2016 Rotem & Mounir Saouma Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Magis

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  9/30/2023 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Medium golden color. Super beautifully perfumed, with notes of popcorn, some sweet spices, yellow fruit and citrus, some deep mineral notes like wet sone, but also some more marine notes like oystershell, there is also a touch of matchstick reduction, but then also some white flowers. It‘s medium-full bodied, with excellent persistence, there is a touch of tannin and some medium-high acidity providing nice freshness. Super long finish. There is an almost thick viscosity adding a really unique mouthfeel. This beautifully combines Burgundian finesse and aromatics with a Rhône kind of texture. Excellent wine and I would love to see this in a Burgundy blind tasting.

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  4/5/2023 - BoxerBee wrote: 90 Points

  Highly reductive. On the nose, salmiac and smoke. On the palate, tonnes of fat, sweet yellow fruits and mango wrapped in oak. Imposive and impressive rather than elegant. Drink now - 2026.

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  3/21/2023 - MarshallLi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nice oak

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  7/1/2022 - stinkycook Likes this wine:

  Prior bottle seemed a bit disjointed and unmemorable. This one is on form. It is kind of a hybrid of rhone / burg.

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  12/24/2021 - RD59 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dense, rich, long way to go, immense pleasure but hold on to your stash a couple of years

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