Drinking in Avignon wine #10. The last one from this series, and easily the best. Bought the bottle in the producers shop in the centre of the town Chateauneuf-du-Pape, where one can taste through the whole range, including the expensive top wines, I highly recommend to visit it if you are in town.
A modern, but pure style, focusing on the fruit-power. Ripe and crunchy fruits on the nose like blackcurrants, freshness is well preserved, it’s far from beeing sweet or cloying. Smooth on the palate, with a creamy texture and perfectly proportioned tannic grip – it neither dominates or is lacking, so the wine is just ideal for early consumption. So polished and lush and clean, a lot more fruity than regular Rhone villages or cru reds from unknown producers around this price, yet it has structure and typictiy too. Probably a bit of residual sugar rounding out the palate? Very well made, clever wine, obviously from a top producer. Easy to drink but far from being simple. Best to drink now I guess, no reason to hold.
Rating: very good, 89 points.
Price: 16 euros.
Value: bad, bad.
Tasted: in May, 2019.
Source: I bought it in a local supermarket.