Chateau de Saint Cosme Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2017

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Vintage
2017

Size
750ML

ABV
15%

Features
Green Wine

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Aromas of marzipan, raisins, cinnamon and cherry that always conjure up Christmas time and its savory winter perfumes steeped in childhood memories.

Serve it with a leg of lamb cooked as slowly as possible so that it truly melts in the mouth. 

Blend: 50% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre, 15% Syrah, 5% Cinsault

Professional Ratings

  • 96
    A sultry licorice spine extends from nose to finish in this wine, accenting concentrated flavors of strawberry and black-cherry preserves. A blend of 50% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre, 15% Syrah and 5% Cinsault, it’s a satiny sip dusted with cocoa powder and soft, feathery tannins. Alluring in fruit and lifted by a mineral crush, it’s ready now but should improve through 2030. Editors' Choice.
  • 95

    Offers mulled plum, blackberry and black cherry fruit mixed in with steeped black tea, sandalwood and tobacco leaf notes. A mineral edge adds cut and drive to the finish, while the black tea note smolders seductively. Built for the cellar. Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Cinsault. Best from 2022 through 2036

  • 94

    Saint Cosme's 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape is a blend of 50% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre, 15% Syrah and 5% Cinsault, from the lieux-dits of La Crau, Varoli and Le Cristia. Aged two years in used barrels, it gracefully melds traces of vanilla and baking spices with seductive cherries and toasted almonds. Medium to full-bodied, it's silky in feel, with a prolonged, softly dusty finish. While some 2017s need additional cellaring, this one looks ready to go, but capable of aging well for more than a decade.

  • 91
    Lastly, Barruol has recently dabbed his toe into the waters of Châteauneuf Du Pape, and his 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape offers a sunny, round, medium to full-bodied profile that’s already hard to resist. Lots of spice, kirsch, lavender, and garrigue notes, solid mid-palate depth, sweet tannins, and a great finish all make for an outstanding wine that’s capable of lasting for over a decade.

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Chateau de Saint Cosme

Chateau de Saint Cosme

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Chateau de Saint Cosme, France
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Chateau de Saint Cosme is the leading estate of Gigondas and produces the appellation’s benchmark wines. Wine has been produced on the site of Saint Cosme since Roman times, evident by the ancient Gallo-Roman vats carved into the limestone below the chateau. The property has been in the hands of Louis Barruol’s family since 1570. Henri and Claude Barruol took over in 1957 and gradually moved Saint Cosme away from the bulk wine business. Henri was one of the first in the region to work organically beginning in the 1970s. Louis Barruol took over from his father in 1992, making a dramatic shift to quality, adding a négociant arm to the business in 1997, and converting to biodynamics in 2010.

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With bold fruit flavors and accents of sweet spice, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre form the base of the classic Rhône Red Blend, while Carignan, Cinsault and Counoise often come in to play. Though they originated from France’s southern Rhône Valley, with some creative interpretation, Rhône blends have also become popular in other countries. