Tasting Notes
Vinous 91
(80% grenache, 10% syrah, 5% mourvedre and 5% cinsault ): Brilliant ruby color. Ripe red fruits on the nose, with peppery spices and a floral element adding complexity. Deep and sweet but energetic, showing powerful thrust to its raspberry and bitter cherry flavors. Silky tannins frame the long, pliant finish, which leaves suave spicecake and lavender pastille notes behind. I find this wine very approachable now.
Robert Parker 92
With no Mon Aieul or Reserve des Deux Freres in the vintage, all of the juice went into their 2011 Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Comprised of 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 5% Cinsault and 5% Mourvedre and aged half in concrete and half in foudre (Mourvedre and Syrah in demi-muid), it’s a gorgeous wine in the vintage and has layers of sweet black raspberry fruit, licorice, spice-cake and garrigue all emerging from the glass. Medium to full-bodied, rich and textured, with no shortage of fruit, this beauty will drink nicely through 2021. Drink now-2021.
Anticipated maturity: 2013-2021