2010 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Collection Charles Giraud

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Châteauneuf Du Pape

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

60% Grenache, 40% Mourvèdre

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2036

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Looked at in terms of wine quality, "2011 turned out to be a very nice vintage, but that was only after an incredible amount of work and sacrifice," Isabel Ferrando said wryly.There were a lot of grapes, she said "but many of them weren't physiologically mature so they had to go."Ferrando thinks that 2011 is a good deal better than the other "little years," meaning '08, '06 and '04, and that the wines will be "delicious to drink now and over the next ten years."The polar opposite is the case with the 2010s, in her opinion."The wines have already moved into their closed stage, in many cases, and will be there for a while.Maybe not so much as has happened with 2005, but still shut down."

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Isabel Ferrando admitted that she is restless when it comes to finding the best way to make wines that express this property. The most significant wine-making move that she has made recently (with the 2009 vintage) was to ferment her wines entirely with whole clusters, she told me. "I began to realize that if I destemmed my fruit then the fruit was over-emphasized, in a confiture way, which is always a danger here, where the fruit gets so ripe that terroir is obscured. We need to work more structure into the wines, not more fruit, otherwise the wines can be all fruit and simple, without site expression." On top of that, she added, using stems has brought the alcohol levels down and has extended the fermentations. "Now they don't stop until the sugar is gone and there's no need to add yeast either."