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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.6 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 38 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tlogan9 on 4/25/2024 & rated 92 points: Very nice blend. Lighter than expected base on the ABV. Prominent acid on the palate. Lingering flavor of raspberry. (542 views) | | | Tasted by Reddark on 8/15/2023 & rated 94 points: 레드커런트, 감초, 담배,페퍼,가죽. 15.5%, 미디엄 풀바디. 긴피니쉬. Very good. (1941 views) | | | Tasted by Brent25 on 5/19/2023 & rated 89 points: Clear medium ruby; clean medium plus nose of red cherry liquor, blackberry cordial, raspberry jam, barnyard, rubber and florality; dry; high acidity; medium tannins; high alcohol; medium plus body; pronounced flavour intensity; palate has fruit payoff with addition of candied fruit, brandy, baking spices, raisins and cocoa; long finish; do not drink - wait another 3 years; a hot mess and almost undrinkable out of the bottle - all alcohol and Koolaid; a 1 hour decant helped a little; hoping that the wine will settle down with additional age and/or that this was a bad bottle (2231 views) | | | Tasted by VAGenius on 5/5/2023 & rated 91 points: 60 minute decant. Vague, light nose of cherry and red fruits. Powerful palate of red cherry, peppery red fruits, and a note red Kool-Aid with acidity that leads into an equally powerful finish of leather, candied fruits, red plum, cranberry and garrigue. It's balanced, but didn't show as well as expected. Not sure it'll improve but we'll see. (2159 views) | | | Tasted by WineDuq on 4/29/2023 & rated 88 points: Alcohol and stewed/baked fruit on the nose. No freshness. 2015 was the same. Shows all of its 15.5% alcohol. Ripe fruit sweetness, but the alcohol dominates and the baked notes not to my taste. Seems like a relic from the Parkerized wines of the early 2000s. Pass on this producer in the future. (2433 views) | | | Tasted by Bottle Dog on 1/7/2023 & rated 93 points: After PnP. Dark ruby red. Awesome forest floor on the nose. Roses, dark red fruit, and earthy mushrooms. Medium body with lovely tannins and bright acidity giving it lingering goodness. Really enjoyable to drink and I expect will still improve. (2643 views) | | | Tasted by Andybe on 11/21/2022 & rated 97 points: Bob Seger and his silver bullets already knows..still the same ! (2143 views) | | | Tasted by yasha on 8/10/2022 & rated 95 points: Great CDP (2506 views) | | | Tasted by VAGenius on 12/30/2021 & rated 94 points: Nose of fresh thyme, dark cherry, red earth, and sawdust. Black cherry palate with leather, black olive, menthol, smoked meat, black plum, and minerals. Peppery, spicy start to the finish shows some initial firmness followed by a rush of dry raspberry, cherry, dried oregano, iron, and finally old oak, wet dirt, and chewy tannins. Opened up after a couple hours in the glass - maybe needs another year or two? (3186 views) | | | Tasted by AndyStuttgart on 12/25/2021 & rated 95 points: Great red berries, raspberry, cherry, sloe, smooth and creamy, well balanced with a chalk base. Really nice - needs time to open. (2447 views) | | | Tasted by Eric on 12/19/2021: A mini-celebration of Philippe Cambie; 12/19/2021-12/25/2021: Wonderful, soaring, white pepper, pine and garrigue over a concentrated, Grenache driven palate. At first it seemed sharp and a bit volatile, but with time and air it showed more of the red-fruited raspberry and cherry of a more traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Vibrant and spicy, a powerful wine but the more it airs the more traditional it tastes. Labeled at 15.8%, it doesn't feel anything like that. Tons of herbes de provence and potpourri, spicy and delicious. (3382 views) | | | Tasted by PapaGreenz on 7/31/2021 & rated 93 points: Excellent, decant 1-2 hours, very expressive / delicious (3087 views) | | | Tasted by Nutty08 on 6/20/2021 flawed bottle: Old sample from a week or so prior. Oxidized. But seemed to have great fruit underneath. (2752 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 6/6/2021 & rated 95 points: As CdPs go, this wine is just incredible, and the best quality for price that I have yet tried in an excellent vintage. My 5th bottle, this was very open and showy from the get go, although it improved in the glass over an hour.
