"Brilliant magenta. An assertively perfumed bouquet of ripe red and blue fruits, Moroccan spices and incense carries a smoky overtone. Sweet, penetrating raspberry preserve, cherry, lavender pastille and spicecake flavors show impressive depth as well as vivacity. Displays superb clarity and floral thrust on the finish, which features smoothly interwoven tannins and lingering spiciness. This wine shows just how much complexity can be achieved, even in a hot vintage, in the absence of any oak, old or new." -Vinous
Robert Parker
RP92
"Marked by lifted aromas of red fruits and violets, now that it is in bottle the 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape is reassuringly excellent, although clearly not up to the level of this estate's best vintages. Cherries and raspberries are framed by firm but silky tannins on the medium to full-bodied palate, trailing slowly away into a dusty swirl of dark chocolate and cocoa-powder tannins on the finish." -Robert Parker
Details
Grape Variety
Grenache
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Other Regional Grapes
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Red Blend
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Syrah
