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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2031 (based on 4 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 92 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Salute on 2/14/2024 & rated 93 points: A beautiful, grenache-heavy (85%) CdP.
Floral aromatic nose, with cedar wood, black pepper and ripe fruit on the palate.
Wonderfully long finish.
Love it. (241 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 1/13/2023 & rated 92 points: Rond et épicé, belles saveurs, corps moyen, savoureux. 91-92 pts (1115 views) | | | Tasted by Derek Darth Taster on 9/2/2021 & rated 93 points: Bosquet des Papes Zoom Tasting. Tasted in Gabriel Standart.
Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of sweet roobois red tea, florals, licorice, sweet baking spices, dark red cherries, bit of dark red plums. Developing.
On the palate, dry, good high acidity, high alcohol (15.5%), high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet red tea, licorice, fine exquisite chocolate, sweet baking spices, sensual elegant dark red cherries, redcurrant, dark red plums, dried figs, dusty earth minerality lingering. Long fine grippy finish.
Very good quality. Complex, elegant, deep CdP. Just a tad hot alcoholic. Good future over the next 6-8 years.
85% Grenache, 15% Mourvedre. (1573 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 8/30/2021 & rated 91 points: Opened last night. Very dark garnet, virtually opaque, glass-staining. Soft red fruit in the nose, bit of garrigue. Much ado about garrigue in the mouth. Grippy too. Drinkable, but should last a long time. 5-12-16-8: 91/100. (1337 views) | | | Tasted by BaronsPaw on 8/8/2021 & rated 89 points: Very typical Rhone. Quite disappointing for the price. (1169 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 10/12/2020 & rated 95 points: Elegant, plush, soft and fresh, with a strong floral essence which is accompanied with a nice sweetness to all the red fruits. Silky, refined, soft and generous with a gorgeous sense of purity to the fruits in the finish. The wine blends 85% Grenache with 15% Mourvedre. (2164 views) |
| Bosquet des Papes Producer website - Read more about Bosquet des PapesBosquet des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Chante Le Merle Vieilles VignesProduction
10,000 to 13,000 bottles per year
Terroir/Average age of the vineyard
Clay-limestone soil with rolled pebbles which store up heat during the day and restore it to the vine stocks during the night.
Mix of all types of soil of the appellation (pebble, clay, and sand)
Selection of vines of 80 to 90 years old
Blend
80% Grenache Noir
10% Syrah
10% Mourvèdre
Wine making/Aging
Traditional wine making thermoregulated concrete vats
No de-stemming
Some unballastings and daily pumping-over carried out with great care.
Fermentation of skins: approximately 35 days
Aging in large oak barrels and new deim-muids (15-20%): 12 to 18 months
Source:CHANTE-LE-MERLE-VIEILLES-VIGNES.pdfRed 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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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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