Dark garnet, with nose of black cherry and anise, it is full and expansive. Noticeable but not distracting alcohols add to the bouquet. I would agree with a prior post that there is not much garrigue/savory happening here. But it is a melange of red and dark fruits with cinnamon spice, with good acidity and persistence. (2549 views) | | | Tasted by samatoid on 5/12/2021 & rated 95 points: I've been drinking this wine for about 2 years now - maybe I've shared 8-12 bottles. I have not noted garrigue once. Just to check my sanity I pulled out fresh bag of herbs de Provence and didn't note any similarity (neither did my wife). The nose is either strong fennel or red licorice (some fruity flavoring with anise). The palate is harder to describe, but very satisfying and long. The palette is a perfect blend of fennel with rich grape juice. I wouldn't call it berries or cherries. It's like a young Napa cab (like a Dunn Napa) with a fennel overtone. This wine will be fun to track for the next 20 years - I will have to pace myself. (2288 views) | | | Tasted by Isaac L on 1/31/2021 & rated 92 points: Deep purple in the glass. Still obviously in its youth, but very nicely balanced with freshness, good plum and dark cherry fruit, and garrigue, pepper and spice. Wore its 15.5% alcohol well without being unctuous or over-extracted. Stood up well to smoky Texan bbq. (2927 views) | | | Tasted by Get Real on 12/25/2020 & rated 92 points: Now my go to wine for Christmas as a great match with ham. Deep garnet colour, great structure, aromatic some black currant. Will be interesting to see how it develops with age. (2217 views) | | | Tasted by cubswinws on 6/24/2020 & rated 93 points: Very nice wine with good deep plum color and a wonderful freshness with spice and touch of garrigue on the finish. (3228 views) | | | Tasted by DannyB1991 on 5/25/2020: Old vine mouth feel, jammy but not over extracted. Well balanced, paired well with ribeye. Nice structure and strong tannins on the mid palate. Long finish, cherries and bramble. Surprisingly, also paired very well with a basic chocolate cake - the slight sugar balanced the tannins beautifully. Given the tannins and the balance, I'd expect this to age very well (3182 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 4/26/2020 & rated 94 points: Pours clear and clean, with red and black raspberry, spice, garrigue, and some rainbow peppercorn. Medium weighted, with a moderate concentration and a notable balance overall. Finishes with some black cherry and pepper notes. Drinks fine now with a 2+ hour decant, or hold over the next 5+ years. 92-94+ points. A little less concentrated and intense than some of the other major players in the CdP world. (5562 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 3/29/2020 & rated 93 points: A lot more pepper, garrigue and brine on this bottle. Fruit is settling down a bit already and has lost some of the juicy punch. Let the rest lie a while. Not too roasted and alcohol not too high. I predict it will hold just fine (2920 views) | | | Tasted by Double-A on 1/8/2020 & rated 95 points: Brooding and savoury nose with smoked nut, leather, dried cherries, and Christmas cake aromas. Rich, lush and assertive palate with great acidity and precision; really shows off as a exceptional quality wine with minerality, complexity, and intensity.
5/5 (3371 views) | | | Tasted by JGvine on 12/1/2019: Superior Chateau du pap (2887 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Fool on 11/3/2019 & rated 97 points: (Decanted for three hours.) I had this wine beside the 2010 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée. Frankly I feared it would pale in such august company. Man, was I wrong! First is had a very nice and reassuring black plum color. The nose was fresh, lively and scented with black fruits, spring herbs, crushed lavender and a savory “cheesy” funk I associate with some red Burgundies. Though powerful and nearly full bodied in the mouth, the wine was nevertheless beautifully textured. Specifically, the plum jam, ripe blackberry, medjool date, anise cake and mushroom soup flavors were very lush yet smooth, layered and elegant. The moderately large tannins were well integrated and perfectly track the forty-second finish. Yes, the wine really is that good, and then some. For what it is worth I bought a case. 97++points. (3168 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 9/23/2019 & rated 95 points: Wow, this was aromatically very open and firing on all cylinders. Lots of anise, lavander, with both dark and red fruits. Texturally very sound with good supportive acidity, if anything, the balance tilts a little to the lean side. I love the youthfulness of this wine, perhaps the buy of the vintage for me in terms of QPR. Will develop well for many years, although admittedly, I don't tend to like CdP past about 15-18 years. (3493 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Bosquet des Papes Producer website - Read more about Bosquet des PapesBosquet des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Chante Le Merle Vieilles VignesProduction
10,000 to 13,000 bottles per year
Terroir/Average age of the vineyard
Clay-limestone soil with rolled pebbles which store up heat during the day and restore it to the vine stocks during the night.
Mix of all types of soil of the appellation (pebble, clay, and sand)
Selection of vines of 80 to 90 years old
Blend
80% Grenache Noir
10% Syrah
10% Mourvèdre
Wine making/Aging
Traditional wine making thermoregulated concrete vats
No de-stemming
Some unballastings and daily pumping-over carried out with great care.
Fermentation of skins: approximately 35 days
Aging in large oak barrels and new deim-muids (15-20%): 12 to 18 months
Source:CHANTE-LE-MERLE-VIEILLES-VIGNES.pdfRed Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Southern Rhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Southern Rhone Valley
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation - Read more about Chateauneuf du Pape
Another site on this appellation
Vineyards on weinlagen-info
"As I have written many times in the past, the sweet spot for drinking Châteauneuf du Papes is usually the first 5-6 years after the vintage. Then they seem to go through an adolescent, awkward, and sometimes dormant stage, only to re-emerge around year 10-12, where the majority of wines are often fully mature. The best of them will continue to hold on to life (but rarely improving) beyond 15-20 years. It is only the exceptional Châteauneuf du Papes that will evolve for 20-25+ years, and those are indeed a rarity. However, things may be improving dramatically in terms of the longevity of Châteauneuf du Pape, although Grenache-dominated wines, the vast majority of wines produced in the appellation, are wines that do not have the polyphenol (extract and tannin) content of top Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, or Syrah-based wines. Nevertheless, the younger generation in Châteauneuf du Pape has taken seriously the farming in the vineyards. There are more organic and biodynamically run vineyards here than in any other appellation of France. The yields, which were already low, are even lower today (20-35 hectoliters per hectare), and of course, the proliferation of top luxury and/or old-vine cuvées gives a significant boost to the number of wines that will evolve past 25 or 30 years. The advantage of these wines is their broad window of drinkability." - Robert Parker
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