1989 Les Cailloux (Lucien et André Brunel) Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  4/30/2021 - 559Cheers Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Beautiful and magic. It was a perfect bottle. Was opened a year ago. I fought for this bottle in auction and it was well worth it.

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  1/24/2021 - booksmiths Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What a lovely surprise.
  Well worth cellaring to yield this silky gem.
  Excellent with grilled New York strip steaks.

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  1/4/2020 - KeithAkers wrote: 94 Points

  Wines that F**k to kick off the new year (Bob's, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL): Nose: The nose is deep, complex, and funky with tobacco, black cherries, black raspberries, white pepper, all sorts of savory notes, leather, earth, licorice, garrigue, and violets. This took a few swirls to wake up and when it did, it was lights out!
  
  Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with resolved, medium tannins and medium acidity. The feel is pure silk and enjoyment with black cherries, black raspberries, garrigue, white pepper, savory notes, earth, leather, and violets.
  
  Overall: This is a gorgeously funky Chateauneuf du Pape that is right in its pomp. There is an immense amount of depth and complexity with the feel being silky and long.

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  2/17/2019 - galewskj wrote: 94 Points

  Chateauneuf and Hermitage: This was the same bottle as Chablis28 and Rocknroller. We were all in agreement. Funky, floral and lightweight for a CDP. There is a lot of iodine and earth. This bottle was in a great place and thoroughly enjoyed by the group.

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  2/17/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 94 Points

  Monthly Tasting Group: Older CDP's and Northern Rhones (P.S. Steak, Mpls): Medium plus orangish brick red color. PNP, drank a glass over 2 hours. Same bottle as Chablis28 and I agree with his take on this. I found the perfume quite captivating from the outset, leather, potpourri, cherry, garrigue, medium plus bodied and fully resolved tannins, nuanced and fully mature in great shape. Started to show some heat after about 90 minutes in glass. Part of a trio of older CdP's, ('94 Beaucastel, '95 Pegau) that simply just shined in all their glory. Will the wines of today ever approximate what we experienced here tonight? Hopefully at least the classicists will.

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