Châteauneuf-du-Pape

The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape, which is based largely on Grenache, is a seamless, elegant, finesse-driven example of the variety that always brings plenty of ripeness. Black cherries, pepper, loamy soil, and dried f...(read more)

Still in cask last summer, the 2021 Chateauneuf du Pape Habemus Papam is a 60-40 blend of Grenache and Syrah. It's a complex, savory vintage for this wine, with notes of smoke, leather, cracked pepper, allspice and menth...(read more)

The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Prestige is an 80/20 split of Grenache and Mourvedre. It has a rocking bouquet of ripe black raspberry and cherry liqueur fruit as well as ground pepper, sappy flowers, sandalwood, and...(read more)

Macerated blackberry, cherry, dark chocolate, plums, spice. In the mouth it is generous, brightly acid, lovely ripe fruit delivery, blackberry, plum and dark chocolate. Gorgeous tannic ripeness, aromatic back notes, slee...(read more)

Saturated ruby-red. Highly perfumed red and blue fruits, potpourri, garrigue and exotic spices on the expansive nose. Stains the palate with sweet boysenberry, raspberry preserve and floral pastille flavors sharpened by...(read more)

Dark and meaty nose, but with terrific freshness. With aeration, wild blackberry and elderberry notes unfold. Very concentrated and structured with a dense and dry core that some may find a bit daunting, but really impre...(read more)

Lastly, the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Les Sables De La Crau is all Grenache from pure sand soils that was brought up in demi-muids. It's one of the bigger wines in the lineup, yet still shows an incredible sense of...(read more)

60% Grenache 40% Mourvèdre. Much darker in the colour, the Mourvèdre really jumps out, roasted meats, garrigue, rosemary and sweet violets, textured and powerful, ripe tannins too, the new oak is a little d...(read more)

2019 Chateauneuf-du-Pape les Trois Sources A blend of four different terraces on the lower slopes of this north facing estate. 65% Grenache 15% Syrah the balance from Mourvedre, Cinsault, Counoise, Vacarese, Terret Noir,...(read more)

100% Grenache, 100 year old vines. Dark and slightly brooding, dense plum and blueberry with a huge whack of sweet Grenache, raspberry, violets, very long and pure, full bodied, lots of spice and garrigue, will develop b...(read more)

2019 Chateauneuf-du-Pape les Hauts Lieux From the highest sheltered terraces on the estate, a bit more pebble & quartz mixed in with the red clay & sand. Roughly half the production of Trois Sources from a 4.5ha...(read more)

Lastly, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Reserve is another magical wine, and I might have rated this cuvée a perfect score more than any other Southern Rhône. Unquestionably in the same realm as the 2017,...(read more)