Beautiful nose of violets and fresh garrigue. Round and full on the palate and showing an elevated level of alcohol. It has a fine, silky texture but the finish is a bit short and hot. Mmmm. This wine has an excellent track record for aging even in warm vintages so we'll see where it goes but right now it's a bit closed and off-kilter. 88?
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P: Candied red fruit, drying oak on the finish with dried earth and minerals.
Usually I would say I can stand this type of fruit but it is lacking something that keeps it lively and exciting. Seems so artificially made and/or heavily manipulated.
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Wine-a-palooza (Jason's house): This is a continuation of my belief that you should RUN away from any 100 point CDP. On release when the critics are reviewing them I suspect they show well because of all the fruit they possess. But with some age, there's nothing to back up all that fruit and you are left with a goopy mess.
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Wine Palooza (Eagan, MN): Well low 90s for sure. This is a reviewer that overrated this wine and others buying into it. Hot wine with spice, dark berries, earth and floral notes. Too modern for my tastes. Another joke of 100 point wine. Really Jeb?
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Ripe dark fruit, rich but refined, with a bit of earth and spice and a silky feel. Approachable now, but there is plenty of underlying structure. Excellent for the price.
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This has a beautiful lacy texture and is very refined for a CDP. Full-bodied but lithe with red fruits and a nice hint of the garrigue spices that should develop further with more bottle age. 93+
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Just a super wine, texturally, the wine is lush, opulent, and silky, as well as vibrant, long, and rich. There is a gorgeous sense of purity to the peppery kirsch and black raspberries that stands out. Drink from 2022-2033.
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Quite a different wine at opening than with extended air - and it needed every bit of hours of air (decanting & in partial bottle & glass. At first masculine, brooding, very structured, ripe fruit, quiet nose. I double-decanted 5 times plus 45 minutes in decanted and then in glasses and 1/2 bottle full - and the wine was transformed into luscious black fruit with a red tone vibrancy, kirsch, balanced, aromatic, still with structure, rocks and a mineral tension. Either plan on 3 hours decant or wait 5 years - and it is a very good drink.
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3 hour decant just to be sure. Roast beef with gravy for dinner. Full bodied, very fruity with a long finish and a nice mineral twang. Highly recommended. Will be hard to keep my hands off this.
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Medium red; rich fruity nose, perhaps som eucalyptus; smooth and rich attack, some licorice, nice rich fruity aftertaste; a bit one-dimensional with no extra features, but a well made well “functioning” and well tasting wine
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On the nose this was much tighter than I remembered. With considerable swirling I was rewarded with a bouquet of red fruit and spice (rosemary and sage) and delicate hints of menthol and barnyard. In the mouth, ripe red berries and plum, smoked meat and thyme are juicy and long. There is also a milk chocolate note that brings with it an interesting creaminess. The tannins are quite firm but fundamentally ripe and proportionately sized. While currently quite excellent, in six to eight years this delicious wine will be even more resolved and show just how really good it is. 96++ points.
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Very primary with cherry and strawberry notes. Big luscious and dense wine. Hopefully this comes together a bit. The pieces seem to be there but who knows if they'll all come together.
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Drank from a magnum over the course of 2 nights. Stylistically big but somewhat more restrained than I was expecting. Sweet black fruit, sappy red, pepper, and generous amounts of baking spice. Medium plus intensity with high acidity. Possibly starting to shut down as it didn’t budge or blossom over night. Obviously in need of 10 years.
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Decanted for one hour. This wine is drinking great young and I can only imagine that will improve with time. It's going to be a challenge not to drink the remaining bottles. '16's have been great young in general....I hope they don't shut down any time soon.
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Strawberry and something savory/earthy on the nose. On the palate, liqueur-like cherry and blackberry with notes of white pepper, anise, iodine, and something herbal, with powerful smooth tannins and strong acidity. This is excellent, and it should improve, but it's only an average to good value at about $100.
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Dances on the pallet - a symphony of Rhône perfection, this wine is the best Rhône I’ve tasted in a very long time. Fantastic finish and very enjoyable in its youth. Glad I have 7 more!
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The 2016 Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvée du Papet impresses with its depth, perfumed aromatics and astounding complexity. Wild blackberry, black licorice, raspberry liqueur, fig, dried herb and wet rock notes levitate from the glass and the wine strikes with its stunning concentration on the palate. Alongside the richness of fruit there's ample acid imparting perfect balance. If you can muster the patience I would cellar for an additional 1-2 years and then enjoy this compelling red for the next decade and beyond.
