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Manage Subscriptions1989 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Red Rhone Blend
- France
- Rhône
- Southern Rhône
- Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Community Tasting Notes 69
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ttholst wrote: 89 points
July 31, 2023 - Dekantert. Moden og på hell. Mørkt frukt, lakris, sopp, gule krydder.
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TomEndresplass Likes this wine: 92 points
June 15, 2023 - 2hours decant. Amazing wine. Paired with deer and red wine sauce. Big, bold, round, fruity and with multiple layers. Just wow!
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Brain Capers Likes this wine:
January 8, 2023 - Absolutely wow! Cork came out in two pieces, opened an hour before dinner. Just a beautiful spicy CDP. Along with the fruit, some brett, but only as a spice. Just a lovely aged Vieux Telegraph. Back in the day, the monthly flyer would arrive, call KL, order a case, they’d ship, Send an invoice, the wine would arrive before the mail, and I’d send a check.
Those were the days. Really nice wine. -
coremill wrote: 83 points
September 16, 2022 - Good fill, spinning capsule, good cork. Steadily improved over the course of a couple of hours, but was never very good. Ripe, plummy/raisiny fruit aromas, but not a lot of fruit concentration left; the fruit runs out and the alcohol is sticking out on the back end. There's some nice earthiness in the mouth, but this hasn't added much complexity to compensate for the fading fruit. This is several years past its prime at least.
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Mrbuzz Does not like this wine: 82 points
May 5, 2022 - Decanted for an hour, removed sediment, and poured back in bottle to take out. A tired bottle i'm afraid. All dried up fruit, leather, and plum skin sours. Really tried coaxing some life out, but it never really showed anything worthy. Nothing at all flawed...just a shell of what was probably a great wine 10 or so years earlier. I did manage some cherry wood spice, and a little tobacco at times...but faded back to dull leather and tart plum quickly. No black pepper or any grenache red licorice...really disappointing.
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By Richard Jennings
2/1/2011 (link) 92 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Group's #8 (my #8) – 120 pts.; 2, 2, 1, 5 - bricking medium dark red violet color; cherry vapor, dried cherry, garrigue, smoke, red plum, intriguing nose; tasty, most youthful, dried cherry, red plum, mineral palate with firm, sweet tannins; medium-plus finish 92+ points
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By Richard Jennings
9/21/2010 (link) 93 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Medium dark cherry red color; reticent, red berry, baked berry, baked raspberry nose; youthful, tart raspberry, tart cherry, mineral, chocolate palate; medium-plus finish (this bottle still needed another 3-5 years)
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By Richard Jennings
9/9/2010 (link) 91 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Group's #7 (my #6) – 88 pts.; 0, 2, 1, 3 - medium dark cherry red color; mature, earthy, mushroom, faint garrigue nose; tight, tart cherry, red fruit, mineral, red berry palate; medium-plus finish 91+ pts. (this was the tightest, most youthful version of this wine I've tasted--it needed another 4 to 5 years of bottle age)
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By Richard Jennings
10/2/2009 (link) 93 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Dark red violet color with pale meniscus; smoky, mature, tart plum nose; tasty, tart plum, garrigue, black fruit, mineral palate; medium-plus finish 93+ pts.
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By Richard Jennings
2/8/2008 (link) 94 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Deep dark red violet color; leather, beef jus, graphite and black fruit nose; very tasty and deep ripe plum and black fruit palate with allspice; medium-plus finish
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By Richard Jennings
10/4/2007 (link) 93 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Group's #8 (my #4) – 105 pts.; 1, 2, 2, 3 – medium red color; dried cherry, plum and horseradish nose; tasty, tart, spicy plum, soy sauce and horseradish palate with great acidity; medium finish 93+ pts.
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By Richard Jennings
4/30/2004 (link) 94 points(Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Lovely, mature, spicy plum, black fruit palate with well integrated oak, vanilla; long finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1989
- Type Red
- Producer Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
- Varietal Red Rhone Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Rhône
- SubRegion Southern Rhône
- Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
- UPC Code 761503633217
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- Pending Delivery 4 (1%)
- In Cellars 400 (54%)
- Consumed 330 (45%)
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