Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Les Hauts-Lieux Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2019

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Les Hauts-Lieux Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2019Region: Southern Rhone, France Varietal: Blend of 80% Grenache & 20% Mourvedrec Tasting Notes: Chteauneuf du Pape Les Hauts Lieux comes from a cooler, higher elevation parcel and is 80% Grenache and 20% Mourvdre. Where the Trois Source cuve is upfront and exuberant, this beauty offers more minerality as well as lots of ripe blackberry fruits, spice, roasted meats and hints of violets in a concentrated, backwards, tannic style. Forget bottles for 5 6

Serve at a temperature of 17 ° C

Pairs well with chocolate or chocolate mousse and red fruit based desserts or simply strawberries and cream

The palate's so lithe and elegant with firm tannins

there is a sensation of fresh silkiness

Concentrated and structured attack with a tinge of silky tannins

Delicious ripe cherry and strawberry fruits show terrific power and drive across the palate

woodsmoke and pipe tobacco with an earthy undercurrent

balanced acidity and a long finish

reticent tannins and a very long finish

lemon meringue and white blossoms

rosemary & lavender

Tasting Notes: Complex nose of fresh cherry and raspberry with hints of yeasty lees and nutty aroma