Grand Veneur, Chateauneuf Du Pape Origines other_regions

Grand Veneur, Chateauneuf Du Pape Origines other_regionsAnother contender in the high quality, fair price sweepstakes. From an unusual blend of 50% Grenache, 30% Syrah and 20% Mourvedre , this modern styled wine pops with ripe, black cherries, black raspberries, smoke, vanilla and herbs. It's round, fat, lush, fresh and delicious.

long and sappy finish

Youthful and loaded with minerality and tannin

intense and beautifully delineated mineral-driven flavors are less rich but more powerful and more complex on the strikingly long finish

10% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot

Tasted two times with some variation

(100% grenache from La Crau) Opaque ruby

the 2018 Barolo Arione still has another year in botte and time in bottle before its commercial release

Coming from a vineyard planted in 1984

The 2015 Dauzac has a classy

49 holding of 40+ year old vines)

earth and a suggestion of the sauvage

35 ha parcel)