May 5, 2024 - Consistent with note from a few days ago. This went very well with slow cooked lamb.
May 4, 2024 - Wow. Nose showing barnyard, iron, meat. The acidity hits your tongue with a zing like it’s a high end burgundy. Tastes incredibly fresh. The balance of fruit and acidity seems perfect. Resolved tannins medium body and pleasant finish. For me this is near perfect but Pegau is among my favorite. I believe the storage on this was perfect so that probably impacts how great this is.
May 2, 2024 - Fragrant bouquet showing sous-bois and dark cherry. Sweet cherry liqueur profile on the palate. Tannins fully resolved. Long final, good balance if a little heavy, and medium to full bodied.
This is very nice - not over the top CdP - and is showing the fullness of this excellent vintage nicely. Great to drink with heavier fare.
April 30, 2024 - Reading Offline #1 - Alino's Thames Lido Dinner - Mixed Whites and Reds (The Thames Lido, Reading): Some cinnamon sugar dipped fully ripe plums on the nose here. Later some strawberry shortcake. Palate has nice sweet / tart contrast and is mouth-coating. Compact but all in proportion
April 27, 2024 - Drank along with an 07 Clos des Papes. This took a couple hours to really open up. Nose of plums, a hint of vanilla and a little barnyard. Palate was really dominated by the Syrah, with meat and iron, a little dark fruit and some savory notes. Quite rustic but really lovely flavors. At the start of the night the consensus was the 07 CdP was better but by the end we had changed to perhaps equal if not a slight bias for the Pegau.
April 20, 2024 - Definitely showing aged notes, tomato and leather. Resolved tannins, pretty elegant on the palate. Solid aged chateauneuf, I think time to drink.
April 13, 2024 - 60 minute decant. Boozy nose shows dark cherry, brandy, kirsch, and rum cask. Comes off drier on the palate with raspberry preserves, cherry pit, and earthy red fruits along with dried bay leaf and tarragon. Resolved tannins lead into leather, cherry, smoked ham, and dusty acidity and attic notes that grab your throat on the way down. Perhaps the best aged CdP we've had as we usually like them within 10 years.
March 30, 2024 - This seemed tired and not a good representation of what mature Pegau should taste like...
February 27, 2024 - 26 February 2024 - Sun dried tomatoes, stewed Provence herbs, slow cooked red meat, and roasted beetroot on the nose. The nose is so rich. It has a sweetness on the palette, but not really fruit sweetness, more sweetness that you get from slow cooked lamb and again sun dried tomatoes. Again great richness. Plummy, damson fruit. Great length.
February 26, 2024 - Stood up two weeks in advance. Four hour slow oxidation. A deep ruby core fading to a pale ruby outer edge. Slightly closed aromas of damp herbs, bitter cacao nibs, black cherry, and freshly turned earth that failed to intensify despite sufficient time. The palate was all about braised beef and roasted vine tomatoes. Despite respectable levels of concentration and impressive balance this still underwhelmed. A very good wine nevertheless.