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Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée da Capo 2003

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Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée da Capo (2003)

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Winery:: Domaine du Pégaü
Varietal:: Rhône Blend
Region:: France > Rhone Valley > Southern Rhône > Châteauneuf-du-pape
Type:: Red Wine
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Drink Dates:: Drink Now - 2025
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User Tags: color descriptors, meat, spices, concentrated, berry, red, digestif, bramble fruits, dessert wines, doc (portugal)

What to Expect

The Grand Vin of the Southern Rhone Valley, Châteauneuf is perhaps the quintessential blended wine. With 13 varieties of grapes allowed, 15 if you included both the light and dark skinned varieties of Grenache and Picpoul, each winemaker has the ability to craft a unique and distinct interpretation of the soils and climates of the region. While few producers use all or even most of the 13 varieties, most rely on Grenache to form the heart and soul of their wines. These are rather big and distinctly warm climate wines that are rich with alcohol. The tannins of Grenache are modest, so many of these wines require little aging to be enjoyed; yet many can improve over the course of a decade. Typically one finds rich strawberry and red cherry tones in Châteauneuf with complicating notes of herbs and lavender, frequently referred to as "garrigue". There are frequently notes of game, leather and tar, typical of Syrah and Mourvedre - two other important components of many wines.

Winemakers Notes

It is a return to the symphony of the 13 grape varieties of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, each of which was considered to bring in their own register, a different gustatory note to the wine. Selected from the oldest fields where the 13 varieties were always planted side by side, the wine is still in the large wooden casks where it has seemingly stopped its evolution and is giving nothing away. This is often the case with these massive wines. As yet we feel it has only revealed half of its personality, certainly it is powerful, silky and fat with a large palette of fleshy, black fruits and notes of liquorice, which read more...

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Josh Raynolds

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Wine Cellar

Rating: 95-97 - As reviewed by International Wine Cellar in Issue 124, January/February 2006 Deep, dark red. Multidimensional bouquet of kirsch, cassis, red plum, pipe tobacco, grilled meat, licorice pastille and roasted coffee; this has nearly all of the Chateauneuf food groups. Utterly mouthfilling in its richness, with tremendous concentration of red and dark berries, garrigue, bittersweet chocolate and aged beef. Finishes with a velvety lushness, round tannins and palate-staining persistence. A simply remarkable wine: it finished at 16.2% but the alcohol only shows in the wine's unctuous, almost oily palate feel.