from a young vintage of this wine, it shows phenomenal balance, sweet but not overripe fruit, pleasant grip, larger alcohol but it doesn't stand out, also good acid keeps this fresh; a complete package that I expect to age gracefully for 20+ years; one of the most exciting young wines to date. (5949 views) | | | Tasted by Rubinstein on 9/9/2014 & rated 96 points: 96+. Amazing aromas with cool Dark fruit, red berries. Fuld bodied, smooth and true job. Bravo (5284 views) | | | Tasted by noppakit s. on 9/10/2013 & rated 96 points: A great wine with layers and dimensions, many characters at this moment, CdP, Rayas, Burgundy, Cote-Rotie, and Languedoc. Firm, dense but beautiful in texture. Delicious with invisible touch in its finished. Well-made wine indeed !!!
96-100/100
** Needs to be decanted 1-2 hours ** (6372 views) | | | Tasted by mikeaukenbals on 8/29/2013 & rated 92 points: not worth the price at this point, but clearly too young. (3118 views) | | | Tasted by alr6767 on 8/9/2013 & rated 96 points: Amazing wine. Elegance, purity of fruit, impeccable balance. This should drink well for years. (2248 views) | | | Tasted by ovenmitt on 1/6/2013 & rated 92 points: Drinking young, but wanted to get a better grip on what this wine is about.... Decanted for 2-3 hours, but still drinking much better on second night (which notes are written from). Kind of a sweet candied dark fruit (blueberries?) mixed with dirt, black pepper, and maybe some green veg. Very round mouthfeel, but some spine coming on as it got more and more air. Blueberries, black pepper, and sage. Very nice bottle and it will be interesting to see how it evolves. (2742 views) | | | Tasted by mchartley on 8/17/2012 & rated 100 points: First ever tasting note on CT - and I had to write it simply because this may be one of the best bottles of red wine I have ever tasted. Yes - very young....but this has all the trappings of a future superstar. Bright red fruit, plenty of acidity and smooth, firm tannins. The nose is unreal! I could have let it sit in the glass for hours and watch it develop. If you are a Marcoux fan - do not miss this wine. (3435 views) |
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| Domaine de Marcoux Producer website - Read more about Domaine de Marcoux
U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)
Owners: Catherine and Sofie Armenier (Estevenin)
Address: Chemin de la Gironde, 84100 Chateauneuf du Pape.
Tel. 490 346 743
Direct sale: Yes, but best to make an appointment.
Until the late nineties Marcoux was run by Phillipe Armenier. The bio-dynamic principles inspired by Rudolf Steiner meant very much to him. The planning of the works in the fields and the cellars was done out from the phases of the lunar cycle. In connexion with this the practice in the vineyards of course was (and stil is) strictly organic. Suddenly Phillipe Armenier left the domaine - and France. He lives today in California. Back at the domain is since then the two sisters Catherine and Sofie Armenier. They are perhaps not quite as focused on stars and planets as Phillipe but bio-dynamic principles also means a lot to them. Catherine is responsible for the fields and Sofie for the vinification. They both do it with great succes.
The Armenier family has deep roots in Chateauneuf du Pape. They can date their forefathers back to 1344.
Marcoux has 17.5 ha. One of them with white varieties. The average age is about 50 years. 5.5 ha is 90 years old. Half of these old vines are used for Vieilles Vignes. The rest goes to the classic cuvée. The vinification is traditional for the appellation with maturing mostly in foudres. The principles can be described by citing Sofie Armenier: “We interfere with the vinification as little as possible. We don’t do any pigeage to get color, because we just don’t want to get in the way of the fruit.”
From only 2 ha. is made Cotes du Rhone and furthermore a Lirac, from vineyards in this appellation, made in cooperation with Louis Canto at Domaine de la Ronciere.
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. Vieilles Vignes Old Vine/Vieilles Vignes (Wikipedia)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
Another site on this appellation
Vineyards on weinlagen-info
"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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