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• AGELVIS Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 15, 2024 - Two hour double decant. Deep magenta color. Strawberry, raspberry, peppermint patty, Earl Grey tea, eucalyptus, and subtle coffee grounds. Smooth, dry, slightly herbal palate. Full tannins on the longish finish.
  
  Brought by a friend to our monthly supper club. Solid showing for a not so great vintage.

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• WojteG Likes this wine: 100 points

  March 4, 2024 - I had 2 "basics" ChdP from this great winery.
  2001 - 95 points
  2017 - 96 points
  This is a Special Reserve Cuvée. It's named in honor of the founder of the estate, Auguste Favier.
  Because of that I'm sure it has to be better then their regular ChdP
  2 hours in the decanter
  🕐⏰
  First sniff and first sip and this is the masterpiece. I think it's the most unique wine ( in a very positive sense) I have ever had the pleasure of drinking
  Especially the taste. Nothing unusual, but the balance of all components is incredible.
  But let's start from the beginning.
  Smell? On the sweet side. Plum, milk chocolate, blackberry, but also herbs, earth, forest, vanilla, licorice and who knows what else is here. Anyway - pure pleasure.
  Taste - as I wrote: herbs and one more time herbs, but...
  Perfectly balanced with sweet black fruits, chocolate, raspberry and mandarin ( am I crazy or what?) and lovely spice
  Acidity is vivid and perfectly blended with sweet flavors
  Tannins are ripe and grainy.
  Finish lasts forever with all what I mentioned.
  2017 got 94 points according to the WA Vintage Guide. Outstanding. Still tannic, youthful or slow to mature.
  
  2017 got 94 points according to the WA Vintage Guide. Outstanding. Still tannic, youthful or slow to mature.One more thing about the finish.
  I take a small slice of salami and I still have this wine sensation in my mouth.
  Unbelievable.
  I just finished my third glass.
  Additional smell - barbecue and smoke.
  Flavors - barbecue meat, black pepper.
  And this incredible long finish drives me crazy straight to ... paradise
  🙂
  Wine?
  JD - 99
  Jeff Leve - 96
  RP - 94
  Decanter - 94
  WE - 94
  WS - 94
  Vinous - 94
  JS - 91( booo...) 🙂

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• WojteG Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 13, 2023 - I had a 2001 vintage last December - 94 points.
  Let's see if this young brother is also so good.
  2 hours in the decanter
  🕐⏰🕙
  St.Perfert was established in 1930 and it was one of the first wineries from CdR to export to the USA! It got pretty quick to be recognized as a HQ wine maker in ChdP.
  Ok let's go to this particular wine. It's simply magnificent!
  The taste is full of ripe fruits, ripe tannins, sweet spices. Red cherry, black cherry, blackberry, but also raspberry ( wow?), mandarin ( so cool). But wait...
  ... there's more.
  Definitely licorice and mint. Milk chocolate ( no doubt about it) and an interesting finish with herbs, plum and black pepper, black olives.
  Unfortunately the finish is way too short.( that's why 95 pts.)
  Smell is fragrant ,delicate ( in positive meaning). Raspberry, orange, flowers, graphite, ripe red and black cherry, milk chocolate.
  I am glad that I have one more bottle, see you next year 🙂
  WS - 94
  JD - 93
  RP - 92
  JS - 90

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• OenoEd wrote: 90 points

  August 21, 2022 - Cassis, black plum, wet metal, vanilla oak, and inky dark chocolate cherry come through on the nose after 90 minutes in the glass. Before then, too much wet metal and alcohol in the nose to judge. This is a big penetrating CdP, but presents like a wine that’s been worked and manipulated to create that big body, lots of power, minimal grace. Fairly hot and spicy, still tannic, blind I wound have guessed it was a hot vintage Rhône Ranger crafted by a Parker score chaser , big and racy, really concentrated, still young, and still hard to predict whether this improves. I’m guessing it won’t.; it is what it is, probably for 10 years. Not my style. Hard to pair in it’s awkward youth, medicinal with edgy hot iodine, black licorice and distracting acidity, but it surprisingly worked with a variety meat loaf, more than with grilled prime rib eye, which showed it up! Works well,also, with black olives.

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• bucktooth22 Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 14, 2022 - Decanted about an hour. Medium ruby, long legs, on 👃 graphite, gun powder, dry leaves, ripe cherries, licorice, cigar box. Very milky, very dry, highly acidic, strong frontal tannins with sweet cherry & vanilla finish; a bit one dimensional taste. Good to drink now. I liked 👃 over 👅 .

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• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Saint Préfert
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Codes 3760279780009, 3760279780245

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• Consumed 72 (21%)

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