Barroche, Chateauneuf Du Pape Size:12x750ml offering intense blueberry

offering intense blueberry

the supporting tannins are somewhat drying and this tends to cut the finish short

Otherwise there is both lovely freshness and verve to the much larger-scaled flavors that are at once rich and tautly muscular

A background application of toasty oak frames a pungent earthy and somber nose of beautifully well-layered dark berry fruit

compact and moderately austere finale that also reflects a trace of warmth

Barroche, Chateauneuf Du Pape Size:12x750ml offering intense blueberryVivid ruby. Strikingly complex, expansive aromas of raspberry and blackberry, garrigue and brown spices. Open knit red fruit flavors are concentrated but in no way heavy, with a bracing mineral quality adding spine. The finish is sweet, broad and very persistent. This cuvee was previously called "Reserve." Josh Raynolds