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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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11/18/2023 - Polarper Likes this wine: 100 points

Absolutely fabulous. Fresh yet complex and balanced. This wine is still going strong.

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2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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9/6/2022 - RhoneWho wrote: 99 points

Almost a year later, the 2016 Mas Boislauzon cuvee Tintot (Mourvèdre) is WOTD drinking alone with Pierre Usseglio cuvee Mon Aieeul and both 2019 Andremily Syrah and Grenache, 2015 Hartford Land's Edge (fantastic grand cru aromatics), 2017 Hartford 4 Hearts, 2020 Herman Story Larner Syrah/Grenache, and 2014 Pahlmeyer's Jayson Cab.

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"2016 cuvee Tintot has it all! It’s rich yet balance, and finesse yet with great backbone for aging. It has an intoxicating and uplifting aromatics with a pot pourri of black and ripe red fruits (on a Parisian tart) intermixed with sweet savory herbs and floral notes. I found myself kept swirling the glass for the perfumey elixir. The accomplishment is made without help from new French oak; in fact, most of the wine is aged in concrete tank with just a little in neutral oak barrel."

Original Notes from Sept 2022
I was fortunate enough to be able to compose a vertical tasting of 2015, 16, 17 and 19 on this unicorn, a single vineyard and a single varietal mourvedre (85% & 15% grenache). No one else from CDP or other places comes close to this cuvee Tintot. There are top wine critics compared cuvee Tintot to Beaucastel hommage Jacques Perrin, which is not a single varietal as it contains less than 85% mourvedre in most vintages (e.g. 2019 JP has 60% mourvedre).

2016 cuvee Tintot has it all! It’s rich yet balance, and finesse yet with great backbone for aging. It has an intoxicating and uplifting aromatics with a pot pourri of black and ripe red fruits (on a Parisian tart) intermixed with sweet savory herbs and floral notes. I found myself kept swirling the glass for the perfumey elixir. The accomplishment is made without help from new French oak; in fact, most of the wine is aged in concrete tank with just a little in neutral oak barrel.

The flavor profile has ripe black and red berries, smoked meat and sweet savory herbs (thyme and bay leaf). The structure has ultra fine tannin coating the palate and great acidity to balance the rich and ripe flavor profile. Very elegant and finesse! This vintage reminds of 2019 Andremily Mourvedre.

Currently 2017 vintage (held back from release due to its monster tannin structure) surprisingly turns out to most ready to drink now and follow by both 2016 and 2015 cuvee Tintot; they are ready to enjoy by laying back with a plate of cheese. I have tremendous respect for Chaussy-Laget family for willing to hold back the release of 2017 until it’s ready. The 2019 cuvee with a few years of aging could evolve to be become 2016 cuvee Tintot with more oomph and richer profile.

Rating: 97-100; 98+. I have tasted this 2016 vintage a few times over last 2 years and it has kept getting better. Can it get any better than now?

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2019 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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9/6/2022 - RhoneWho wrote: 99 points

Did a vertical tasting of 2015, 2016 and 2019. I had 2015 and 2016 before. I could not believe 2019 cuvee Quet is drinking fabulously now and in fact I prefer 2019 over both 2015 and 2016. The has layers of flavors with ripe red and dark fruits; and intoxicating aromatics. It’s very concentrated (its cuvee Tintot is even monsterly bigger) but it has great subtle acidity and ultra-fine tannin to balance it. Its texture is so seamless with purity showing signs of a perfect wine hitting triple digit in a few years, which I couldn’t agree more with JD.

I won’t be surprise this could be the wine of the vintage based on other top 2019 CDP grenache wines I had last 2 months. This 2019 cuvee can definitely hold its structure and age beautifully for 20 years easily. If you like to drink both cuvee Quet and Tintot now, I strongly advise doing doiuble decanting overnight before enjoying it the next day at cellar temperature; otherwise, you would be disappointed finding it too sweet with stew fruits … it just needs lots of air time for it to perform its 180 degree splendor ballet spins!

I was lucky enough to drink its entire lineup of greanche starting from Cote du Rhone, Selection, Tradition and Quet. I was very impressed with each of them having lots of flavor and balance structure at great QPR for each of their category. As I progress forward, each wine increases its layer of flavor, complexity and finesse. I have no problem serving its Tradition with any grenaches from California (at $50-80+ range).

