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Vieux Donjon Chateauneuf Du Pape 2008

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$136.98Original List Price

103.99Best Price On The Web
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104

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Code: 60973

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Since April 24, 2024 12:00PM

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Rating:	93 Pts Wine Spectator	Size:	1.5L
Region:	Rhone	Country:	France
Varietals:	Grenache / Garnacha	ABV:	14.8%

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More Ratings:

93 Pts Wine Spectator

Note: This a 1.5L Magnum sized bottle

"This is rock-solid, with crushed raspberry, kirsch, juniper and smoked apple wood notes, backed by a broad, plush, spice- and anise-filled finish. Nicely rounded and integrated for the vintage. Drink now through 2021. 2,200 cases made." -93 points Wine Spectator

"A beautiful wine, the 2008 Le Vieux Donjon Chateauneuf-du-Pape shows the best of the vintage with elegant, classy aromatics of ripe black cherries, garrigue, spiced meat, and solid underlying minerality. Fresh and complex on the nose (picks up a touch of mole sauce with air), the wine is medium bodied on the palate with a superb, pure, light texture, perfect balance, integrated acidity and a long finish. I tasted this once at the domaine (rated 91) and then followed a bottle over two days at home. It fails to truly impress right on opening but really comes into its own on the second day. I'm a fan and would opt to let bottles rest for 2 to 3 years before drinking over the following decade. Tasted three times." -92 points - Jeb Dunnuck - Rhone Report

"Full red. Assertively perfumed, offering raspberry and strawberry preserve scents and intense floral character. Then fresh and energetic in the mouth, with bright red and dark berry and floral pastille flavors, fine-grained tannins and good mineral spine. A lingering white pepper note adds complexity to a long, spicy finish. This is quite successful for the vintage." -91 points - Josh Raynolds - International Wine Cellar

Cellar Tracker favorite! This wine received a median score of 91 points in 22 notes. Click here to read all of the reviews.

WINE:
"The blend for 2008 is 75% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Mourvedre and 5% Cinsault and others. The secret to the success of Le Vieux Donjon is really no secret at all. They have tremendously old vines (many in excess of 80 years of age) and they are experts at picking only once the grapes have achieved optimum ripeness. Partial de-stemming is practiced, as is a rather lengthy maceration. The juice is then fermented in cement tanks before spending 18-24 months maturing in neutral foudres. As is the case at Clos des Papes, only one cuvee is produced." -Importer

WINERY:
"Le Vieux Donjon, as it exists today, was created in 1979 with the marriage of Lucien and Marie Jose Michel. Both Lucien and Marie Jose's parents owned vineyards in the region, and those holding were combined to form Le Vieux Donjon."

"The domaine covers fourteen hectares of vineyards (all farmed organically), thirteen planted to red grapes and one planted to white. The Michel's holdings are primarily in the North and Northwest of the AOC, but they also have small plots in the Southwest and East. Their most important parcel is Pialons, and the grapes from the 2008 come from that parcel as well as those in Cabrieres, Bois de Boursan, Les Marines and Le Mourre de Gaude. The soils are mainly limestone and clay, and are studded with the famed galets roule, the round, rust-colored stones which were left behind after the retreat of the Alpine glaciers which once covered the region." -Importer

This scored 88-90 points by Robert Parker.

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