2009 Bosquet des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Chante Le Merle Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  1/20/2024 - no oak Likes this wine: 93 Points

  We had a bottle of this wine 2 years ago, and it was still fairly closed and tannic. Tonight, upon opening, the wine hand an unpleasantly funky nose and was light bodied. However, after being decanted for 1 hour, it was a totally different wine. It had put on significant weight and had become full bodied. On the palate, the wine comes across as thick and viscous, and tastes like a combination of cherry liquor with a splash of black currents. Subtle notes of licorice on the finish. The tannins had softened considerably since we last tasted the wine 2 years ago. An excellent wine and very, very enjoyable now for its beautiful fruit, but secondary characteristics have yet to evolve.

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  6/18/2022 - garrigue65 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Dried dark fruit and blackberry Hints of tobacco and cigar box. Long finish with silky tannins. Very enjoyable right now.

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  3/11/2022 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Powerful nose of cherry, cassis, plum, roses, and star anise. Dry black cherry fruit and leather on the palate with Earl Grey tea and fennel layered in. Smooth, dry tannins on the powerful finish, adding cedar box at the end. A complete package that's drinking perfect right now - perhaps didn't capture it in enough detail.

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  1/6/2022 - Sesesq Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nicely concentrated, great tertiary notes, LONG finish, but a bit less complex than I would have liked for something this old. Would enjoy again.

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  10/22/2020 - garrigue65 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Blackberry and blueberry on nose and palate. Hints of chocolate on mid palate. Finish is interestingly rustic with minerality, mature tannins very enjoyable.

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