2014 Chateauneuf du Pape
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The base 2014 Châteauneuf du Pape is the normal blend of 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah and 5% each of Mourvèdre and Cinsault, aged mostly in tank. It’s a charming, forward, medium-bodied effort that has beautiful sweetness in its black raspberry and framboise fruit, Asian spice and garrigue aromas and flavors. It’s already drinking great, and there’s no need to hold off, but these charming, balanced wines have a way of evolving gracefully, and I suspect this will still offer pleasure at age ten.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Jancis Robinson MW
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Brilliant ruby-red. A deeply perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red fruits, potpourri and licorice, carrying a smoky mineral overtone. Sappy and broad on the palate, offering juicy black raspberry and bitter cherry flavors that put on weight with air. Shows very good breadth on the persistent finish, which features intense red fruit liqueur and floral pastille elements and harmonious, rounded tannins.
Tasted blind. Blackish purple. Oily coconut oak on the nose. Thick and sweet. Palate-drying tannins on the finish. NOT the way to go in my view! Too oaky. Old-fashioned? (JR)
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Grenache/ Garnacha , Syrah / Shiraz, Mourvedre/Monastrell/Mataro, Cinsault
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Dry