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Second time I've had this in the past couple of months, both times blind. And both times it's been one of my favorites in the tasting. I did not pick up the medicinal note that Allred did, but rather some black fruit and pepper/spice.
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Second Sunday Group: 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Our house): Single blind. Dark fruit, pepper and plum notes. Flavors of spice, red and black fruit and pepper. Develops a slightly candied quality. Has a bit of a medicinal/Nyquil note on the palate as well. Others picked up the medicinal note as well, so I was a bit surprised that this finished as high as it did.
My #7, Domino's #3 Group #3, 47 pts
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Authentic nose of wild garrigue, dark raspberries and smoky minerals. So youthful but with 2 hours of air this is just gorgeous and so promising with a full, round, silky texture and wonderful flavors of rosemary, thyme, lavendar, violets and black raspberry fruit. Finishes with a beautiful mineral crunch and endless garrigue notes. I don’t understand rating such a young wine 100 points (Jeb Dunnuck) but I can at least understand the fact that this wine is so authentic, traditonal and without faults that it could turn into 100 points one day. Having aged this wine in the past, this should be in every Southern Rhone lovers cellars. 95+
The nose was intense, showing crushed raspberry and blackberry, with dusty sweet violets, a zest of orange, asian spice, white pepper and hints of smoke. Notes of black earth and undergrowth can be found in the glass, which are likely to come forward over time. It was creamy on the palate, mixed with stimulating acidity, creating a push and pull of textural depth, as a wave of blue and black fruits swept across the senses, leaving a dry extract of dark inner florals, minerals and spice in their wake. The finish was long and spicy, with hints of pepper, dark fruits, resonating minerality and mounting tannin.
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Red and black fruits...agree on all of the references to silky tannins. This is VERY young, but approachable at this point for me. Probably a lot better in a few years, but worth checking one out at this point.
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This wine exchanges the vintage’s tendency towards flamboyance for a more balanced, elegant, and self-restrained presentation. Very dark in color, it offers up a complex, almost exotic nose of ripe strawberries, lavender, rosemary, leather, musk and turned soil. It is full bodied in the mouth with concentrated flavors of ripe red fruits, garrigue, coffee, meat juice and bitter (but very delicious) iron minerality. These flavors are big yet unfold with a nuanced and layered purity. They also release and subside very gradually, contributing to the long, persistently fresh and uplifted finish. And the ample sweet tannins frame everything flawlessly. This great wine is seamless, seductive and gloriously balanced. 97 points.
4th Saturday Group: Anything but Domestic (Rich & Dana's): Blind. Dark color, opening with a lovely perfumed floral note followed by dark fruit and herbs. Full-bodied with fine tannins. Really nice, pure fruit on the palate. Black fruit, licorice and herb flavors. As this opens in the glass you definitely get that floral/herb garrigue note coming through more and more. At this point I began to suspect this was our bottle of CndP.
Dunnuck bestowed 100 pts on this. I'm not going that far, but it is really damn good, that's for sure. 93-94 pts for me right now, and if you went higher, I wouldn't fault you for it. If this is representative of the vintage as a whole, there's no doubt that the hype is warranted.
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Flowers, pepper, black raspberry and kirsch are in your face. Full bodied, soft and polished, the wine is opulent, rich, full bodied, sweet and pure. There is a wealth of fruit here that fills your palate. The fruit is pure and refined, with silky tannins in the finish.
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11/9/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 88 Points
Beautiful nose of violets and fresh garrigue. Round and full on the palate and showing an elevated level of alcohol. It has a fine, silky texture but the finish is a bit short and hot. Mmmm. This wine has an excellent track record for aging even in warm vintages so we'll see where it goes but right now it's a bit closed and off-kilter. 88?
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10/20/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:
Cracking the whip; 10/16/2023-10/23/2023 (Eagan, MN): N: Some sort of artificial red berries, almost like a Grenache from the Central Coast.
P: Candied red fruit, drying oak on the finish with dried earth and minerals.
Usually I would say I can stand this type of fruit but it is lacking something that keeps it lively and exciting. Seems so artificially made and/or heavily manipulated.
