2010 Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Châteauneuf Du Pape

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Grenache, Syrah, Cinsaut, Mourvèdre

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2029

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One of the problems producers faced in 2011 "was lots of big grapes," Thierry Usseglio told me, "which means dilution.You had to eliminate as many as you could or you missed getting any concentration."There is only one Chateauneuf here in 2011, which means that all of the juice that would normally constitute the Mon Aieuil and Deux Freres bottlings wound up in that straight Chateauneuf, and it shows in that wine's depth and power.Thierry told me that he is especially fixated on vineyard work these days "because while we almost always get great ripeness, now the challenge is to make sure that there is enough finesse, especially with tannins."While you can do a lot in the cellar, he said, "you're going to have to work that much harder if you bring in fruit that isn't balanced, with proper juice and skin ratios and ripe seeds."

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"Two thousand nine made a lot of great wine but one thing that you need to look out for is dry tannins," Thierry Usseglio told me in November. He compared 2009 with 2006 but says that the later vintage has more structure and will need more patience. Like all of his colleagues Usseglio lamented the low yields achieved in 2010, which in his case were as low as 12 hectoliters per hectare in some sites, but said that the bright side was that the wines have excellent concentration of flavor without excess ripeness or weight. He compared 2010 to another great year, 2001, "because the wines are complete, with fantastic intensity, which is what still makes '01 a great year."