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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)
— 4 years ago

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. — 5 years ago

Doug Powers

9.4

En magnum. Complex redfruit and garrigue aromas and flavors, fruit is still somewhat youthful, balanced, just a bit of alcohol shows in the finish, should go another 10+ years easily. — 6 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.4

Fantastic aromas of garrigue and lavender. Lovely savory, herbal and balsam notes. Velvety mouthfeel and a long finish! — 6 years ago

Matt

9.0

Elegant and lofty CNDP. Great example of the finesse that these wines can have despite their brooding personalities. The Grenache shines through, loads of cooked red fruit, garrigue, and cool herbal hints. Love the sense of earth with its stoney/smokey character. Sexy and upfront fruit then moves over to a finish laden with provencal herbs, lavender, and herbal spice. Structurally a full and present wine with balanced tannin and relatively fresh acidity. Day 2: much more flesh and savory. Deeply fruited with dark licorice, coffee, herbs. Crazy how heavy this got with a day to wake up. — 7 years ago

John B

9.3

Garrigue, lavender, black olive, licorice, black fruit and legs for miles. — 7 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. — 8 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. — 9 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. — 10 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.6

Garrigue incarnate! — 10 years ago

with Jason and Angela

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. — 5 years ago

with Alsu

Jay Kline

9.3

I simply love this expression of Clos des Papes. It’s so fresh and pure with abundant red fruit and a healthy hillside of garrigue. So much tension. Just lovely. Why hold when you can drink these beauties right now. — 5 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. — 6 years ago

Fabian Kühlhorn

8.9

Ganska sval upplevelse med en elegant rödbärighet. Betydligt mer drickbart nu än -13. Björnbär och garrigue. — 6 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.0

Red and black fruits, spice, garrigue. Prominent alcohol detracts from the finish. — 7 years ago

Michael Tao

9.0

Very nice Rhone-style blend -- Syrah / Carignan / Grenache. Really enjoying with Christmas celebration! — 7 years ago

Keith Herrick

9.0

Dried strawberry, garrigue and brett... My score reflects my bias against this region — 8 years ago

Kory Riley

9.4

Delicious wine. Bing cherry, ripe blackberry. Would have again. — 9 years ago

with Brandon

Elizabeth Kinney

9.2

Europe 2014 — 9 years ago

Barb Perch

9.7

With grass fed bone in rib eye — 10 years ago

Dave Montagne

9.2

Love this bottle! Will definitely buy more. — 5 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Really good. GSM. Rich, ripe with plenty of cherry, garrigue, Provençal herbs, iron, lavender, layered and long. — 5 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Lovely garrigue. Not too big! — 6 years ago

Jay Kline

8.9

Brambles, garrigue. Lovely already. 2015 is a vintage to go deep on CdP. — 6 years ago

Matt

9.3

Captures the elegance of Grenache and the 2014s. Pure ripe and confiture fruit, almost liquor like, underpinning of minerals, garrigue, and herbs. Drank too quickly as it needed more aeration — 7 years ago

Kevin Cahoon

9.2

Rich, ripe and dense fruit on the nose. Raspberry, strawberry and plum aromas with hints of garrigue and white pepper. Big and lush on palate with jammy fruit tones and round soft tannins. A bit primary and was hoping for more complexity. Well balanced so interested to see how this ages. — 7 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) — 8 years ago

Pete Stosich

9.0

Agree with the garrigue — 8 years ago

Max Kogod

Owner Kogod Wine Merchant

9.8

Black tea, garrigue and pristine fruit. — 9 years ago

Arnaud Fabre

9.0

Grande franchise, joli fruit, garrigue, fluide. — 10 years ago

with Marco