Wines |
Red wines from Rhone
| Producer: Andre Brunel
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| Wine: Chateauneuf du Pape Les Cailloux - Cuvee Centenaire 1995
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Appellation: Chateauneuf du Pape
Sub-region: Southern Rhone |
| Region: Rhone
Country: France |
| Grape: Rhone Blend |
| Tasting notes: "1995 was a powerful vintage for Brunel. The Cuvee Centenaire remains a young, promising wine offering notes of licorice, cedar, vanilla, and sweet black currant/cherry fruit presented in a full-bodied, virile style. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2018." Robert Parker 94 points (Jan 2003) |
 Price: £115.00 |
Size: 75cl |
Colour/style: Red |
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| Producer: Beaucastel, Chateau de
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| Wine: Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2000
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Appellation: Chateauneuf du Pape
Sub-region: Southern Rhone |
| Region: Rhone
Country: France |
| Grape: Rhone Blend |
| Tasting notes: "The opaque ruby/purple-colored 2000 offers a profoundly sweet perfume of melted licorice, blackberries, and black cherries backed up by loads of glycerin, full body, and moderately high but sweet, well-integrated tannin. There is a seamlessness to the 2000 that makes it not only accessible early, but absolutely delicious already, and thus atypical for Beaucastel. The 1985 behaved in this manner when young, but the 2000 possesses much more stuffing and power. A brilliant Beaucastel! Anticipated maturity: 2007-2025. It is a classic blend of 30% Grenache, 30% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the balance other permitted varietals." 95pts Robert Parker |
| Price: £45.00 |
Size: 75cl |
Colour/style: Red |
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| Producer: Beaucastel, Chateau de
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| Wine: Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2001
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Appellation: Chateauneuf du Pape
Sub-region: Southern Rhone |
| Region: Rhone
Country: France |
| Grape: Rhone Blend |
| Tasting notes: "Beaucastel has been on a terrific qualitative roll over the last four vintages, and the 2001 Chateauneuf du Pape (which Francois Perrin feels is similar to the 1990, although I don’t see that as of yet) is a 15,000-case blend of 30% Grenache, 30% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the balance split among the other permitted varietals of the appellation. This inky/ruby/purple-colored cuvee offers a classic Beaucastel bouquet of new saddle leather, cigar smoke, roasted herbs, black truffles, underbrush, and blackberry as well as cherry fruit. It is a superb, earthy expression of this Mourvedre-dominated cuvee. Full-bodied and powerful, it will undoubtedly close down over the next several years, not to re-emerge for 7-8 years. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2025." 96pts Robert Parker |
| Price: £47.95 |
Size: 75cl |
Colour/style: Red |
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| Producer: Beaucastel, Chateau de
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| Wine: Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2003
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Appellation: Chateauneuf du Pape
Sub-region: Southern Rhone |
| Region: Rhone
Country: France |
| Grape: Rhone Blend |
| Tasting notes: "The 2003 Beaucastel Chateauneuf du Pape turned out as well as I could have hoped and is certainly an outstanding wine, deep ruby/purple with a tight but promising nose of black fruits, loamy, earthy notes intermixed with pepper, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs. The wine is somewhat closed in the mouth (but it had been bottled 30 days prior to my visit), has full bodied, moderately high, slightly rustic tannins, but big-impact flavors with plenty of texture, density, and purity. Give this wine 3-5 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 20 years." 92+ pts Robert Parker |
| Price: £41.95 |
Size: 75cl |
Colour/style: Red |
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| Producer: Paul Jaboulet Aine
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| Wine: Cotes Du Ventoux Les Traverses 2006
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| Region: Rhone
Country: France |
| Grape: Shiraz / Syrah, Grenache |
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| Price: £8.50 |
Size: 75cl |
Colour/style: Red |
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