1989 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée

Community Tasting Notes (58) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  9/29/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 87 Points

  CdP blind tasting. Illuminating evening, while there were some nice and complex wines there were also quite a few misses. Issues revolved around either not aging well and becoming pruney, oxidative with cooked fruit aromas or just being too heavy/sweet/alcoholic. TN: Very bretty nose, farmyaard funk, umami, tertiary, underbrush intermixed with dark fruit. Rustic and past peak.

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  7/29/2023 - ElAzul Likes this wine: 92 Points

  As before I removed the cork with an ah-so and it was only wet to the middle. Fill was one half inch below cork and above the neck line. Amber on the rim but still mostly ruby colored. Nose of blood and leather. Palate of red fruit intermingled with blood minerality, herbs de Provence and garrigue. Finish is bold even after three hours open so this bottle seems more lively than the prior bottle.

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  9/29/2022 - andtheodor wrote: 95 Points

  I absolutely adored this and to me, it's clearly on the level of one of my all time faves the '89 Beaucastel. Brimming with garrigue, meats, and fresh fruit too. Perfect balance of fruit and non-fruit complexity, in a good spot now but this bottle would easily live another 10 years.

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  8/6/2022 - ElAzul Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Cork removed with an ah-so. Cork was wet to the top but the bottle fill was to the mid neck, so that is excellent for 33 year old wine. Initial nose of barnyard funk but that resolved after one hour to reveal some cedar and a slight smell of garrigue and saddle leather. After two hours open distinct flavors of dried fruit like figs or dates appeared. Also a hint of dried black cherry. And the finish of sweet tannin is lovely, lasting almost 30 seconds. Wonderful CDP that has aged beautifully. I prefer the 90 Pegau but this wine would be very interesting to compare with Vieux Telegraphe and Beaucastel from the same vintage. After three hours open the finish is very nice but more gamey notes appeared as well as some bloody hints. Complex, brooding and so Old World! I vacuvined the wine overnight and found the wine's fruit had disappeared and was dominated by earthy tannin. So I conclude the wine is mature and should be consumed in one evening.

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  1/24/2020 - BradE wrote:

  Two bottles. A good if not great wine, that was showing well.

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