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Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, La Crau Rouge 2016

Vieux Telegraphe

Case Format: 6x75cl

Max score: 98.0

Le Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe has been run by the Brunier family for six generations – since 1891 to be precise. The estate’s vineyards, 70 years old on average, are planted on the celebrated Plateau of La Crau, a site renowned for grape-growing in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. This terroir imparts to their wines a highly distinctive minerality, as if they have been filtered through the thick layer of large pebbles left behind when the Alpine glaciers melted, long before the Rhône Valley formed.

Chateauneuf-du-Pape, La Crau Rouge is a beautiful and elegant wine. Good vintages can reach twenty-five years and more.

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CRITIC REVIEWS

98
James Suckling

Impressive, complex array of wild cherries, raspberries, garrigue herbs, lightly spiced pastry and stony, chalky minerals. Super-fresh florals. The palate has superb texture, roundness, completeness, depth and detail. Powerful yet elegant with powdery tannins and essence-like red fruit. Super-fleshy, supple and dense core, then strong at the edges. Layer upon layer peels away on the finish. Resounding finesse and equilibrium, showing the full potential of the plateau La Crau. Drink or hold.

92
James Lawther MW

The nose is ripe and solar with a jammy, raisined edge. The palate, though, is fresh and expressive of the terroir with stony, mineral and herbal notes. The tannins are firm and present but refined, the finish dry with a slight glow of alcohol. Theres ageing potential here. Maturation was in French oak foudres (20-22 months). The wine also contains 5% of other varieties (Cinsault, Clairette, etc.).

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