Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe (Famille Brunier), Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau, Southern Rhône, France 2014 noinventory but perhaps with a bit

but perhaps with a bit more fruit power behind them – possibly a result of Maxime using less whole cluster (around 30% compared to 100% at Domaine Alain Graillot)

Ideally enjoyed neat

her brother Giorgio became a free agent

Eventually

Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe (Famille Brunier), Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau, Southern Rhône, France 2014 noinventory but perhaps with a bitFull of finesse and alluring notes of black cherry, eucalyptus, mint, and garrigue. Of course, its still Grenache grown under a southern sun and in a soil packed full with radiating rounded river stones, so theres plenty of structure, flavor, and succulence. But if you welcome a soulful country rouge with a little more elegance and poise than usual, youre in for a treat. One cannot think of Chteauneuf du Pape, the most celebrated cru of the southern