Stephen Tanzer's
International Wine Cellar, Jan/Feb 2008
($50) Deep, bright red. Pungent,
highly complex bouquet evokes cherry-cola, blood orange, fresh
flowers and minerals; smells like a Burgundy, and an awfully good one
at that. Supple red berry preserve flavors are enlivened by juicy
minerality and pick up a wild, smoked meat quality on the finish.
Very impressive cuvee classique.
93 points. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Oct 07
The 2005 Les Cailloux Chateauneuf du Pape is a ripe, heady wine, dense ruby-colored, with plenty of garrigue, pepper, and kirsch notes intermixed with plenty of earthy undertones and underbrush. The wine is tannic, medium to full-bodied, and will probably benefit from 1-3 years of bottle age and keep for 12-15 years. 90 points
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