2009 Domaine Grand Veneur Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc La Fontaine

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  8/21/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 91 Points

  Medium gold. Yellow fruit, apricot, tropical fruit, herbal notes, almond paste, some spice, and beeswax, with supporting acidity and very good length. Good concentration and complexity, and an oily texture. Benefits from aeration. Shows best at about 14 degrees Celsius. Drink now and over the next three or four years.

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  1/11/2017 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Not as fat but, on a blind, I would've said Hermitage Blanc. This is some serious juice. Notes of honeycomb, marzipan, wax, almonds with floral overtones. On the palate it is drier than the nose leads you to believe. It is rich with good density and viscosity. It sticks to your taste buds.
  Finishes dry and long. This is a great winter white.

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  3/1/2016 - dkfinancial wrote: 92 Points

  Honeyed; lots of plum & pear; faint fennel on finish. Ripe style, but balanced by underlying acidity. 14.5% abv but not noticeable. Toasted oak has integrated well versus a couple years ago (was more toasty, and disjointed). There is some brown butter starting to show on the finish, so I think the drinking window extends through 2017. Solid 91-92 pts for me. Very enjoyable, particularly with pan fried white fish and scallops.

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  4/29/2015 - Wine Canuck wrote: 92 Points

  (Tasted Double Blind) This pours a medium golden straw yellow. It features a rich nose with evident use of some new oak. Some of the fruit verges into the tropical spectrum with some green fruit as well and there is a distinct sawdust note. I wondered about a modern styled white burgundy or a california chardonnay, but something kept pushing me toward the Rhone. The nose was of lemon curd, kiwi, lime, pineapple, white flowers, sawdust, vanilla, marzipan and a touch of crush rocks. The palate doesn't enter with all the perceived sweetness and the fatness I would typically expect from the Southern Rhone and actually had good acidity and a floral finish. All of this had me thinking Marsanne/Rousanne from the Northern Rhone, so I wasn't far off. A very nice, elegant example.

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  4/18/2015 - AWBryce Likes this wine:

  Waxy/tropical nose, touch of heat on the palate, rich and big wine. Long, rich finish.

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