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Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com
"Coming all from very old vine Grenache and brought up in tank, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Cuvée Imperiale offers a smoking bouquet of vivid black raspberry and cassis intermixed with lots of flowery incense, licorice, and spring flowers. Reminding me of a Grand Cru Red Burgundy on the palate, it’s medium to full-bodied, has a vibrant, tight, focused texture, polished tannins, and beautifully integrated acidity. It’s one classy Châteauneuf du Pape that will evolve for two decades."
97 Peter Moser - Falstaff
Strong ruby, purple reflections, broad ochre brightening on the rim. Soft notes of dried herbs, sweet red cherries, fine wild berry nuances, floral touch of violets. Juicy, fresh and elegant, ripe cherries and blackberries, silky, supporting tannins, mineral and long lasting on the palate, good ageing potential, already very seductive.
96 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com
Deep, spicy and fragrant, this is a very concentrated and elegant Chateauneuf-du-Pape with remarkably fine tannins and floral delicacy alongside its earthy primacy. Mainly produced from grenache vines planted in 1901 and 1902. From Demeter-certified biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
96 Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Deep, rich, dark and packed with notes of roses, kirsch, cherries, spice and thyme, this is stunning from start to finish. While the wine is intense, concentrated and lusty with its 15% ABV, there is no sense of heat as all that gorgeous, fresh, sweet, ripe, pure fruit grabs your nose and palate from the start and stays with you all the way through to its seamless finish. The wine is produced from mostly old vine Grenache vines close to 120 years of age and with the 2019, the old-vine intensity shines through here, loud and clear. Drink from 2024 - 2040
