Chaupin Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend

Ripe and sweet. Candied plummy fruit. Very pure and intense. Polished

Reddish in color with a wide reddish rim.

Fresh nose of red fruits with earth, light wood and tobacco.

Medium bodied with medium plus acidity.

Dry on the palate with raspberries, cherries, spices, light oak, chocolate notes and tobacco leaf.

Nice finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.

This young Grenache from Châteauneuf-du-Pape is already drinking beautifully. Engaging, elegant and fruity. Spicy and interesting.

Will continue to age nicely in the next 15 years. Would be nice to revisit it in 10 years.

Easy drinking and good by itself as a sipping wine, and will pair nicely with food too.

100% Grenache grapes were grown on sandy soils, and aged for 12 months in large French oak barrels.

15.5% alcohol by volume.

92 points.

$60.

Burnt tasting maybe over the hill

Young CDF at the starting gate so long decant or wait in bottle: quite refined & elegant with no rough edges. Concentrated cassis & black cherries with garrique wildness a suggestion, not a note. Paired with Cauliflower gratin & a summer salad, & gifted by our dinner guests….

Man do I hate CDP. So hot. So unfocused.

Capitol Region Wine Collectors Club (WCC), Chateauneuf du Pape; 6 October 2023 at Café Capriccio, Albany, NY

Capitol Region Wine Collectors Club (WCC), Chateauneuf du Pape; 5 October 2023 at Café Capriccio, Albany, NY

Capitol Region Wine Collectors Club (WCC), Chateauneuf du Pape; 5 October 2023 at Café Capriccio, Albany, NY

Blind dinner, open theme, mid-week at The Elm in Great Barrington MA.

Flavor of strawberry jam and spice - very smooth and approachable. Enjoyed with a beautifully bribenedppork chop…