Description

Red Wine: 2000 | Domaine Charvin | Chateauneuf-du-Pape

Perhaps a bit past its prime, yet, you still find plenty of peppery red fruits, a bushel of herbs, thyme and flowers, and a medium-bodied hit of black raspberries and bright, peppery, cherries and green olives in the finish.

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Producer: Domaine Charvin

Ratings: WA | 93 WS | 90

Vintage: 2000

Size: 750ml

ABV: 15%

Varietal: Southern Rhone Red Blend

Country/Region: France, Rhone

Perhaps a bit past its prime, yet, you still find plenty of peppery red fruits, a bushel of herbs, thyme and flowers, and a medium-bodied hit of black raspberries and bright, peppery, cherries and green olives in the finish. This is not a wine to hold for further development.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Also mature, yet still lively and fresh, the 2000 Chateauneuf du Pape is a beauty that gives up loads of pepper, earth, ground herbs and ripe Grenache-driven fruit to go with a medium to full-bodied, nicely concentrated, balanced feel.

• Wine Spectator: Seductive, medium-bodied Chteauneuf made in a traditional style. Lots of wet earth, mineral, leather, smoke, truffles and black currant are presented with charm on a creamy-textured finish filled with ripe, buttered-up tannins.

Producer Information

Domaine Charvin is a southern Rhne producer based in the famous village of Chteauneuf-du-Pape. Its wines are mostly Grenache-dominant blends, with smaller amounts of Syrah, Mourvdre, Vaccarese, Bourboulenc and Carignan. The domaine was established in 1851 in Chteauneuf-du-Pape by Guillaume Charvin. The estate then spent the majority of its history making bulk wines to be sold to and bottled by local ngociants. Apart from a special estate bottling marking the domaine’s centenary, the practice of making bulk wines continued up until the 1990s. In 1990 Laurent Charvin, the sixth generation in the family to work at the winery, began the practice of estate bottling for commercial distribution under the domaine’s own label. The winery has since expanded its vineyards, more than doubling its property in Chteauneuf-du-Pape to a little more than eight hectares (20 acres), and a further 12 hectares (30 acres) of vineyards in the Ctes du Rhne (and Vin de France) viticultural zone. Domaine Charvin makes a single Chteauneuf-du-Pape wine, and a range of red, white and ros Ctes du Rhne labels. The wines are fermented and aged in cement tanks, and never see any oak.