Matt

9.4

Always a fav. First taste of 2015 vintage, nice balance for the year, extraction is deft and carries some finesse to it. As usual, complex, layered, full of goutte de terroir. Layers of cherry from crushed to soaked, slight hint of prune, raspberry confiture, game, fur, roast beef, juniper, forest and cedar, pure garrigue, licorice root, ceylon cinnamon, chaparral, powdered sugar, 5 spice, singed tobacco, graphite, bitter cocoa. Still taut, the tannins need time to relax, but I think they will always have persistence in the wine. Ok with me. — 6 years ago

Al Shikoh

9.1

medium ruby; cherry, strawberry, lavender, licorice, garrigue; muscular but with surprising freshness, 14.5 % ABV; blend of 70% Grenache, 14% Syrah, 15% Mourvedre, and 1% Cinsault; great vintage, beautiful site near Chapel of Saint Cosme, #5 of Wine Spectator’s 2017 top 100 wines; $38 — 7 years ago

Dave Montagne

9.2

Love this bottle! Will definitely buy more. — 7 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Really good. GSM. Rich, ripe with plenty of cherry, garrigue, Provençal herbs, iron, lavender, layered and long. — 7 years ago

John J

9.0

Good cdp, this 2014 is a lighter cuvee, others commented it is burgundian in style and I agree.
Nice raspberry palate, minerality with harmonized garrigue, good tannins. Great complement to food, it's a better wine with food. The garrigue blew off day 2-3 which I miss. A PNP is OK with this wine. — 8 years ago

Michael Tao

9.0

Very nice Rhone-style blend -- Syrah / Carignan / Grenache. Really enjoying with Christmas celebration! — 9 years ago

Antonio Capurso

9.5

Nose: all the aromatic flavours of excellent Grenache first - then loads of spiciness, garrigue, elegant oak, roasted meat, black fruit (black currant, cherries)
Palate: very very fine and silky tannins, medium to high body, red/black fruit, nice oak, great complexity

(Avignon - Le Vin Devant Soi - enomatic) — 10 years ago

Wineshout 💀

9.1

Garrigue herbs, floral notes and warm fruits with a touch of licorice. Great structure and medium tannins will allow for good aging. The 2011 vintage is more herbaceous and less fruit-forward than is past years, and still too young - took an age of decanting to get it to shine. Dont open yet - hold. Lots of potential. — 11 years ago

JohnQ Boxler

Sales Berkeley Wine Company

8.9

2012 Vintage. Dark fruits, garrigue, Faugeres funk, Bootsy Collins bass solo soul, earthy goodness. Fuh-schtinkin'. Plenty of tannins; hide in a dark, cool place for a couple years. Very good. Rebuy. — 12 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.6

Garrigue incarnate! — 12 years ago

with Jason and Angela

K Brooks

8.9

Quite pleasant with sautéed chicken and pasta ($15) — 6 years ago

Jeff Hasmann

9.4

The 2017 Chateauneufs are insanely good - heavily concentrated and layered with tannins of silk. Make no mistake - these are big, powerful wines with high aging potential. The entry level Ferrand is 90% Grenache from very old vines planted between 1904 and 1920 and brought up in tank. Deep layers of black raspberry, violets, plums, garrigue, and spice. The palate explodes with deliciousness offering fine tannins and long finish. I love this stuff! Will improve even more with time. 2017 vintage on Dec 5, 2019 — 6 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

8.9

A bit more alcoholic than we expected, a bit hollow in the cheeks...still, some good fruit and garrigue, would like more structure, perhaps give it a few years. Like a more angular CdP. — 7 years ago

with Alsu

paul custer

9.2

paired well with dinner at the plimoth in denver. menu: cauliflower turnip gratinee, oxford garden’s arugula salad, and seared sea scallops. medium bodied, well balanced. — 8 years ago

Jay Kline

8.9

Brambles, garrigue. Lovely already. 2015 is a vintage to go deep on CdP. — 8 years ago

Sergio Licea

9.3

Cherry liqueur, blackberry compote, garrigue, dried tarragon, violets, green peppercorns, wet stones, clay. Vibrant rounded acidity, medium-full bodied, juicy-satin texture, mild rough velvet tannins, long herbal, fruity finish. Balanced fruit, earthy notes, wonderfully herbal on the palate. This one will be special with you extended cellaring time. Decanting recommended. — 8 years ago

Devin Bray

8.9

Deep baked dark fruit on the nose. Bloody and jammy in the mouth with lots of garrigue and afternotes of charred meat. A bit of green olive. — 10 years ago

Kory Riley

9.4

Delicious wine. Bing cherry, ripe blackberry. Would have again. — 11 years ago

with Brandon

Elizabeth Kinney

9.2

Europe 2014 — 11 years ago

Barb Perch

9.7

With grass fed bone in rib eye — 12 years ago

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9.5

Vivid ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and pit fruits, potpourri and garrigue, and an exotic spice note emerges in the glass. Stains the palate with sweet raspberry, cherry and lavender pastille flavors that steadily put on weight with air. Conveys a suave blend of power and finesse and finishes extremely long and floral, with fine-grained tannins lending discreet grip. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, February 2020)
— 6 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.2

Garnet color, dark spicy baked plum fruit, anise, violets, game, garrigue. Gorgeous acidity. Supposedly a crummy vintage but this is a real success — 7 years ago

Jay Kline

9.2

One of my last remaining 2010 CdP’s...from back when I was exploring the region. I’ve since only focused on a few specific producers but Marcoux is one that still has some of my attention...mostly because it’s hard to deny that it’s really good wine. This bottle seemed a touch reductive at first but that blew off with some time and what emerged was a bounty of brambles, sandalwood, garrigue, Twin Bing, some sediment...actually a lot of sediment. The tannins weren’t very obvious at first but after a couple of hours, the tannin monster showed up in full force. For whatever reason, this has happened to me on occasion with top wines from CdP and Gigondas. Not sure what causes that. Anyway, based off this experience, I would have to say that these still have quite a bit of life in them. In the same breath, however, I would exercise caution as I’ve witnessed too many Grenache based wines not age as gracefully. — 7 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Lovely garrigue. Not too big! — 8 years ago

Fabian Kühlhorn

8.9

Ganska sval upplevelse med en elegant rödbärighet. Betydligt mer drickbart nu än -13. Björnbär och garrigue. — 8 years ago

François Hugueniot

9.2

Très belle Syrah, épicée, garrigue, olive noire, au nez.
En bouche beaucoup d'élégance, une finale longue.
Très beau vin que l'on prend beaucoup de plaisir à déguster dès aujourd'hui mais qui doit être intéressant à laisser vieillir, seul bémol le prix! — 10 years ago

Pete Stosich

9.0

Agree with the garrigue — 10 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.4

An earth driven nose with overtones of garrigue. This wine was terroir driven vs fruit driven. Compared to the other vintages I found this wine benefited the least from air. — 11 years ago

Arnaud Fabre

9.0

Grande franchise, joli fruit, garrigue, fluide. — 12 years ago

with Marco

Morgan Reece

9.7

Ben likes it. Zebra — 13 years ago