Rating: 97-100; 98+ currently and with lots of upside.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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5/20/2012 - Graddini wrote: 99 points

Monster wine that should have been decanted and open for 3 or more hours. Wet dog smell from the mourvedre became all sorts of enchanted wood, crushed berry and lavender/herbal notes. Astonishing wine with a lengthy finish (if we hadn't finished most of it too soon.)

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2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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5/28/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 points

Insanely rich, with a depth of flavor that does not quit, the wine coats every nook and cranny of your palate. Even with teeth staining levels of fruit, the wine is velvety, polished, fresh, vibrant, long and complex. Density and purity make a powerful pairing here. On your palate, the wine just does not quit, staying with you for close to 60 seconds. It's absolutely sublime! The wine was made from a blend of 85% old vine Mourvedre and 15% Grenache.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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12/26/2020 - HOS wrote: 99 points

Christmas Eve 2020. PnP. This is just amazing. The depth of flavor is unlike anything I’ve ever had in wine. Absolutely savory with garrange, herbs, au jus. A little alcohol bite at first that burned off quickly. Full bodied, silky smooth, long finish.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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3/23/2010 - D.Callahan Likes this wine: 98 points

Decanted at noon for an hour and a half then poured it back in the bottle and corked until around 7:30 p. m.. Drank at a Rhone dinner on the west side of LA. Fantastic nose of smoke and flowering herbs with a little bacon fat thrown in. The palate was bursting with dark fruits but also had a spine of minerality running down the middle with very good acidity and soft tannins with a finish that went on for minutes. This wine is everything that Parker said it was (I just have not had enough CdP to be able to call this 100 pts.).

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2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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6/12/2021 - adamanko wrote: 98 points

When you drink a wine that has 99 in score you don't really believe it, do you? But this is actually a fantastic wine and 99 is not far fetched. Massive wine, some bitter burnt liqourice notes that will take you a while to adjust to. But when you do, adjust, this will blow your mind! I'm very happy that I got two more! 97-98.

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2019 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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1/9/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

Almost opaque in color, the wine exudes a complex array of black pepper, herbs, thyme, black, red and blue fruits. Full-bodied, rich, intense, fleshy and flamboyant on the palate, the wine hits and coats your palate with waves of opulent, deep, dark berries with a seamless finish. With aging, this could score higher as it develops. If you like old vine Mourvedre, this is a very special wine. The wine was made from a blend of 85% old vine Mourvedre and 15% Grenache. Drink from 2027 - 2045

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2019 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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9/6/2022 - RhoneWho wrote: 98 points

I was fortunate enough to be able to compose a vertical tasting of 2015, 16, 17 and 19 on this unicorn, a single vineyard and a single varietal mourvedre (85% & 15% grenache). No one else from CDP or other places comes close to this cuvee Tintot. There are top wine critics compared cuvee Tintot to Beaucastel hommage Jacques Perrin, which is not a single varietal as it contains less than 85% mourvedre.

By far, 2019 cuvee Tintot is the most concentrated and richest vintage and has the most potential to evolve into a perfect wine with triple digits in a few years. If you want to try the 2019, I strongly advise doing double decanting overnight before enjoying it the next few days (trust me it does get better and better over a few days) at cellar temperature; otherwise, you would be disappointed finding it too sweet with stew fruits (like what the old-style CDP used to be).

2019 cuvee Tintot has an intoxicating aromatics with a pot pourri of black and ripe red fruits intermixed with sweet savory herbs and smoked meat. I found myself kept swirling the glass for the perfumey elixir. The accomplishment is made without help from new French oak; in fact, most of the wine is aged in concrete tank with just a little in neutral oak barrel.

The flavor profile has ripe blackberries, cola, graphite, pepper and Provencal herbs (thyme and bay leaf); but it’s still tight and will need cellar aging to unpack over a few years. The structure is massive with lots of ultra fine tannin coating the palate and great acidity to balance the monster concentration of flavor. This vintage reminds of 2018 Andremily Mourvedre.

