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1995 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Maxim
Red Rhone Blend
- France
- Rhône
- Southern Rhône
- Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Community Tasting Notes 11
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sjwshiraz wrote:
November 9, 2023 - Not corked !!!! And drinking about perfectly. This is an essence of CDP. Ripe dark fruits, macerated red cherries and a bit of olive and pepper. Surprisingly fresh with very good acidity. Not at all OTT or figgy like many more recent deluxe cuvée CDPs and 'only' 14%. No hint of Brett either.
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sjwshiraz wrote:
June 29, 2021 - Another &$@king corked bottle. Laurence reckons half the corks used were defective
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Bill Bucklew wrote: 95 points
January 16, 2016 - For me this was stunning: very tight out of the bottle, dark fruits, skewing towards black fruit and olive on the nose....open and expanding mixed black red fruits on the palate, very refined with integrated tannins, after a few hours in a wide bottom decanter, it was still holding together nicely, we tasted this alongside the 1995 reserve and the Maxim was a bit more open out of the bottle and decidedly darker fruit than the reserve. Also, 14% alcohol versus 13.5% for the same year reserve
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KingSlacker999 wrote: flawed
June 26, 2015 - So sad when unicorn bottles are flawed. Not corked, not cooked, but not all there, sad because you could tell what might have been. Very odd, very tart red fruit finish.
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cadamson Likes this wine: 94 points
July 21, 2013 - Not as good as the bottle from a few years back, but still very good, lots of dark fruit and pepper. Chewy, good tannins. Plenty of years left.
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By Richard Jennings
11/17/2006 (link)(Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Maxim) Cork on the nose signaled the night's biggest disappointment, as this is a very rare bottling that I'm unlikely to get a chance to try again; rich and concentrated on the palate, but the palate was still sapped by the cork taint. Dang! (Only 604 bottles produced, and reportedly only 18 distributed to the U.S.)
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1995
- Type Red
- Producer Domaine du Pégau
- Varietal Red Rhone Blend
- Designation Cuvée Maxim
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Rhône
- SubRegion Southern Rhône
- Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 21 (66%)
- Consumed 11 (34%)
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- CountryFrance
- RegionRhône
- SubRegionSouthern Rhône
- AppellationChâteauneuf-du-Pape
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