2012 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Châteauneuf Du Pape

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Rhone Blend

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2019 - 2030

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The short Grenache crop hit this domain especially hard in 2013, Sophie Armenier told me, pointing out that since their Vieilles Vignes bottling is based exclusively on this variety there simply wasn't enough fruit to justify making it. Thus all those grapes, which come from vines that are over a century old (the average vine age across the domain's 18 hectares of plantings is more than 50 years), wound up in the regular 2013 Châteauneuf. All of the fruit in '13 was fully ripe, Armenier told me, and that was because the family decided to wait the harvest out, which she said was essential if you didn't want green and herbal character in the wines. "The start of the growing season was so late and slow that we were behind on ripeness all year, until September." Picking on a regular schedule was out of the question, she said, and fortunately Mother Nature decided to play nice into October.

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