CHÂTEAUNEUF DU PAPE
2015 Les Sables de la Crau Domaine Jean Royer
| Grapes | Syrah, Grenache |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Rhône |
| District | Southern Rhône |
| Village | Châteauneuf du Pape |
| ABV | 15.5% |
Vivid ruby-red. Intense, sharply focused red fruit liqueur, spicecake and floral scents are complicated by suggestions of smoky minerals and Asian spices. Sappy, penetrating and appealingly sweet, offering silky raspberry and lavender pastille flavors that put on weight and spread out steadily with air. Closes smooth, sweet and impressively long, displaying suave, fine-grained tannins and resonating florality. Rating: 92-94 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Mar 2017)
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Floral and finesse-driven, the 2015 Châteauneuf du Pape Les Sables de La Crau is 100% Grenache from the sandy parts of the la Crau lieu-dit. It too is full-bodied, silky and polished, with terrific notes of strawberries, licorice, cherry jam and mint. Drink it over the coming decade. Rating: 91-93 Jeb Dunnuck - www.robertparker.com (Oct 2016)
La Crau. 100% Grenache. Partial whole-bunch fermentation in stainless steel. Aged for 12 months in demi-muids. pH 3.5, TA 3.5 g/l. Tasted blind. Transparent cherry red. Hint of coconut on the nose. Then lots of cherryade. Nothing too forced here and quite a streak of acidity. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: 16.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Oct 2016)
Domaine Jean Royer
Jean-Marie Royer inherited his vines in 1985 and set about improving the grape varietal mix and the vinification from then. Since more than half of the domaine is in unclassified ('Vin de Table') or 'Côtes du Rhône, he has developed a marque 'Le Petit Roy' sold as Vin de Table' for everything that does not make it into the Châteauneuf cuvées. The Petit Roy has always been a big hit in the shops ever since first joining our list.
His Châteauneufs are just gorgeous and offer refreshingly fantastic value for money. He has undoubtedly been much helped his close friend, the late star oenologist Philippe Cambié, who he went to school with and also played rugby with for many years. Cambié was more famous for a full-on rather extracted style, but Jean-Marie imposed his own, fresher, brighter style on all his wines which are crunchy and well-defined, helping cement these elegant expressions of Grenache as some of the finest from Châteauneuf.
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2017 CHÂTEAUNEUF DU PAPE Les Sables de la Crau Domaine Jean Royer
Southern Rhône Rhône France 15.5% Red
Syrah, Grenache.
More sweet red fruits, blueberries, violets, and awesome floral notes all emerge from the 2017 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Sables de La Crau, which is, as always, 100% Grenache from the sandy portions of the La Crau li...(read more)
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2019 CHÂTEAUNEUF DU PAPE La Crau Ouest Domaine Santa Duc
Southern Rhône Rhône France 13.5% Red
Grenache.
Tasted from tank at cellars July 2021 A tiny 0.5ha plot to the east of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, north facing, sandy soils. 100% Grenache with an average age of 90 years. 18 months in terracotta Amphora. ‘Wow’ is the fi...(read more)
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