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• WindFlyer Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 14, 2024 - deep dark ruby with no bricking and medium-plus body. somewhat reticent nose of red cherry, garrigue, black olives, bay leaf and hints of lavender. more generous in the mouth, but still somewhat restrained with a mellow entry of dark fruit over black tea; it opens in the midpalate with fresh raspberry, some meaty notes of game, and a savoury balsamic streak accented by herbs. white pepper leads into the moderately long finish.
  
  seemingly mature, but with life ahead still… a delightful, nuanced CdP.
  
  14% stated AbV; 80% Grenache/ 10% Mourvèdre/ 10% Syrah; all varietals are co-fermented; some Grenache vines go back to 1901.

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• pbaek wrote:

  October 30, 2023 - One senses the lightness of the 2004 vintage. Airy and elegant cherry fruit, white pepper and garrigue. Balance and precision, nothing sticks out. With Niels at La Contadine.

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• beatles wrote: 93 points

  October 30, 2023 - It's all about the white pepper here. Showing the vintage's cool, blue attitude with Grenache playing the base. Garrigue galore, plenty of local feel. Open for business, certainly - but no hurry.
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• pbaek wrote:

  July 17, 2023 - Very local with marks of cherry fruit, white pepper and garrigue. Elegant and lighter in style compared to the 2003 and 2005. Great with lamb in garlic/rosemary sauce. There’s 10 years left here, easily.

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• blank blank wrote: 90 points

  February 3, 2022 - Quite good - screams aged CdP with its garrigue / stewed fruit / soy sauce. Not spirits, tannins resolved. Even has some acid, enough to hold it together. This is the CdP I remember from before Parker and climate change. Yum.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Clos du Mont-Olivet
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation La Cuvée du Papet
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Code 3760108000025

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• In Cellars 368 (53%)
• Consumed 317 (46%)

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