Extraordinarily delicious Côtes du Rhône. Elegant yet powerful. #2010 #rhone #cotesdurhone #frenchwine — 10 years ago
A delicious wine that should show even more in the next few years. With notes of kirsch and black currant, this soft, but complex wine is delicious. It has slight herbaceous undertones that round out the fruit forwardness. Probably one of the better Chat. Du Papes from this vintage. — 11 years ago
Great summer red. Good balance and lower on the alchahol (12.5%). Great picnic wine. Pairs well with grilled foods (even grilled fish). — 10 years ago
Great again from Loire region. — 10 years ago
@ Narisawa (Tokyo) — 11 years ago
2012. Not fruity which I love. Lots of tannins. Bold. — 10 years ago
And on the 3rd day it showed the best — 10 years ago
Keith Levenberg
This is a silkier, more elegant vintage of the Chapelle, at least relative to the 2010, which was really in my zone, as well as the 2009, which I found over-the-top, but in both cases I think there was more stuffing there than here. This would've shown better if I'd opened it with white meat or even fish or something else where a lightweight presence and loose-knit structure is called for. It's an excellent wine in that idiom but lacks some of the solidity and grip it has offered in other years. It's not imbalanced at all, and the trademark stony mineral flavors are still here, it's just a slimmer version of its usual self. — 10 years ago