1998 Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (64) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  10/13/2020 - short and confused wrote: 94 Points

  This was pretty amazing at 22 years old. As eoin harkins says: dried red berries, spice and worn leather. The fruit is there but reminds me of a dried floral arrangement and in all the best ways. There is also great acidity. This was so much more energetic than I expected. I opened it imagining a tired bottle that would be intersting to check in on a week night. My last bottle deserved a much bigger stage. Ah well. Really good wine!

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  2/3/2018 - Lucken Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Still drinking beautifully

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  10/28/2017 - eoinhharkins wrote: 92 Points

  Another enjoyable showing tonight, takes a little to show the wonderful dried red berries, worn leather, spices and dried violets, the plate offers a similar profile with well integrated and soft tannins, medium acidity and medium plus length. Sadly my last bottle

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  6/23/2017 - mflesh wrote:

  My experience of this one was almost exactly opposite to the Harkins note where this one took an hour to get going. This bottle was awesome after cork pop but just really crashed after an hour. Lots of floral notes were noted by others right after this one was opened. I came around to this one after approximately 90 minutes and was not that impressed. This was more of a hawthorne kind of floral. Not the floral bouquet that was noted previously. The palate didn't resemble the higher echelon of CDP.

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  5/20/2017 - eoinhharkins wrote:

  This showed well after and hour on r so decant, dried red fruits,spices, dried earth and hint of dried red floral on the nose, palate is quite clean and smooth with medium plus acidity and length really enjoyed drinking this

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