Châteauneuf du Pape, 2007

Name: Châteauneuf du Pape
Brand: Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
Price: 736.25 GBP

Available Vintages

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justerini & brooks tasting note

A blend of 65% Grenache 15% Syrah 15% Mourvèdre with some Clairette and Cinsault from vines planted on the fine La Crau vineyard averaging 65 years old. Maturation will take its usual path for this wine, 10 months in concrete and 10 months wooden foudres. Bottling is at the moment planned for July 2009. Aromatics of sloe and damson, followed by a ripe, generous palate that is at the same time, rich, fresh, powerful and supple. Tremendous finesse and balance here, long haunting flavours of juniper, damson, crushed loganberries and griotte cherries, finishing with the faintest suggestion of stem ginger spice.

critic reviews

93/100Josh Raynolds,Vinous

Glass-staining ruby. Highly pungent bouquet offers black fruit compote, olive and floral qualities, along with a slightly high-toned quality that recedes with air. The palate-coating, deeply concentrated cassis and blackberry flavors display a slow-mounting spiciness. Pretty powerful for a wine from this estate, showing more heft and dark fruit character than usual. The finish is broad, velvety and impressively persistent. Long-time fans of this property's usually elegant style might not be over the moon for this wine's virility. (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley CA

date of review 01/2010