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Chateau de Vaudieu Chateauneuf du Pape 2016 - First Bottle

Technical Details

Blend	80% Grenache and 20% Syrah
Country	France
Region	Rhone Valley
Appellation	Chateauneuf du Pape
Alcohol	15

Chateau de Vaudieu Chateauneuf du Pape 2016

Rhone Blends | France

WS94, WE94, WA93, VN93, JD91

$44.95 $55.00 - 750mL

Wow! Perfect all-the-time red drinking (at our price, especially!), we cannot keep our hands off this delicious bottling - the way it flows with pure red goodness, strawberry, raspberry, kirsch and red apple, lush, yet precise and totally focused on the fruit and the secondary garrigue-y spices. Just awesome!

Laurent Brechet has lovingly resurrected this noble domaine and established it as one of the most forward and terroir driven properties in the region. The property sits at a junction of the main soil types found in Châteauneuf. Decomposed sandstone, red clay-limestone, and galets (rolled stones) are all present, giving a broad palette of terroir to work with.

Just read the (many!) glowing reviews below, but do it quickly... We’re wishing we had more, for sure!

PAIRING IDEAS: We had the BEST mushroom dumplings this weekend, and they’d be extra fantastic with this wine, we think. Try this recipe or order them from your fave place (ours was “Lo + Behold” in Healdsburg).

MUSIC SUGGESTIONS: Check out the California Honeydrop’s new single: “Get Real High”!

Technical Details

Blend	80% Grenache and 20% Syrah
Country	France
Region	Rhone Valley
Appellation	Chateauneuf du Pape
Alcohol	15%

About The Producer

Vaudieu is the flagship of the Brechet family. It spreads over 123 acres of the best terroirs of the appellation as one massive contiguous vineyard. Vaudieu's size and diversity is one of the crown jewel vineyards of the appellation. The estate is now run by Sylvette Brechet with the help of her sons Laurent and Julien.

Reviews

Wine Spectator
Gorgeous, with a lush core of raspberry, blueberry and boysenberry puree flavors gliding through, flecked with anise, violet and incense notes. Carried by fresh, well-embedded acidity, this is lush and beguiling through the lengthy finish. Best from 2020 through 2035.

Wine Enthusiast
While crisp black-cherry and strawberry flavors are fresh and pristine on the nose, this is an opulent, powerful red. Dried-strawberry and plum flavors are concentrated, accented by hints of earth and firm, taut tannins. It's luscious red-fruit flavors are approachable already but firm structure and fresh acidity should allow integration and improvement through 2030 and hold further still.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Even Vadieu's "regular" CdP is excellent. The 2016 Chateauneuf du Pape, an 80-20 blend of Grenache and Syrah mostly aged in concrete, offers ripe red raspberry and apricot notes alongside delicate hints of spice and garrigue. Full-bodied and lush, it shows off wonderfully ripe Grenache fruit without much in the way of other adornment or artifice, finishing long and silky.

Vinous
Deep ruby. Heady aromas of dark berry liqueur, incense and cola, along with a suave floral nuance that builds with air. Smoky and seamless on the palate, offering fleshy, alluringly sweet red and blue fruit, spicecake and candied licorice flavors braced by a spine of juicy acidity. Closes with excellent clarity, smooth tannins and floral-dominated persistence, leaving subtle star anise and boysenberry notes behind.

Jeb Dunnuck
The 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a great nose of garrigue, black raspberries, spice, exotic flowers, and orange peel. With medium to full-bodied, present yet sweet tannin, and a great finish, drink this balanced beauty over the coming decade. The blend is 80% Grenache and 20% Syrah, aged one year in mix of old barrels and concrete tanks.