Currently 2017 vintage (held back from release due to its monster tannin structure) surprisingly turns out to be very plush and is the most ready to drink now and follow by 2016 and and then 2015 cuvee Tintot . I have tremendous respect for Chaussy-Laget family for willing to hold back the release of 2017 until it’s ready. these wines are ready to enjoy with a plate of cheese by sipping while swirling for its decadent aromatics. 2016 vintage is currently is most elegant, balance and perfumey wine but that could change in a few years from now with 2019 cuvee breathing its neck :)

Rating: 97-100; 97+ but will definitely improve with bottle aging with potential hitting triple digit as it heads toward 2016 cuvee trajectory.

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2010 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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3/20/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

Opaque in color, this intense wine is packed with smoke, coffee, earth, plum liqueur, molten black cherries and an array of spices. Dense, concentrated and tannic, this sensational, rich, powerful, palate coating, Chateauneuf du Pape will need a few years to come together.

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2017 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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9/24/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

One of the wines of the vintage, this is just great in every sense. The wine is rich, plush and polished. Complex and concentrated, with layers of dark, spicy, meaty fruits, the wine hits your palate in all the right spaces and places. The velvety old vine fruit sticks with you in the finish. This is a contender for one of the wines of the vintage. The wine was made using 90% old vine Mourvedre and 10% Grenache.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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3/12/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

Super wine with real, old vine intensity. The wine really packs a punch, in all the right ways. Fat, yet balanced, sweet, yet fresh, the wine is long, finishing with a blast of peppery, spicy, black raspberries and earth.

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2015 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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8/21/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

Almost opaque in color, there is a richness that comes from old vines that cannot be lost, even if you tried. Spicy and dense, the wine coats your palate, but with elegance, and not just extract. Light on its feet, due to the freshness, the wine sticks with you and just doesn't want to leave. The end notes carry through with a black cherry and plum liqueur essence that you just want more of. The wine was made from a blend of 85% old vine Mourvedre and 15% Grenache. This is really great juice that deserves to be tasted!

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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3/17/2017 - canan wrote: 97 points

Misc Tasting - Terkel Style (Birkerød): Harsh structure but still lots of compact and dense dark fruits. The acidity is so impressive that it is able to take the wine to a good place and improves the overall balance of the wine.
The aftertaste is very impressive and overall this is a huge wine!

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2015 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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1/13/2020 - csimm wrote: 97 points

Brambly, wild dark berry, purple plum, licorice, cassis, and some peripheral garrigue and thyme notes make for an inviting and unctuous delivery of flavors that cruise effortlessly along the palate. Light on its feet, especially mid-palate, where its mid-weight drop is medium and not overly dense. Moderate concentration and balanced cadence move the core along at a paced speed, ending with more fascinating fruit flavors that fool you into thinking they are going to overpower the profile and give the experience of being “too much” overall. Not the case, as the pulse here is sound and the purity of fruit prodigious. A wine to hold for a few more years to enable even more assimilation and streamlining of precision and depth. 95-96+ points. Try again in 2023+.

DAY 2 UPDATE: I bumped this wine up to 97+ points after checking back in with it following extended air time. Some fascinating mesquite, olive, and game notes emerged to add interest to the ever-deepening black and purple berry core. Worth holding a few years for now and should really reward with upside after some short term cellaring.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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9/23/2017 - Grinner wrote: 97 points

Joe and Kyla Bon Voyage Dinner (Kyla's Kitchen): My WOTN, this is a big hedonistic wine with deep black fruit, pepper, sangre de Toro, flowers, licorice, garrigue, earth and kombu. Rich and even a little velvety. Goes on and on. Now-2032.

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2009 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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1/27/2014 - Decanting fool wrote: 97 points

Spectacular right out of the bottle. This wine is superb! Seamless with every element perfectly in place and fully expressed. Tarry, juicy, fruit driven, earthy, elegantly perfumed and generous. Unbelievably accessible at this early age and will only get better. Deep, seductive and delicious, cherries, chocolate and the whole shebang. My partner wanted to give it 100 points, and indeed it is flirting with perfection save for the whiff of heat on the finish (which does blow off given enough time.) Have revisited this wine several times and my impression of how wonderful it is just gets stronger. On day two of the most recent bottle, accompanied by a rare NYer right off the grill I found myself saying OMG with almost every sip. Had to go back and give it another point.

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2007 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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7/1/2016 - Lasseth61 Likes this wine: 97 points

Dark colour with orange notes at the rim.
The nose is really nice with dark fruits, licorice, herbs, white pepper, leather, lavender, "candy", cassis, black olives, dried fruits...
On the palate there is lots of dried fruits, cherries, licorice, dark chocolate, leather... Power and balance! Very long.
Still youthful and will improve for at least ten years.

