2020 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  1/5/2024 - DevenStephens Likes this wine: 94 Points

  First time trying this CdP even tho it's pretty popular and I drink a lot of Southern Rhone wines! Ruby red color, very pure looking. The nose is intense but elegant, red fruits, cherries, garrigue and spice. Some florals as well but nothing specific comes to mind. On the palate it's a very lively wine, a lot of different red fruits come to mind, red cherry, raspberry, strawberry. Some herbs and florals again. Spice and a touch of licorice, chocolate and kirsch on the finish which is long. Very high quality stuff with a long life ahead of it.

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  9/13/2023 - Alfaro wrote: 94 Points

  Still young and tight, will be delicious in time

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  7/3/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Ahoy there shipmates! Pirate Admiral Leve has nailed his colours to the mast and in tasting terms I like the cut of his jib!
  
  I love the contrasts between 2019 and 2020 in so many parts of France, Italy and Germany (I don't have the tasting mileage to comment of the Iberians). I think both are indisputably excellent to great vintages; 2019 tends to offer muscle and punch along with luscious fruit, whilst 2020 seems to be a little more feline and less heavily built, but still offering glorious fruit. Some will find more in one of these vintages to please them, some in the other.
  
  This is easy to drink from the moment the cork is wrestled out the bottle (and very difficult until you do), but it is definitely showing its best on day 2. Regardless it is classical in its styling and characters.
  
  All pirates and, especially, aspiring Zen pirates should be drinking this. The ship's surgeon recommends a bottle with breakfast. I recommend this vintage for making love and the 2019 for making war. Ideally, you should be doing both each day as part of a balanced lifestyle - the yin and yang of the pirate; or is it the Tao of piracy? You work it out, but I suggest before my 2-bottle miracle cure takes full effect.
  
  PS: Why are there so few reviews of this vintage of this popular wine? What is wrong with the drinking public? Are you all such utter bastards that you can't even be trusted to review these wines in a timely fashion? Lift your collective game, or else I will raise the red pennant and sail your way and adapt and adopt the call of Tippermuir against thee "For Telegraphe and no quarter!"

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  1/27/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points

  Flowers and cherries with a touch of spice form the core of the wine. On the palate. there is softness and elegance that you feel instantly. The fruit is polished, silky and elegant with a purity to the fruit on the mid-palate and in the finish. Produced from a blend of 60% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 15% Mourvedre and 5% Cinsault, along with other, assorted red and white grape varieties. 60-70% of the harvest is destemmed. Drink from 2023-2037.

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