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Clos du Caillou Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve(2005)
- Winery:
- Le Clos du Caillou
- Varietal:
- Rhone Blend
- Region:
- France > Rhône > Châteauneuf-du-pape
- Type:
- User Tags:
- berry, bramble fruits, mineral, blackberry, flower, black currant, perfect, cuvée, finest, châteauneuf-du-pape
Chateauneuf du Pape is an open-knit, precocious, heady wine with delicious sweet black cherry and currant fruit intermixed with plenty of spice and licorice. It is medium to full-bodied with silky tannin, good freshness, and a layered mouthfeel.
- Josh Raynolds
- International Wine Cellar
- Issue 130, January/February 2007
- 96-99
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August 2007
- Inky violet. Explosive aromas of blackberry, raspberry, kirsch, lavender pastille and sexy Asian spices show a room-filling pungency. Then remarkably concentrated on the palate, offering an awe-inducing display of red and dark berry flavors, velvety texture and spicy minerality. This is almost overwhelming in its fruit flavors and shows breathtaking persistence through the ripely tannic finish. Stupefying and utterly hypnotic.
