Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape 2005

Red/purple.

Interesting aromatics - clay, lightly baked blue and black berries and just a hint of garrigue.
This smells like it has a good bit of Mourvedre.

Great textural sweetness as well as sweet (not to mention pure) fruit character, but very nicely kept in bounds by suave acid/fine tannin synergy. Keeps its plush fruit well into the finish, where the tannin coats the front teeth. Beautifully made, from obviously killer raw material.

Day 4 - Nose basically the same - just deeper bass notes. Ditto in the mouth, but the structure has amplified. Serious front-teeth chew now. It wil be interesting to watch this over many years.


$70