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10/20/2023 - galewskj wrote: 88 Points
Wine-a-palooza (Jason's house): This is a continuation of my belief that you should RUN away from any 100 point CDP. On release when the critics are reviewing them I suspect they show well because of all the fruit they possess. But with some age, there's nothing to back up all that fruit and you are left with a goopy mess.
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10/20/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 90 Points
Wine Palooza (Eagan, MN): Well low 90s for sure. This is a reviewer that overrated this wine and others buying into it. Hot wine with spice, dark berries, earth and floral notes. Too modern for my tastes. Another joke of 100 point wine. Really Jeb?
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2/19/2023 - CHINACAT wrote: 92 Points
Ripe dark fruit, rich but refined, with a bit of earth and spice and a silky feel. Approachable now, but there is plenty of underlying structure. Excellent for the price.
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10/28/2022 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points
This has a beautiful lacy texture and is very refined for a CDP. Full-bodied but lithe with red fruits and a nice hint of the garrigue spices that should develop further with more bottle age. 93+
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10/5/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Just a super wine, texturally, the wine is lush, opulent, and silky, as well as vibrant, long, and rich. There is a gorgeous sense of purity to the peppery kirsch and black raspberries that stands out. Drink from 2022-2033.
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5/8/2022 - hunter4us Likes this wine: 94 Points
Quite a different wine at opening than with extended air - and it needed every bit of hours of air (decanting & in partial bottle & glass. At first masculine, brooding, very structured, ripe fruit, quiet nose. I double-decanted 5 times plus 45 minutes in decanted and then in glasses and 1/2 bottle full - and the wine was transformed into luscious black fruit with a red tone vibrancy, kirsch, balanced, aromatic, still with structure, rocks and a mineral tension. Either plan on 3 hours decant or wait 5 years - and it is a very good drink.
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12/26/2021 - Philbeagles Likes this wine: 95 Points
3 hour decant just to be sure. Roast beef with gravy for dinner. Full bodied, very fruity with a long finish and a nice mineral twang. Highly recommended. Will be hard to keep my hands off this.
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6/5/2021 - Miceri Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium red; rich fruity nose, perhaps som eucalyptus; smooth and rich attack, some licorice, nice rich fruity aftertaste; a bit one-dimensional with no extra features, but a well made well “functioning” and well tasting wine
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8/10/2020 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 96 Points
On the nose this was much tighter than I remembered. With considerable swirling I was rewarded with a bouquet of red fruit and spice (rosemary and sage) and delicate hints of menthol and barnyard. In the mouth, ripe red berries and plum, smoked meat and thyme are juicy and long. There is also a milk chocolate note that brings with it an interesting creaminess. The tannins are quite firm but fundamentally ripe and proportionately sized. While currently quite excellent, in six to eight years this delicious wine will be even more resolved and show just how really good it is. 96++ points.
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7/13/2020 - Wine Buergler Likes this wine: 97 Points
So this absolutely blew us away - figured for a CDP it would be way too young - but this is drinking incredibly well.
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6/24/2020 - Dokendores wrote: 91 Points
Awesome. What a bargin at $64
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3/8/2020 - STM82 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very primary with cherry and strawberry notes. Big luscious and dense wine. Hopefully this comes together a bit. The pieces seem to be there but who knows if they'll all come together.
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2/16/2020 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 95 Points
Drank from a magnum over the course of 2 nights. Stylistically big but somewhat more restrained than I was expecting. Sweet black fruit, sappy red, pepper, and generous amounts of baking spice. Medium plus intensity with high acidity. Possibly starting to shut down as it didn’t budge or blossom over night. Obviously in need of 10 years.
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9/27/2019 - Ufer73 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Decanted for one hour. This wine is drinking great young and I can only imagine that will improve with time. It's going to be a challenge not to drink the remaining bottles. '16's have been great young in general....I hope they don't shut down any time soon.
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5/22/2019 - RichardP wrote: 93 Points
Strawberry and something savory/earthy on the nose. On the palate, liqueur-like cherry and blackberry with notes of white pepper, anise, iodine, and something herbal, with powerful smooth tannins and strong acidity. This is excellent, and it should improve, but it's only an average to good value at about $100.
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3/1/2019 - Dough Boy Likes this wine: 100 Points
Dances on the pallet - a symphony of Rhône perfection, this wine is the best Rhône I’ve tasted in a very long time. Fantastic finish and very enjoyable in its youth. Glad I have 7 more!
