CHÂTEAUNEUF DU PAPE
2020 Les Sables de la Crau Domaine Jean Royer
| Grapes | Syrah, Grenache |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Rhône |
| District | Southern Rhône |
| Village | Châteauneuf du Pape |
| ABV | 16.5% |
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 purity and elegance. Ripe raspberries, kirsch liqueur, ground herbs, pepper, dried flowers, and loamy earth all define the nose, and it's full-bodied, with a layered, opulent mouthfeel, silky tannins, and a great finish. It's beautifully done and just screams of Grenache. It will evolve gracefully for 15 years. Drinking range: 2022 - 2037 Rating: 94 Jeb Dunnuck, www.jebdunnuck.com (Nov 2022)
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*Case price discount: Mix any 12 bottles of wine (or 9 litre equivalent) or 6 bottles of Champagne, Spirits, Sweet Wine or Fortified (4.5 litres) to get the discounted 'case price' for each bottle.
The 2020 Châteauneuf du Pape Les Sables De La Crau, which includes 20% Mourvèdre, is even deeper hued and boasts a rich, flamboyant, incredibly sexy personality as well as loads of black raspberry and blackberry fruits, notes of ground pepper, flowery incense, and licorice, no hard edges, ripe tannins, and a great finish. It's one of the sexiest, most sweetly fruited wines in the vintage. Rating: 93-95 Jeb Dunnuck, www.jebdunnuck.com (Nov 2021)
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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