Domaine Saint Préfert Châteauneuf-du-Pape Réserve Auguste Favier
Tasted 19 January 2020
Southern Rhône · Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The initial nose only spits dusty cedar and some of grandma's dresser drawer at you, making you wish you could put the cork back in and pretend you didn't make this mistake for another 3-5+ years. On the palate, linear…
Checking in on this wine from a couple years ago, I found this to exhibit its best glide after a few hours in the decanter, where it had the opportunity to blow off its slightly boozy heat on the…
This is a total gym rat of a CdP, with power and chewy toughness forming the frame for ripe black and dark red raspberry fruit flavors punching their way through the palate (rather than along the…
Ya, so this is pretty rockin' juice. It needs a decent decant to blow off the slightest bit of booze (which is surprising how low the perceptible alcohol here is overall considering how its built and…
