Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe - Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 2019
Price: $94.99
Producer | Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe |
Country | France |
Region | Rhone Valley |
Subregion | Chateauneuf-du-Pape |
Varietal | Rhone Blend |
Vintage | 2019 |
Sku | 33429 |
James Suckling: 97 Points
If anyone tells you that Châteauneuf is just a big red that’s never elegant, then they need to taste this masterpiece of elegance. So many spicy and savory nuances on the very concentrated but almost perfectly proportioned palate. This is both joyful and serious at the very long, focused finish.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape La Crau is a hugely successful vintage, marked by scents of sun-warmed stones, garrigue, black cherries and black olives. Full-bodied, rich and velvety, it finishes with tremendous length and softly dusty tannins, which should help ensure a long, positive evolution.
Jeb Dunnuck: 94 Points
The 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape is ruby/purple-hued and has the classic translucent color of the domaine. It's more precise and focused than the Télégramme and will need more time, but it offers a complex, gorgeous bouquet of red and black fruits, crushed stone, wild fennel, and ground pepper. Pure, medium to full-bodied, and elegant, do your best to hide bottles for 5-7 years and it's going to keep for two decades.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
#71 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2022
Silky and refined, with focused cherry puree, plum reduction and raspberry coulis notes racing through, infused subtly with rose petal, warm stone and lavender hints. Features nice perfume through the finish. Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Cinsault.