2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc Vieilles Vignes
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Brilliant yellow-gold. Powerful, mineral-accented aromas of fresh pear, peach pit and iodine take on a leesy nuance as the wine opens up. Smooth and seamless on the palate, offering concentrated orchard and pit fruit and sweet butter flavors that become more lively with air. Clings with superb tenacity on the mineral-tinged finish, which shows excellent clarity and resonating florality.
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Starting off and a smokin’ good white from this family run estate, the 2015 Châteauneuf du Pape Vieilles Vignes Blanc checks in as 50% Grenache Blanc, 35% Roussanne and the rest Clairette and Bourboulenc. It comes from mostly sandy and pebbly soils (La Crau, La Gardiole, Cabrieres and Mont Redon) and is brought up in a combination of new, once and twice-used barrels. Rich, full-bodied, gorgeously pure and layered, with ample notes of ripe peach, buttered citrus and toasted bread, it has a touch of oak still showing, but will come together nicely in bottle and keep for a decade or more.
Starting off and a smokin’ good white from this family run estate, the 2015 Châteauneuf du Pape Vieilles Vignes Blanc checks in as 50% Grenache Blanc, 35% Roussanne and the rest Clairette and Bourboulenc. It comes from mostly sandy and pebbly soils (La Crau, La Gardiole, Cabrieres and Mont Redon) and is brought up in a combination of new, once and twice-used barrels. Rich, full-bodied, gorgeously pure and layered, with ample notes of ripe peach, buttered citrus and toasted bread, it has a touch of oak still showing, but will come together nicely in bottle and keep for a decade or more. Oct 2016, www.robertparker.com
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Clairette, Grenache Blanc / Garnacha Blanca, Roussanne, Bourboulenc
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Dry