2004 Clos du Mont-Olivet Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvée du Papet

Community Tasting Notes (53) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  2/14/2024 - WindFlyer Likes this wine: 93 Points

  deep dark ruby with no bricking and medium-plus body. somewhat reticent nose of red cherry, garrigue, black olives, bay leaf and hints of lavender. more generous in the mouth, but still somewhat restrained with a mellow entry of dark fruit over black tea; it opens in the midpalate with fresh raspberry, some meaty notes of game, and a savoury balsamic streak accented by herbs. white pepper leads into the moderately long finish.
  
  seemingly mature, but with life ahead still… a delightful, nuanced CdP.
  
  14% stated AbV; 80% Grenache/ 10% Mourvèdre/ 10% Syrah; all varietals are co-fermented; some Grenache vines go back to 1901.

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  10/30/2023 - pbaek wrote:

  One senses the lightness of the 2004 vintage. Airy and elegant cherry fruit, white pepper and garrigue. Balance and precision, nothing sticks out. With Niels at La Contadine.

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  10/30/2023 - beatles wrote: 93 Points

  It's all about the white pepper here. Showing the vintage's cool, blue attitude with Grenache playing the base. Garrigue galore, plenty of local feel. Open for business, certainly - but no hurry.
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  7/17/2023 - pbaek wrote:

  Very local with marks of cherry fruit, white pepper and garrigue. Elegant and lighter in style compared to the 2003 and 2005. Great with lamb in garlic/rosemary sauce. There’s 10 years left here, easily.

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  2/3/2022 - blank blank wrote: 90 Points

  Quite good - screams aged CdP with its garrigue / stewed fruit / soy sauce. Not spirits, tannins resolved. Even has some acid, enough to hold it together. This is the CdP I remember from before Parker and climate change. Yum.

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