2008 Châteauneuf du Pape Clos des Papes Paul Avril - 6x150cl
10A8CPCPAM _ 2008 - Châteauneuf du Pape Clos des Papes Paul Avril - 6x150cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Clos des Papes
  • Region Châteauneuf du Pape
  • Grape Grenache / Syrah / Mourvèdre and others
  • Drinking 2015 - 2024
  • Case size 6x150cl
  • Available Now

2008 - Châteauneuf du Pape Clos des Papes Paul Avril - 6x150cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Clos des Papes
  • Region Châteauneuf du Pape
  • Grape Grenache / Syrah / Mourvèdre and others
  • Drinking 2015 - 2024
  • Case size 6x150cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £722.14 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £575.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, October 2009

    A delicious and refined wine, the 2008 offers a core intense blackberry fruit, sweet spice, red cherries and ripe, round tannins. Very pretty and silky. The vintage conditions allowed for less alcohol - 14.5% compared to its more recent 15.6% which makes a refreshing change. Vincent compares the 2008 to the 2001, a beautifully poised wine that we showed at our 2005 vintage tasting and all loved.

  • Robert Parker, October 2009, Score: 89-92

    As always, I tasted through all the different foudres, and the 2008 Chateauneuf du Pape, which will have essentially the same blend, is a much less powerful wine than the 2007. Made from some of the smallest yields ever (16 hectoliters per hectare), with 14.7% alcohol, the 2008 should turn out to be a very good, elegant effort vaguely reminiscent of their 1999. It exhibits a deep ruby color as well as abundant black cherry fruit intermixed with notions of licorice, herbs, and earth, medium body, and good purity, depth, and ripeness. It should drink well at a young age, an anomaly for Clos des Papes, and keep for 10-12 years.

Producer

Clos des Papes

One of the oldest winemaking families in Châteauneuf du Pape, the Avrils began their vinous adventures in the early 17th century. Today, the domaine is run by Vincent Avril who took over from his father Paul in the early 1990s. Rightly revered as one of the greatest growers of the appellation, Vincent Avril is lifting his long-established family estate to new heights. Having studied in Burgundy and trained in cellars all ov...Read more

One of the oldest winemaking families in Châteauneuf du Pape, the Avrils began their vinous adventures in the early 17th century. Today, the domaine is run by Vincent Avril who took over from his father Paul in the early 1990s. Rightly revered as one of the greatest growers of the appellation, Vincent Avril is lifting his long-established family estate to new heights. Having studied in Burgundy and trained in cellars all over the world (including a stage at Mouton Rothschild) Vincent Avril saw in his 32nd vintage at the domaine in 2017. He makes supreme wines, blending varieties from the moment they are picked, so that Grenache may be co-fermented with Syrah or Mourvèdre, or all three together. His various cuves are therefore mini blends, and show the different facets of the final blend. Vincent is uninterested in creating super cuvées, so makes just one red and one white, which he considers the best expression of this appellation. He abhors the idea of selling any wine in bulk, and that 70% of the appellation is traded like this makes him furious. At Clos des Papes, if the fruit is not good enough for the blend it simply won’t make it as far as the winery door. Low yields ensure concentration, and the same team of pickers over the past 20 years safeguard careful selection of each bunch.Read less

Region

Châteauneuf du Pape

The emperor of southern Rhône appellations, Châteauneuf du Pape was the first A.O.C. in all of France, created in 1936. Their bottle is unique embossed with the papal coat of arms. Thirteen varieties (14 if Grenache Blanc is counted separately) can be incorporated in the blend. The reds include: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan, Cinsault, Terret Noir, Picpoul, Vaccarèse, Counoise, Muscardin, while the whites are Roussanne, Bourboulenc and Clairette. Only a handful of producers use all 13, Grenache often being the highest percentage of the blend. This enables each producer to highlight the varieties that are the ripest and most interesting in any given year. Most Châteauneuf du Pâpes are master examples of wines that can be approachable within the first few years of release yet able to develop superb complexity during many years of cellaring.

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