2015 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée
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cbuhlman wrote:
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - SWAPDOC absolutely nailed the review of this wine. with all credit going to him...
" disappointing wine. Could not find traditional southern Rhone characteristics in this wine -- tasted none of the hot earth, olives, raspberry, lavender. More of a slick, generic, polished Italian merlot. The fruit tasted under-ripe, thin, and covered up by slightly astringent wood tannins. Didn't feel like more years of cellaring would magically endow this wine with what is lacking now"-- a sense of place.
This is by far the worst Pegau I've had..and this based on 2 different bottles. Not sure what they're doing over at Pegau, but this is nothing like
2001, 2007 or 2009
87-88
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Comment posted by thesternowl:
1/15/2020 9:08:00 PM - Man...I'm going to have to check in on one of my '15's and report back because that was not at all my experience when I tried it on release. FWIW, the 2016 is a banger.
Comment posted by Crunge:
7/25/2020 8:40:00 AM - CB, it's now four reviews like this (you, Swapdoc, Afot, and me.) The word "thin" is used to describe this and that's exactly it. Is there some kind of bottle damage that can kill all the fruit? Heat, cold, something else? It smelled like a Pegau but had almost no flavor.
Did you buy chance buy yours from a US based retailer that starts with an 'S'?
Comment posted by thesternowl:
7/25/2020 9:26:00 AM - None of my 2015’s are anything like this description.
Comment posted by Crunge:
7/25/2020 9:59:00 AM - Owl, I get that. Most descriptions here sound like a really good Pegau. However, the bottle I had was exactly what CB described, and as I point out, there are now four descriptions describing it as thin and having little flavor. I'm wondering if some set of bottles was damaged somehow.
Comment posted by thesternowl:
7/25/2020 10:43:00 AM - It sounds like the bottles were exposed to heat.
Comment posted by cbuhlman:
7/27/2020 6:10:00 AM - to Crunge,
yes, it was out of NJ