Clos du Mont-Olivet, Chateauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvee du Papet, 1998
This is Chateauneuf as it was meant to taste with three decades on it. The label reads a little scrambled, but the wine is the real thing: Clos du Mont-Olivet's La Cuvee du Papet, the Sabon family's flagship, made only in the finest years from a selection of their oldest Grenache parcels (some vines planted over a century ago). And 1998 is one of the Southern Rhone's legendary vintages, warm and structured, a year built to go the distance. This old-vine, Grenache-dominant red is now fully, gorgeously mature. Pour it for someone who thinks they've had CdP but has never had one with this kind of age. A rare chance to drink a benchmark cuvee at its peak.
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This is Chateauneuf as it was meant to taste with three decades on it. The label reads a little scrambled, but the wine is the real thing: Clos du Mont-Olivet's La Cuvee du Papet, the Sabon family's flagship, made only in the finest years from a selection of their oldest Grenache parcels (some vines planted over a century ago). And 1998 is one of the Southern Rhone's legendary vintages, warm and structured, a year built to go the distance. This old-vine, Grenache-dominant red is now fully, gorgeously mature. Pour it for someone who thinks they've had CdP but has never had one with this kind of age. A rare chance to drink a benchmark cuvee at its peak.
