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| Drinking window: Drink between 2023 and 2033 (based on 33 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 5/3/2024 & rated 85 points: Four hour decant. Very deep, bright magenta color. Black cherry, raspberry, pomegranate, and tar. Smooth, dry, slightly tart palate, with good acidity. Firm tannins on the longish finish.
This is more robust and raw (in a bad way) than my last bottle. It’s a bit of a victim of the vintage. It’s also possible that this specific bottle was a little off. (199 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 8/5/2022 & rated 92 points: Two and a half hour double decant. Very very deep ruby color. Raspberry fondant, red plum, violet, black tea, and subtle tobacco on the nose. Smooth and very dry palate, with dusty acidity. Firm, full, medium intensity tannins on the medium long+ finish.
This continued to improve over an hour of drinking. Nice, but youthful, CdP. (1350 views) | | | Tasted by VAGenius on 3/25/2022 & rated 91 points: Quick decant. Nose of pine needles, black cherry, and oak. Firm black plum, black currant, and black olive palate with oak and notes of spruce. Candied cherry starts the finish, with tight but supple tannins, thyme, and hints of pine tar. Young, fresh-cut oak gives it an edge at the end. Feels like a couple more years in the bottle are needed for this to open up. 91+ points. (689 views) | | | Tasted by oakville72 on 2/24/2022 & rated 93 points: Deep and intense. While still young, surprisingly drinkable now. Great fruit, length and balance. 100% Grenache. (774 views) | | | Tasted by KingBossKoopa on 3/30/2021 & rated 88 points: Laydown another 2-3 years and then revisit (1088 views) |
| Les Halos de Jupiter Producer Website - Read more about Les Halos de JupiterRed 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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