chateauneuf du pape reserve august favier

Domaine Saint Prefert

Châteauneuf du Pape, Reserve August Favier, 2017

Name: Châteauneuf du Pape, Reserve August Favier
Brand: Domaine Saint Prefert
Price: 259.22 GBP

94/100

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2017
6x75cl
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£259.22

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Spicy, brooding and dark-fruited with sweeter touches of fig, Victoria plum and bramble offset by savoury black olive notes. Tight-wound and very intense. It feels less rich than the 2016 and more elegant, but there is still no shortage of punch here. A whole-bunch-fermented blend that usually comprises 75% Grenache and 25% Cinsault. This year there is around 10% Cinsault only, though, and more Grenache. The vines are fifty year old vines from which Isabel Ferrando makes less than 2,000 cases a year. The vines are in the estate’s original and historic Quartier des Serres sector. Half of the wine is aged in concrete tank and half in large used oak hogsheads, for 18 months.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

94/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Saturated ruby. Ripe red and blue fruit, floral and spice qualities on the intensely perfumed nose. Shows a compelling blend of depth and energy, offering intense cherry, black raspberry and boysenberry flavors and suggestions of exotic spices and candied lavender. Fine-grained tannins add subtle grip to an impressively persistent finish that strongly echoes the floral and spice notes.

drinking window 2023 - 2033

date of review 10/2021

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Rhone

Appellation:

Châteauneuf du Pape

Producer:

Domaine Saint Prefert

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Grenache/Syrah

abv:

14.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.