2003 Bosquet des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Chante Le Merle Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  8/15/2019 - PSPatrick wrote: 89 Points

  Popped and poured, consumed over a period of three days. The wine was medium garnet in colour and threw a notable amount of sediment. It offered dried red fruit, raisins, grilled herbs, spice notes, black pepper, pastille, liquorice, a vegetal aspect and mineral notes, with medium-level acidity.
  
  On day one, the coarse and drying tannin stood in an awkward contrast to the wine’s sweet fruit and the wine had that raisiny profile I dislike in many high octane CdP, but on day two the wine became quite lovely: balanced, integrated and mineral, with some mature Grenache sweetness and good length. Quite drinkable and a positive surprise after reading the bad reviews.
  
  On day three the wine became slightly bitter, with more pronounced acidity and less length; I clearly liked the wine best on day two. Underappreciated if I look at the reviews. 89 points for day two.

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  9/25/2017 - DFBW Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Last bottle of this thankfully. In fact, last bottle of any 2003 CNDP and it went down the drain like the rest of them. Not a good year.

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  6/2/2017 - DFBW Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Decanted for a three hours but was instantly worried by the cloudy look of it. Not corked, just not very good. Stewed fruit in a glass. Can't really work out why so many CndP's can't seem to take any age. 2003 in particular seems to be a bit of a dodgy year but I still feel that they should last a bit longer than this.

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  3/7/2016 - Jeff W wrote:

  Just like the last bottle, and it goes down the sink, just like the last bottle. Fortunately this really is my last bottle.

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  8/16/2014 - mendovino wrote: 94 Points

  Erg fijn en subtiel, nodige zuurtjes waren nog aanwezig net zoals een fantastische afdronk, kleur licht geëvolueerd.
  Nu te drinken! op zijn top!

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