2013 Chateauneuf du Pape
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A big success in the vintage, the 2013 Châteauneuf du Pape is 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 7% Mourvèdre and 3% Cinsault, all of which spent six months in stainless steel before being moved to concrete tank, where it rested for 12 months before bottling. Licorice, blackberries, mulled spices, and peppered meat-like aromas and flavors all emerge from this medium to full-bodied, textured and beautifully balanced 2013. It has surprising depth and richness in the vintage, as well as beautiful tannin quality. I like it now, but it will drink nicely through 2023.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Josh Raynolds
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Vivid purple. Perfumed, expansive bouquet of sexy red and dark berry liqueur and incense, along with hints of lavender and cola. Silky, sweet and broad, offering spice-tinged black raspberry and boysenberry flavors and a touch of bitter chocolate. The clinging finish is framed by smooth, slow-building tannins.
80% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah/Cinsault/Counoise. 100% destemmed. A long 25-day maceration with pigeage in stainless-steel tanks at a maximum temperature of 28° C. Matured for 18 months in vat prior to blending and bottling. Very dark purple. Unusual-looking. Exceptionally ripe on the nose. I cannot find much of Châteauneuf in this black-cherry compote but it’s certainly attention-grabbing and one can only wonder at how they managed to coax these flavours out of the late-ripening 2013s. Very slightly sickly but certainly impressive. Falls away rather than refreshes. (JR)
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Grenache/ Garnacha , Syrah / Shiraz, Mourvedre/Monastrell/Mataro, Cinsault
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