Vieille Julienne, Chateauneuf Du Pape Reserve

Vieille Julienne, Chateauneuf Du Pape ReserveDeep in color, the nose blasts off with lavender, cherry, spice, pepper and earthy scents. When the wine hits the palate, the wine is deep, rich, concentrated and packed with sweet, silky, black raspberries, cherry and kirsch that remains on your palate and expands in flavor. This bottle was popped and poured. Perhaps, if the wine and I both had more time together, this could hit triple digits. It's truly a stunning example of old vine Grenache.

There is very good verve to the utterly delicious and slightly finer medium weight flavors that coat the palate with dry extract on the balanced and harmonious finish

There is enormous depth to this voluminous Malartic-Lagravière

sometimes many years

powerful and quite serious with brooding flavors that brim with dry extract that buffers the firm acid spine on the intensely mineral-driven and explosively long finish

Possessing medium-bodied richness

Look for four decades or more of luxuriant satisfaction

mild and dry seasons

minty cocoa nuance that builds with aeration

Tasting date

mineral-accented aromas of ripe black and blue fruits

this should improve as it fills out

The 2016 Vintage Port was originally seen about a week before bottling in a more unsettled incarnation