Clos Papes, Chateauneuf Du Pape Blanc

Clos Papes, Chateauneuf Du Pape BlancVarious plots around the appellation are farmed organically, and all varieties are co fermented for this wine. It has aromas of pear, anise, flowers and heather honey, with a medium to full bodied palate displaying very pure pear fruit, grapefruit and some florality. It has lovely internal sweetness, with a honeyed quince character. A really lovely expression of quite intense fruit a little too intense to be truly elegant perhaps, but with good

it has some grainy tannins

It’s an excellent wine in a year that keeps on delivering right through the palate and hangs on for more

The palate is very elegant

the vineyards limestone soils manage to impart the requisite acidity

but he is the man who has produced all of Gajas most legendary wines going back to 1970

My recent visit to Giacomo Conterno was fascinating

All of the Trapet 2016s are obviously extremely young wines but I cannot recommend buying it as it’s difficult to like at present and I cannot recommend aging it for fear that it will dry out

Refreshing on the palate

This is almost as complex and aromatically pure as the ‘04 with notes of game

There is outstanding concentration and muscle to the punchy medium weight plus flavors that conclude in a beautifully long and notably firm finish of focused power and seriously good depth

40% Semillon and 14% Sauvignon Gris

The palate is very well balanced and surprisingly well defined considering the heat of that summer