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• Wine Fool Likes this wine: 97 points

  August 31, 2015 - (Decanted for two hours.) The color is medium ruby red with brilliant highlights. The nose is slightly reticent but emerges with a little coaxing. Ripe cherry and blackberry scents are joined by smoke, coffee, wet soil and a spicy blue flower component. The wine is medium-bodied, supple and sexy in the mouth. The cherry, boysenberry and blackberry flavors are very pure, lively and buoyant. More understated flavors of coffee and soil "ground" the fruit and enhance overall complexity. The tannins are very suave and the wine ends with an impressively long finish that is both creamy and silky. All of the above suggests that this beautiful wine will be long-lived. What a perfect example of an elegant southern Rhône wine! Those who say they do not like Châteauneuf-du-Pape should really try this one: in size, weight, texture and nerviness, it is vaguely reminiscent of a fine red Burgundy.

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