2019 Laurent Charles Brotte Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 82.5 points

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  3/2/2022 - Brentw1 Likes this wine: 80 Points

  Ok. This is getting better and more noteworthy. Drunk on a PNP impulse and interestingly at 12 degrees C (my cellar ambient temp) and it was delightful. I won’t bore you all with the tasting terms but a decent nose, nice pallet and a good finish.
  
  Expecting this to get better with another couple of years. It reminded me a bit of a white Chateau Musar. Now there is a white wine that needs time!

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  11/24/2020 - Brentw1 wrote: 85 Points

  OK, went and opened the Aldi CNDP Blanc as instructed! Told Lady Brentw1 that it had to be done as the community were waiting with bated breath.
  
  There’s a reason that you can buy this for £14.99 in Aldi, it’s called cash-flow. I can go back to 2012 when I bought 2008 Sociando Mallet being marketed as perfect with your Christmas dinner! Well maybe after another 6 years in the cellar.
  
  I suspect that the producer has needed to get some money in the coffers and that is why this has been released so early. A quick search on the TWS site reveals 9 alternatives at two to at least three times the price and nothing later than a 2018. Many have a ten year drinking window, so my initial thoughts were that I would be taking one for the team this evening and committing a minor version of wine infanticide.
  
  The first thing I noticed was that it has been bottled with a Diam 5. So I would be assuming that the producer is not expecting it to spend as much time in the cellar as a Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe at £46 a bottle. Fair enough at that price point.
  
  The nose was displaying plenty of unripe peach and flower scent but there was also a slight hint (very slight and lets see if it blows off tomorrow) of nail varnish, the classic sign of a touch of volatile acidity.
  
  The palate was not that exciting with a hint of the hazelnuts talked about on the Aldi website, but mostly a continuation of (riper?) peach and white flowers mixed with a touch of vanilla. I’ll give it credit for a longish finish where the peach and vanilla persisted through but I could not pick up much else. Not an unpleasant wine by any means but I felt it was a touch unresolved and may well improve and be a bit more refined over the next 12 to 18 months, but I wouldn’t want to take it past say another three years.
  
  Tried initially at about 12 degrees but then took it down to 9 which was an improvement as it was much fresher and more floral at the cooler temperature.
  
  In summary. Good value for money compared to other CNDP Blancs but keep it for a while to get the best out of it. Maybe an 86/87 in there somewhere.

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