Clos du Mont Olivet Chateauneuf-du-Pape 'Cuvee Papet' 2016
Product price
$150.00
Description
"There are two types of producers in Chateauneuf; those who chased Parker points in the aughts and those who didn't. Those who did ended up making a lot of what we like to call around these parts as "Gloop", Grenache so thick you feel like it is going to slowly pour out of the bottle like syrup. Those who didn't stuck to their guns and kept making what Jeb Dunnuck calls, "ultra-traditional, age-worthy Châteauneuf-du-Pape". Mont Olivet is the latter."
"Cuvee Papet is their Grand Vin and 2016 is one of my favorite vintages for Southern Rhone, period. There is a life and freshness to 16 which is a perfect compliment to the country-fied flavors of this style of CDP. At 10 years, this bad boy is just entering its plateau for drinking which I predict is where it will remain for another 20."
JT Robertson, General Manager-Le Du Wines
jt@leduwines.com
Expert Reviews
Another best to date, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Cuvée du Papet from Thierry Sabon is pure perfection in a glass. More powerful than the classic cuvée, with killer black raspberries, crushed rocks, garrigue, salty minerality, and iodine, it's deep, full-bodied, concentrated, and sexy, yet has building tannin. It's one of those “iron fist in a velvet glove” wines and continued to gain depth and richness every time I went back to the glass. Old-school, traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape doesn’t get any better, and readers should beg, borrow or steal to get a hold of this. Hide bottles for 4-5 years (or more), count yourself lucky, and enjoy bottles over the following 2-3 decades”