Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2017 750ml - SPIRITED Wines
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Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge  2017 750ml
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Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge 2017

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750ml
$159.99
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Category Red Wine
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Origin France, Rhone
Brand Clos des Papes
This one of the best producers is France, let alone Chateauneuf du Pape! 
This bottle is a sleeper for the vintage - showing amazing depth and structure with a wonderful balance
and style that continues to age gracefully. 
Jeb Dunnuck
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Outer quote mark One of the strongest wines in the vintage is the 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape from Vincent Avril. This beauty has everything you could ask for. As with the 2018, the blend is heavily shifted toward Mourvèdre, and it offers a mammoth bouquet of black cherries, graphite, cured meats, Asian spices, and assorted garrigue-like nuances. Deep, full-bodied, and concentrated, it stays straight and focused on the palate (whereas the 2016 is more expansive and voluptuous), with a stacked mid-palate, ripe, silky tannins, and fabulous length. You’re going to want bottles of this in the cellar, and comparing the 2007, 2010, 2016, and 2017 over the coming two decades is going to be a treat. 98+ Inner quote mark

Wine Advocate
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As predicted last year by Paul-Vincent Avril, the 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape is a blend of 45% Grenache, 40% Mourvèdre, about 10% Syrah and the rest other permitted varieties. It boasts a cool, fresh nose of strawberries, cola and tree bark, yet it's full-bodied and tannic on the palate. Dense and chewy, albeit with a mouthwatering sense of freshness, this will need a few years to relax and unwind, but it looks very promising.

Decanter
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There's 10% less Grenache in the blend this year, topped up with extra Mourvèdre which certainly makes itself felt. The final assemblage has a lovely depth and concentration of fruit, and is relatively tannic and structured in this vintage. It has plum and violet lift to the aromatic profile, and perhaps sacrifices a little elegance for power and potency in 2017 - not necessarily a bad thing, depending on your taste. A Clos des Papes for the depths of the cellar.

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