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• Get Real Likes this wine: 90 points

  November 12, 2021 - Smooth, full bodied with dark garnet colouring and dark fruit. Nose was dark fruit but not especially expressive. Enjoyable without being remarkable

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• Vino_Veritas Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 21, 2020 - Cellared since purchase, perfect cork, fill. Nose of red fruits, especially raspberry, and licorice, furfural and lavender. Medium bodied with a silky finish. Drinking well now and will continue doing so for 5-10 years. Very good but not great-great.

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• dbkitc wrote: 94 points

  August 13, 2018 - This was a total surprise. I have never liked wines from this Domaine as I have found them overblown crap. This bottle, however, is exceptional. I don’t know if it is the vintage or a change in philosophy or both. Deep garnet color is followed by a nose of herbs, earth and red / blue fruits. There is a smoothness and ripe aspect that points to modern but in the most retrained way. A touch of purple plum. If it’s going to be in this style, I want it just like this. Super. (94)

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• dcwino wrote: 87 points

  January 8, 2018 - Mostly cherry fruit, a bit monolithic, a hint of garrigue, cinnamon/due to high alcohol, mineral and noticeable heat. Good concentration, fully integrated, good mineral and a medium finish with noticeable alcohol at the end. YMMV based on alcohol tolerance.

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• ILarsen wrote: 91 points

  December 16, 2017 - Full body strong spicy nose (pepper) we also get some liquorish on the nose - medium+ tannis and acidity but especially the tannins are quite well integrated. The palette gives you get a lot of dark fruit - cherries, black currant - lots of spices pepper especially - a well balanced wine that gives you what you can expect from a good Chateauneuf-du-Pape. The aftertaste is quite weak and that is why we are ending on 91 and not 92.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Clos Saint Jean
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation La Combe des Fous
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Code 3760011911975

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• Pending Delivery 3 (1%)
• In Cellars 188 (47%)
• Consumed 209 (52%)

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