Community Tasting Notes 11

• Eric wrote:

  April 16, 2024 - Châteauneuf-du-Pape with my boy!; 4/15/2024-4/17/2024 (Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Southern Rhône, France): Chewy, Grenache, earthy.

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• ERU wrote: 95 points

  December 3, 2023 - Decanted 3 hours. Nose of spice, black fruit and blood. In the mouth, it’s spice and blood. And it’s hot. Sooo deep, but a little too hot for me. No surprise with a listed 15.5% alcohol content. Let it sit in the glass 2 hours to give it more air. Swirled occasionally. It then tasted—gonna get descriptive here—like a bouquet of garrigue and peppercorns dipped in blood that was placed in an air-tight leather box and left for a long spell. It was fabulous. The heat had subsided to a level that let the wine strut its stuff. This was, unfortunately, my only bottle of this vintage. Sad! If I had another, I’d wait at least a year to open.

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• KJD45$ Likes this wine: 97 points

  September 10, 2022 - My oh my……took out of Eurocave….decanted…back into wine art at red temp…
  First blush…Oh no…. Another over hyped CDP… Not much nose and flavor was one dimensional……fuck……went and attended the grill…
  Cooked dinner….came back poured a glass….WTF!!!…. Is this the same wine??……monstrous beast….deepest purple hued….nose leaps forth…blue black fruits..touch vanilla..something like a creme brûlée….bit of spice..touch alcohol…. Fantastic nose…
  Legs form quicker than you would imagine…..
  Intense berry on the tongue hitting with tannins and acidity in the best way possible…tobacco, tar, leather meld with delicious fruit in the mid palate..leading to a touch drying fruited leather tar finish….
  Fucking fantastic now but seriously….this isn’t even close to being ready for prime time…. When the beast gets tamed this is going to be unbelievable… I would say 5 years at a minimum…..
  Hard to believe this much can get packed into a bottle of pressed grapes!
  4 days later…last large glass…deepest of dense purple black hue…
  Nose is lavendar, blackberry touch alcohol whiff….
  Palate is dense chocolate covered blue and black berry…pretty much same notes as before…
  To me it indicates this bad boy needs quite a lot of time to settle the tannins and let it’s metamorphis occur….
  Great now….greaterness in store…

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• ElJefeTX Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 17, 2022 - An expressive CdP in the glass with a shimmering, dark ruby hue. The nose is complex but does not overpower with refined aromas of warm currants, wild raspberry, pit smoke and Chinese 5 spice. Well-balanced and beautifully textured on the palate revealing notes of ripe blackberry, cocoa powder, dried herbs and granite like minerality. Semi-sweet tannins provide for a long, savory finish.

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• Tige wrote:

  March 26, 2022 - Violet foncé.
  Fruits murs au nez, avec un peu d'épices.
  Texture ample, acidité faible, tanins faibles, longueur moy, petits fruits confits sucrés.
  Un peu lourd. Pas mauvais, mais trop cher et pour le court terme selon mes goûts.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de la Vieille Julienne
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation Les Hauts Lieux
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Codes 3760169470959, 3760169471277

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• Pending Delivery 23 (2%)
• In Cellars 927 (77%)
• Consumed 249 (21%)

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