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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 95 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Hamersly on 4/1/2024 & rated 92 points: Ripe and delicious with plenty of sweet cherry. I fall on the side of those who recommend drinking within the next couple of years. (222 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 7/9/2023: Decanted and served. Dull ruby to the edge. Complex aromas of dark fruit, licorice, olive, and bark. Full bodied but not ponderous. Magical mix of succulent, perfectly ripe fruit, spice, and savory elements. Sappy, long, and bolstered by terrific acidity and round, ripe tannins. Delicious now but impressively young with miles to go. Outstanding wine by any measure. (1217 views) | | | Tasted by pbaek on 4/22/2023: This is singing. Wonderful, sweet cherry fruit and white pepper notes, old Grenache showing through. Lively, elegant, no hard edges. This will be long lived. (1057 views) | | | Tasted by canan on 4/16/2023 & rated 92 points: Dark and lush blackberry fruit but also some aged flavors of mushrooms and wet leaves. It still feels like a fairly young wine but it is certainly ready to drink.
The tannins are nicely integrated but the alcohol is dominating a little bit. (936 views) | | | Tasted by WJK4 on 3/11/2023 & rated 90 points: I have the good fortune to have many older CDP in my cellar. The Mont Olivet is drinking well but its best day is likely behind it and not a lot of future in it. If you have it, drink up. (952 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 7/8/2022: Dull ruby center, not perfect clarity due to light sediment present. Bark and licorice dominate the aromas. Medium weight but still chewy. Some ripe cherry, herbs, and dark, savory flavors with excellent acidity and a tannic finish. Impressive wine that has not yet peaked. Older, more brooding style of Chateauneuf, certainly not an old vine Grenache sweet raspberry bomb! (1877 views) | | | Tasted by Everything Ahead on 1/4/2022 & rated 93 points: After a series of bad bottles over the years, we finally opened up a good bottle of this vintage. Initially mostly prunes and alcohol on the nose, but over time in the glass fruitcake spice, blueberry, concord grape and herbs de provence. Extremely unflitered, with the appearance of a grape milkshake, but a very nice wine, and still has some tannic structure, suggesting that I leave my remaining couple of bottles for a couple more years. I'm more of a Bordeaux guy these days, as I find CDP to be simultaneously too high-alcohol and too lean in the midpalate, but with cassoulet this CDP really worked well. Sante! (1847 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 11/14/2021 & rated 94 points: Showing much better than last time, this has really arrived as a grand neuf. Cool wine yet with all the fixers intens with sweet, lush fruit and local feel, this is a real 2005, upright and concentrated. Will live.
Bagnols-en-Forêt (2411 views) | | | Tasted by Everything Ahead on 10/11/2021 flawed bottle: This bottle was horribly stinky from Brett and also very tired yet not corked; down the drain. The sad thing is I've had a few bottles over the years and this wine never impressed at all. Bought soon after release and stored in a cool cellar, I can't blame storage, maybe just a lot of bottle/lot variation with this wine? If you have a stash, I recommend trying one soon to see if you have the "good" or the "bad" bottles ... (1784 views) | | | Tasted by pbaek on 2/25/2021: From my stash bought at the domaine in France. Calm and collected, this is quite cool and subtle, the fruit is at the lighter red end of the spectrum and there are marks of white pepper and Provençal herbs. Still young with plenty of fruit, this has many years left. Lovely wine, actually. (2113 views) | | | Tasted by valecnik on 12/25/2020 flawed bottle: Cooked. Smells very jammy. Has a hot, boozy note that dominates it. Not right. How sad. (1524 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 4/28/2020 & rated 92 points: Cool, calm and collected, quite tight, well structured; needs more time, I think, not as open for business as some 2005's right now.
#PBinthegarden (2455 views) | | | Tasted by jerhardt on 3/17/2020 & rated 87 points: Listed at 15.5% and acts like it. Not overtly hot, and some would argue it is in balance, which is fair...i.e. everything is big. Not bad, but also not my preferred sytle. (1673 views) | | | Tasted by grapist on 3/8/2020 & rated 95 points: 30 minutes in decanter and could have used hours. But still a treat. I have repurchased this three times and would buy more. Can’t think of a wine I would rate higher at a lower price (1639 views) | | | Tasted by short and confused on 3/8/2020 & rated 87 points: Tired (1396 views) | | | Tasted by grapist on 2/8/2019: disappointed. not good upon opening. Got considerably better after time in the decanter but never approached the near greatness of previous bottles. (2189 views) | | | Tasted by Rollerball on 2/2/2019 & rated 95 points: Enjoyed next to the '07. Just as you'd expect from the two vintages, the '05 is more finessed, structured, and restrained and is still on its way up. (1911 views) | | | Tasted by tward on 1/27/2019 & rated 91 points: I agree with DRWINE2001 that this is not near fully mature. Very nice fruit and fine, not at all heavy, more aromatic with a bay leaf and garrigue nose with bright red fruits and some spice. Subtle and should be capable of developing into something excellent with time. My guess is also about five years. (1790 views) | | | Tasted by yasha on 1/5/2019 & rated 94 points: Very good (1804 views) | | | Tasted by KPB on 10/31/2018 & rated 91 points: A chicken coop aroma on opening dissipated after an hour or so. Then the wine is lovely and mature. Ripe raspberry and garrigue on the nose, and a soft, lush palate. Delicious! (2192 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 10/7/2018 & rated 92 points: Lively, dark berry, mocha, mint, tar and spice flavor with plentiful fine tannins. Racy. (1500 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 6/12/2018: Ruby. Much darker register of fruit than the Cailloux. Bigger, chewier, more tannic. Ripe red and black fruit with broad, tannic finish. My word, this is impressive and not nearly mature. Should be a classic, old style Chateauneuf (i.e., not overly sweet or too syrupy) with 5 or 10 more years in bottle. (2350 views) | | | Tasted by the godfather on 4/29/2018: Massive, works with meat (1983 views) | | | Tasted by JOsgood on 4/28/2018: Huge wine. A bit hard to judge. Showed some elegance despite being a bull in a china shop. (2170 views) | | | Tasted by Rollerball on 4/20/2018 & rated 94 points: A long, lush, just-perfectly-intense, complex, and special wine. The volume is on four and the speakers are great. (1959 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (10/30/2014)
(Clos Mont Olivet, Cuvée du Papet Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Bonus Reviews (7/19/2008)
(Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvée du Papet) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, January/February 2007, IWC Issue #130
(Clos du Mont Olivet Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee du Papet) Subscribe to see review text. | By Lyle Fass
Rockss and Fruit (10/25/2007)
(Mont-Olivet Chateauneuf Du Pape "Cuvee Papet") This was way too young. Like drinking olive juice spiked with hardcore cherry fruit. This bottle had been open for four days and was still wickedly tannic. There was impressive fruit with great persistence but this wine needs 20-30 years. It really had a dense structure. |
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| Clos du Mont-Olivet Producer website - Read more about Clos du Mont Olivet
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(another) U.S. Importer (Addt'l Info)Red 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
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"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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