Chateauneuf du Pape 2021 Lucile Avril - Domaine Durieu

Chateauneuf du Pape 2021 Lucile Avril - Domaine Durieu

Domaine Durieu

96/100 James Suckling

Tasted by Js in 2024 - ‘The 2021 season has been a real challenge for Chateauneuf producers, but this wine has gained Burgundian elegance, textural complexity and aromatic finesse. Earthy and autumnal, but with plenty of red summer fruit too, it's a masterpiece, with underrated power on the fairly full-bodied palate. The finish is extremely long and silky. Drink it or keep it’.

VARIETIES : 

- 85% 90-YEAR-OLD GRENACHE

- 10% MOURVÈDRE OF 60 YEARS OLD

- 5% SYRAH

- 6 Hectares

CROP AND SOIL: 

- Traditional culture

- Terroir : Plateau de Farguerol, Rolled pebbles

- Manual harvesting without destemming

TECHNICAL DATA : 

- Vinification of separate grape varieties

- Concrete winery

- No yeasting

- Maximum temperature: 30° refrigeration by flags

- Reassembly: 2 per day

- Duration of maceration: 30 days

- Ageing: Concrete vat for 18 months. Syrahs in new barrels for 12 months.

- Bottling : Without fining and light filtration at bottling.

TASTING NOTES :

This cuvée is a selection of the best plots of old Grenache de Châteauneuf du Pape from Domaine Durieu. These wines present at the same time fullness, suppleness, tannic structure, complexity, power and length on the palate. A few years of cellaring will enable it to obtain more roundness and a more elegant, full-bodied taste. depth.

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