Domaine Saint Préfert Châteauneuf-du-Pape Collection Charles Giraud
Tasted 31 October 2020
Southern Rhône · Châteauneuf-du-Pape
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 its youth). Yet,…
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…
PnP was all about heat and ripe red fruit. A three hour decant kept at a cool cellar temperature helped a bit, but it stayed primary and linear throughout most of consumption. It gained all of its…
