2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve Auguste Favier
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The 2015 Châteauneuf du Pape Reserve Auguste Favier is another blockbuster that offers full-bodied richness, a layered, unctuous and expansive, sexy texture, sweet tannin and killer notes of roasted meats, ground pepper, melted licorice, and assorted red and black fruits. It’s one seamless beauty that will be slightly more approachable in its youth than the Collection Charles Giraud, but still keep for over two decades. Oct 2016, www.robertparker.com
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Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve Auguste Favier is a blend of 85% Grenache with 15% Cinsault. It pushes the ripeness up a notch from the traditional cuvee toward blackberry, plum and chocolate but remains lively. It, too, is full-bodied and supple, with a creamy texture and a long finish. Oct 2017, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Domaine Saint-Préfert was one of Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s leading names, known for crafting some of the region’s most elegant wines. The wines are now bottled under the Famille Isabel Ferrando name.