2007 Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (546) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  3/31/2024 - vr.bart Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This was my last bottle, I decided to open this relatively soon after my previous bottle as that one was already starting to go over the hill. However this bottle was excellent! Really good. Sure it had some tertiairy characteristics but it was still perfectly balanced. Perfectly integrated alcohol (15%!). My advice would be though to start drinking these up. They will not be improving anymore but these will still give a lot of pleasure right now.

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  3/31/2024 - boillatm wrote:

  Well. I opened the bottle around 30 minutes before taking a first sip. As it tasted like a hot mess, I decided to give the wine a bit more time.
  30 minutes after, it got a bit better (and bitter) and tasted like a correct mature CDP. That said, this wasn't a wow wine by any measure. Had I not known the pedigree of this wine, I would have rated this bottle miserably (also in contrat with the pleasure I had drinking the 2006 from this producer a couple of years ago). As I am not a very refined taster, I will abstain from putting a rating. But for me clearly a big disappointment

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  3/24/2024 - Beeck10 wrote: 98 Points

  Well, what a wine, but especially those like me who were lucky enough to buy this wine when it came out at 27 euros a bottle probably made the deal of their lives! I took the wine to a restaurant and they probably didn't have the best glasses to check it, hence my 98 out of 100! Especially since I enjoy the aroma more than the taste!
  
  Aromas in the nose
  1. Ripe red fruits such as cherries and strawberries
  2. Blackberries and plums
  3. Floral notes, such as violets and berries
  4. Leather and tobacco notes
  
  Flavors on the pallet
  1. Red and dark fruits, with a focus on cherries and blackberries
  2. Plum jam and raspberry preserves
  3. Pepper and clove spices
  4. Licorice and dark chocolate
  5. Herbal elements, reminiscent of
  6. Toasted oak and vanilla from barrel aging

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  3/13/2024 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Not a bad showing... but on this night/evening, I'd placed this behind the '10 Ferme du Mont...

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  2/29/2024 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Deep color. Black cherries, black raspberries, currants, licorice and hints of floral and earthiness in the nose. Blackberries, black cherries, raspberries and black currants with hints of herbalness in the flavor. An elegant wine, rich and complex. It is very well balanced, full bodied, great structure, and a long finish. Plenty of time left in this bottle. Delicious!

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