Roc Epine Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend

Blind Dinner, Open Theme; 12 Nov 2018 at Prairie Whale, Great Barrington, MA

Surprised how fresh this was upon opening. With air the fruit began to take a back seat to baked earth, herbs, smoke, and leathery accents. Palate is upfront with black fruit that leads into spice and herbal notes. Time in bottle has helped calm the tannins making them open and elegant.

This is showing really well now. Lovely bouquet coupled with density and silky tannins. Lovely texture that was too easy to drink. Plums, leather, garrigue, spice, mushrooms, compote, sweet herbs.

2012s...know about them

Pretty good, pretty big. Too expensive though for the taste.

Just the right wine to kick back with after working the property at the cabin. This 2017, beautiful color packed with rounded tannins, nice old world body. It even paired with an aged Gouda - whoa!

This wine is in balance! Everything plays together so well. It’s a nice 10 year old wine, also the aged notes integrated so well with the vibrant red fruit coming from the Grenache. A little bit of Mouvedre and Syrah give it nice complexity.

Very smooth. Tobacco and/or leather. I enjoyed it.

One of my favorite wines. Purchased this at Costco in 2014...good luck to me trying to find another. Nice, smooth, light tannins. Has some pepper to it but strong dark berries are at the forefront. Enjoyed this with grilled ribeye.

Very nice and easy drinking wine. A lot of blackberries, plums and a slight bit of earth/meat type of notes. Very smooth with a long finish.