2010 Domaine Charvin Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (116) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  5/18/2024 - thwacker Likes this wine: 99 Points

  If not perfection, the closest thing to it. Still dark purple with tawny bricking at the rims. Very expressive bouquet leaps from the glass. Notes of ripe plums, blackberries, cedar, saddle leather and accets of mint and thyme. Did i get some orange peel? Yes! Very complex with different snents every time i lifted the glass. That complex olifactory assault would have been enough, but the flavor was something else -- good balance but the mouth caressing smoothness was unbelievable, soft, velvet tannins caressing every sensory receptors the wine contacted, long finish that went on forever, A tour de force i could drink forever, but alas, my last bottle! Enjoyed with a veggie cassoulet. Perfect!

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  5/4/2024 - prism wrote: 93 Points

  Slow O'd for a hour. Served at a party; drank the remainder the next evening. An excellent C9P, though it did take a while for the brett to blow off. Well made; could probably improve with a couple more years sideways. Drink or hold.

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  3/19/2024 - Tomportwine wrote: 95 Points

  14 yrs old vintage at this point. Opened 4+ hrs before dinner, decanted 2 hrs before dinner. At start of dinner, it was perfect, smooth, with dark red and prune fruit, earth, mineral, balanced with medium acidity and wonderful elegant chalky dusty tannins. After 2 more hours, the fruit continued to emerge, to add a lustful element.

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  3/4/2024 - Fugu Me Likes this wine:

  PnP, consumed over three nights. This took a couple of hours to really open up, then held straight and steady through the three days it was open, so clearly lots of life ahead, with plenty of room to continue to improve, which is saying something, as it’s already really, really good. My first of four bottles, wishing I had more cellared.

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  3/3/2024 - Grinner wrote: 94 Points

  PNP in a hotel restaurant, then followed back up in the room for another 2 hours. This is SUCH a savory wine! So much easier to pick out the anise, spice, stones, florals, meat/leather, and kelp than to decide which fruits are hiding in there. Yeah, there's cherry, raspberry and plum notes raising their hands for attention. And the texture is great, and the length is, well, long...
  The structure is there, mid life, now-2035.

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