Thanks TD!

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2009 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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12/2/2011 - Christoffer78 wrote: 97 points

This an absolute masterpiece! The 2009 Cuvée du Quet is so young drinking it is close to infanticide. The first three hours of aeration move the nose through phases of overwhelming oak, dark brooding dirty tones and raw red meat. But after about four hours and a decent meal the wine starts to sing. The nose expresses a lovely floral tone combined with provencal herbs, wet hay and the Grenache typical dark mature fruits. The palate is full and lush with a never ending finish. The subtle but still present acidity does certainly put the "dot over the i" for me. At this very early stage the tannins are a bit tough, rough or even harsh, but this is just a sign of longevity in the cellar. A slight drawback is a subtle heat which is present in the end-palate as well as the close to negligible feeling of a residual sweetness I could have managed without. Overall impression is extremely positive. This effort flirts with perfection. (score is 96-98)

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2010 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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3/20/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 points

From 100% Mourvedre, with vines that average at least 80 years of age, this inky, black wine is stunning! Licorice, blackberry liqueur, herbs, ripe black cherry and smoke aromas explode from the glass. Fat, sassy and packed with multiple layers of rich, ripe, dense sweet, pure fruit, this massive, intense wine fills your mouth and palate with flavor and velvet textures in the long, polished finish.

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2009 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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12/19/2015 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 97 points

I still believe a description I have used before describes this wine very well: 2009 Quet certainly is "a full-bodied hedonistic pleasure bomb". But the wine also exhibits tons of class, more for each year passing by. There is also the very typical tones of sun warm heather which is a hallmark for this producer. The nose reveals creamy butterscotch, sweet licorice, abundant dark fruit and subtle tones of roasted orange zest as well as freshly ground rosemary and sage. The palate is becoming more and more integrated. Tonight there is no heat at all, but I would still recommend serving this wine at around 15 degrees Celsius at first pour. The length on the finish is astonishing. The wine just continues to linger on in the mouth. A totally hedonistic, lovely, yet elegant wine which will continue to develop for many years to come.

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2010 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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6/2/2020 - JonnyG Likes this wine: 97 points

2010 Southern Rhone Night, Courtesy of Zoom (Santa Barbara County): Stunningly good, and with plenty of upside. Dark and brooding in appearance, but surprisingly deft and balanced on the palate. The nose showed licorice and bitter chocolate notes along with some red berries and orange peel. Great complexity of layered tastes: more red fruit, licorice, sweet herbs and pastille. A very long finish.

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2019 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet

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1/9/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 points

Deep, dark and lusty, this blend of 80% Grenache and 20% Mourvedre produced a rich, compelling, concentrated wine, filled to the brim with grilled steak, spice, black and red fruits with a liberal dose of just ground pepper. Long, rich, and intensely concentrated, there is a gorgeous purity to the fruits that fill your palate and sticks with you. This should age quite nicely. Drink from 2025 - 2040

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2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Le Tintot

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10/7/2021 - csimm wrote: 97 points

As good as the 2015, and perhaps with even greater depth and concentration, this 2016 Tintot shows fabulous dark black and deep red berry fruits complimented by black olive, tar, licorice, melted Baker’s chocolate, garrigue, black soil, and a super fine but deep muddled red raspberry note. Anise and faint cast iron charred coriander seed add interest.

This has a few years to go to ultimately reach even more optimal drinking pleasure, but it’s a pretty smooth ride right out of the gate already. There’s good energy here and also a chewy component that really beefs-up the mouthfeel here. Almost no perception of alcohol at all and no hard edges already. Another stellar Tintot.

Though I didn’t do a decant, I’d recommend anyone who wants to sample this early to do so for at least an hour or so to really bring out some more of the ancillary flavors. Otherwise, hold remaining bottles for a few years. 95-97 points.

I have to say that I may personally prefer the 2015 slightly just because of its darker tonalities. This 2016 has some red fruit (the 15% Grenache showing a little swagger?) that does indeed add to the complexity but I can’t help but be drawn to the 2015’s more Gothic and sappy profile. However, the comparative extra tick of depth in the 2016 cannot be denied.

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