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Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve 2010  - First Bottle

Reviews

100 Jeb Dunnuck -
Possibly the wine of the vintage and a mind blowing Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the 2010 Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve is off the charts and delivers a vivid, complex, and detailed bouquet of sappy flowers, violets, licorice, black currants, and smoked earth-like qualities on the nose. Full-bodied and perfectly put together on the palate, this powerful, elegant Châteauneuf-du-Pape has incredible richness and depth, yet stays light, ethereal, and weightless in the mouth. Up there with some of the greatest young wines I have ever tasted, it needs 5-7 years of bottle age and will evolve beautifully for over two decades.

Technical Details

  • BlendRhone Blend
  • WinemakerJean-Paul Daumen
  • CountryFrance
  • RegionRhone
  • AppellationChateauneuf-du-Pape
  • Farming MethodBiodynamically farmed

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve 2010

Rhone Blends  |  France
JD100, JL99, WA99, VN96

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
This is simply PERFECTION. $360 retail and just a whopper of a price today, 100 points people on a legendary vintage and wine! 2010 is such a fantastic vintage in Chateauneuf, everything just came together perfectly. With so few left in the market we highly suggest grabbing a few of these highly collectable CdPs from us. Jeb Dunnuck summed it up nicely in his 100 point review saying, "Possibly the wine of the vintage and a mind blowing Châteauneuf-du-Pape...Up there with some of the greatest young wines I have ever tasted, it needs 5-7 years of bottle age and will evolve beautifully for over two decades.."

About the Producer

Jean-Paul Daumen’s ancestors purchased this domain in 1905. Back then the entire production was sold to negociants. Starting in the 1960’s a small amount of wine was bottled, mostly for family and friends. Jean Paul’s father Maxime Daumen built cellars with new foudres to make and bottle more wine. Over the past decade Jean-Paul has emerged as one of the most compelling winemakers in all of France. Taking advantage of his ancient vines in the northern sector of Chateauneuf du Pape, and biodynamically farming the entire vineyard, he has produced extraordinary wines since 1998 that have received massive aclaim from the worlds most respected critics. The domaine covers 30 hectares of vineyard that average over 60 years old. The parcels of Grenache that go into the Reserve bottling of Chateauneuf du Pape are over 100 years old. Jean-Paul’s winemaking philosophy is quite simple - old vines, tiny yields of around 20 hl/ha, no SO2 during vinification, aging in neutral tanks or wood and bottling without fining or filtering. Chateauneuf du Papes have come and gone. These wines are truly gems and benchmarks of the appelation. Domaine de la Vieille Julienne’s wines are not released until Jean-Paul feels they are approaching their peak. This means that his wines age at the cellar and come into the market years after most other Chateauneuf du Papes have come and gone.