Community Tasting Note

DrewGoin wrote:

Sunday, July 22, 2007 - Mont-Redon's 2001 vintage Chateauneuf-du-Pape tastes beyong its years in maturity. Typically more elegant and subtle than many of its neighbors, the simple, silky style adopted by the winery has left this wine with few tannins or copigments to eat while it sleeps in the bottle. As a result, the color and flavors resemble a wine much older than 6 years.

Do not confuse my statements with an assertion that this wine is past its prime. Rather than tasting tired or insipid, the Mont-Redon CdP 2001 exhibits flavors and aromas of dried flowers (rose petals), dried fruits (berries) and leather. The tight tannic structure common in more expensive wines (i.e. Beaucastel) in their youth would continue to obfuscate the ripe fruit flavors of a CdP of similar age yet, even without decanting, the tannins in the Mont-Redon have long since melted away. The color of the wine in the glass is brick red, with slight browning around the rim. I tasted this same wine in the summer of 2005, and the fruit was fresh and dismissively simple, soft. Two years later, the wine has evolved into something much more complex.

Enjoy your bottles now. With such rapid development taking place, I fear that it will not take long for the wine to begin its downward journey.

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