2005 Cuvée du Vatican Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 87.3 points

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  1/7/2022 - prism wrote: 90 Points

  Ah, finally a good bottle again! My expectations had grown exceedingly low based on recent bottles. In any case, were I to have ordered this in a restaurant as a well-aged aged if modest C9P, I would be impressed with it in the glass. Pulling it out if cellarage after fifteen years, I am somewhat less impressed, but it's a solid 90. One left, but, like this one, I won't risk opening it for company without solid backup.

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  1/6/2022 - prism wrote: flawed

  This has turned to crap. Two bottles left; I expect the same fate for them.

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  9/9/2017 - prism wrote:

  Ughhh! Oxidized to the point of awfulness, third bottle in a row. This stuff used to be drinkable, though never very good (the Reserve Sixtine of the same year was still fine, last time I checked; I had purchased a case of each), but I hold scant hope for my remaining few bottles. Drink 'em if you got 'em, and good luck to you. Be sure to have a backup bottle ready.

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  8/9/2017 - prism wrote: 86 Points

  Didn't like this bottle any better than the last. Raisiny and woody; not pleasant to drink. Down the drain with the rest of it.

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  8/6/2017 - prism wrote: 87 Points

  Just a taste at bottle's end. Thick, pruney, earthy. Not to my taste at all.

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