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2010 Domaine de Beaurenard (Coulon) Boisrenard Chateauneuf du Pape

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August 28, 2022 - $61

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RATINGS

97Wine Spectator

Contains some exotic fruit—blueberry paste, boysenberry and raspberry confiture, and pastis-soaked currant—but it’s a brick house too, with Turkish coffee, bittersweet chocolate and lots of singed wood spice notes fanning out on the finish

93Vinous / IWC

...Lush and open-knit but energetic, offering intense red and dark berry flavors and a sexy lavender pastille quality...This is the most elegant and lithe bottling of Boisrenard that I can recall, but it's by no means a lightweight.

91Robert M. Parker Jr.

...offers toasty new oak, a chocolaty, sweet black cherry jamminess, black currant, licorice and graphite characteristics...a top-flight wine that should drink well for 10-15 years.

18Jancis Robinson

Lustrous crimson. Floral, charming perfume. Very sweet and round and unusual. Like a bouquet of roses until almost the end when its heavy cloak of velvety tannins emerges. Very exciting wine though in blowsy rather than focused style.

REGION

France, Rhône Valley, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the appellation, is a large area of nearly 8,000 vineyard acres centered around the picturesque town of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Located in southeastern France just north of the Avignon hills, the name of the appellation means “new castle of the pope” and it is a reference to the 14th century, when the Popes of Avignon built summer homes in the Southern Rhone Valley. Today the appellation is one of the most renowned in France and its terroir is known for layers of small pebbles, called “galets.” The stones in the soil are thought to help store heat and keep the soil warm, which helps ripen the grapes. The stones also help keep the soil from drying out in hot summer months. In 1923 Châteauneuf-du-Pape was a leader in establishing the idea that AOC wines in France should be made only with specified grapes, and the appellation allowed 13 grape varieties to be used. Since then the rules have been slightly modified to include several more allowable grapes. Red and white wines are produced, though in practice about 97% of all Châteauneuf –du-Papes are reds made with a blend of Grenache Noir, Cinsault, Counoise, Mourvedre, Muscardine, Syrah and Vaccarese. The red wines of this appellation are prized for being big, rich, spicy and full-bodied. White wines of the appellation are made with Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Roussanne, Picpoul and Picardin. Whites are floral, fruity and relatively full-bodied.