Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale other_regions

Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale other_regions(100% grenache from La Crau) Opaque ruby. Highly perfumed bouquet of red and dark berry preserves, flowers, fruit pit and sassafras. Sweet, palate staining black raspberry and mulberry flavors are framed by velvety tannins and become spicier and more energetic on the back end. Big and gripping but surprisingly graceful wine with very good finishing lift and precision. This saw no new oak. Josh Raynolds

The mouth feel is also noticeably finer with lovely detail and minerality suffusing the medium weight flavors that offer fine persistence on the lacy finale

Just very slightly austere

and all varieties are co-fermented for this wine

(from Sous la Velle

Here too the admirably pure aromas are distinctly cool with its ripe nose of white peach and essence of pear that is trimmed in notes of subtle wood

The youngest

powerful and tautly muscular with excellent detail and subtle minerality on the spicy

Ample and beautifully resonant on the palate

Generous if not actually dominant wood influence is present on the red and dark currant

and it finishes very long and nuanced

tangerine oil and a range of saline-infused notes all run through the 2018

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