2008 Châteauneuf-du-Pape
France
Châteauneuf Du Pape
Southern Rhône
Red
Rhone Blend
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There is only one bottling of Chateauneuf du Pape here in 2008, and it's a pretty seductive, open-knit wine already. Winemaker Bruno Gaspard called the vintage "a rare style nowadays because of the regularity of hot vintages. It's in the style of years like 1986, 1991, 1993, 1996 and 1997, meaning northern in character, not Provencal." Gaspard told me that "in 2009 quality was entirely dependent on the ripeness of the grape skins. The seeds ripened before the skins did, in mid-August actually, and you had to wait for the skins to catch up. If you harvested before that, your wines would be hard and the tannins dry." He emphasized that because of the estate's situation, on sandy soils, "late rain isn't a bad thing because it drains off before any serious damage can be done. So it's less of a concern for us than for people who have a lot of clay. On the other hand, if there isn't enough rain during the season, like in 2003, we've got more problems than vineyards whose clay allows for water retention."
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