This was a very attractive wine - despite my usual dislike for sweet fruit and ripeness and Grenache! But the fruit was more toward the red end of the spectrum than the dark - though it is unmistakably a hot year wine. With air, savouriness creeps in and it becomes perfumed like an oolong tea. Rich and sweet, of course, but also crisply tannic; refreshing finish. No obvious oak, but it does age for a year (IIRC) in 1-5 times used barriques.
When given this blind I blurted that it is a Platonic ideal of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. But I wasn't too far off with this grandiose statement: a quick Google suggests that this property is just on the other side of the river. Good stuff, and even better now a couple hours later (I took the remains home!
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