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1/4/2019 - Vintopia wrote: 95 Points
The 2016 Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvée du Papet impresses with its depth, perfumed aromatics and astounding complexity. Wild blackberry, black licorice, raspberry liqueur, fig, dried herb and wet rock notes levitate from the glass and the wine strikes with its stunning concentration on the palate. Alongside the richness of fruit there's ample acid imparting perfect balance. If you can muster the patience I would cellar for an additional 1-2 years and then enjoy this compelling red for the next decade and beyond.
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11/18/2018 - thelostverse wrote: 94 Points
Second time I've had this in the past couple of months, both times blind. And both times it's been one of my favorites in the tasting. I did not pick up the medicinal note that Allred did, but rather some black fruit and pepper/spice.
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11/18/2018 - AllRed wrote: 91 Points
Second Sunday Group: 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Our house): Single blind. Dark fruit, pepper and plum notes. Flavors of spice, red and black fruit and pepper. Develops a slightly candied quality. Has a bit of a medicinal/Nyquil note on the palate as well. Others picked up the medicinal note as well, so I was a bit surprised that this finished as high as it did.
My #7, Domino's #3
Group #3, 47 pts
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11/17/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Authentic nose of wild garrigue, dark raspberries and smoky minerals. So youthful but with 2 hours of air this is just gorgeous and so promising with a full, round, silky texture and wonderful flavors of rosemary, thyme, lavendar, violets and black raspberry fruit. Finishes with a beautiful mineral crunch and endless garrigue notes. I don’t understand rating such a young wine 100 points (Jeb Dunnuck) but I can at least understand the fact that this wine is so authentic, traditonal and without faults that it could turn into 100 points one day. Having aged this wine in the past, this should be in every Southern Rhone lovers cellars. 95+
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11/9/2018 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 96 Points
The nose was intense, showing crushed raspberry and blackberry, with dusty sweet violets, a zest of orange, asian spice, white pepper and hints of smoke. Notes of black earth and undergrowth can be found in the glass, which are likely to come forward over time. It was creamy on the palate, mixed with stimulating acidity, creating a push and pull of textural depth, as a wave of blue and black fruits swept across the senses, leaving a dry extract of dark inner florals, minerals and spice in their wake. The finish was long and spicy, with hints of pepper, dark fruits, resonating minerality and mounting tannin.
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10/24/2018 - jaylew1 wrote: 95 Points
Red and black fruits...agree on all of the references to silky tannins. This is VERY young, but approachable at this point for me. Probably a lot better in a few years, but worth checking one out at this point.
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10/8/2018 - gpritsch wrote: 92 Points
too young at this stage. needs to come together. alcohol is a bit overpowering. nice elegance to it though.
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10/5/2018 - Wine Fool Likes this wine: 97 Points
This wine exchanges the vintage’s tendency towards flamboyance for a more balanced, elegant, and self-restrained presentation. Very dark in color, it offers up a complex, almost exotic nose of ripe strawberries, lavender, rosemary, leather, musk and turned soil. It is full bodied in the mouth with concentrated flavors of ripe red fruits, garrigue, coffee, meat juice and bitter (but very delicious) iron minerality. These flavors are big yet unfold with a nuanced and layered purity. They also release and subside very gradually, contributing to the long, persistently fresh and uplifted finish. And the ample sweet tannins frame everything flawlessly. This great wine is seamless, seductive and gloriously balanced. 97 points.
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9/22/2018 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
4th Saturday Group: Anything but Domestic (Rich & Dana's): Blind. Dark color, opening with a lovely perfumed floral note followed by dark fruit and herbs. Full-bodied with fine tannins. Really nice, pure fruit on the palate. Black fruit, licorice and herb flavors. As this opens in the glass you definitely get that floral/herb garrigue note coming through more and more. At this point I began to suspect this was our bottle of CndP.
Dunnuck bestowed 100 pts on this. I'm not going that far, but it is really damn good, that's for sure. 93-94 pts for me right now, and if you went higher, I wouldn't fault you for it. If this is representative of the vintage as a whole, there's no doubt that the hype is warranted.
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9/18/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Flowers, pepper, black raspberry and kirsch are in your face. Full bodied, soft and polished, the wine is opulent, rich, full bodied, sweet and pure. There is a wealth of fruit here that fills your palate. The fruit is pure and refined, with silky tannins in the finish.
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