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2012 Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Châteauneuf Du Pape

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

85% Grenache, 5% Syrah, 5% Mourvèdre, 5% Vaccarèse

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Drinking Window

2016 - 2028

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Laurent Charvin's wine relies heavily on Grenache and by now we all know the 2013 drill: production was dramatically below average and there was more reliance on the darker, late-ripening varieties than usual here. Charvin believes that that will make his '13 a tougher read for a few years, but added that "the Grenache that we were able to pick came in fully ripe, and the wine should pull itself into harmony in the next four or five years."

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"Nobody can call the last few vintages here boring," Laurent Charvin told me in November, which he explained was "his way of saying that there's never been so much stress and work for so little wine." Like all of his colleagues, Charvin is alarmed by the ongoing issue of short to seemingly nonexistent grenache crops, courtesy of coulure, which he says "have had a huge financial impact" on growers and producers."While Chateauneuf isn't suffering as much as Volnay, for example, it's going to be a huge problem if we don't get back to normal production soon.A small producer can only absorb so much yield loss."Charvin views 2011 as "a vintage in the line of 2008, 2006 and 2004, but with more fruit intensity than 2008 and probably 2006."It's a vintage to drink during its first decade, "but there isn't a huge hurry."