2020 Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/12/2023 - Cailles wrote: 87 Points

  Tasted double blind. This might be awell-made wine, technically on a good level but. I don’t really care for all the floral and perfumy notes. It’s just not something I particularly like. Fans of the style might score it higher.
  
  TN: Strange nose, almost sparkling, so much floral and orchard fruits. Same on the palate, some smoke, but especially lots of fruit and floral aromas, some canned fruit. Good acidity, better than what you would expect. Quite long and not too oily in texture. Definitely a well-made wine.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no decanting needed.

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  3/12/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Blind tasting session. 100% Grenache blanc. Rich and ripe, tropical fruit, white flowers, apple pie, good but a little too sumptuous for me.

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  3/10/2023 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 90 Points

  cold tobacco, herbs, spice (pepper), flowery aromas and some exotic and even redish fruits.
  
  on the palate rather bold and full bodied.
  
  not my style. lacking freshness.

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  3/10/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted blind. Enormously smoky, which is balanced by intense floral notes, like a meadow in the Spring. More tropical type of fruit such as Lichi, but not in an extracted way. Creamy palate with acidity emerging only well into the finish. A distinct wine with a strong character, but rather limited in terms of aroma profile and lacking freshness. Reminded me actually a lot of a Viognier.

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  1/27/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Flowers, white peach, honeydew, orange rind, pineapple and spice. Fresh, lush, round, oily, elegant and polished, the sweetness in the fruit, especially the whit peach notes stand out on the palate and in the finish. The wine is a complex blend of close to equal percentages of all 6 allowable, white wine grape varietal. The wine was produced from yields of 25 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2023-2033.

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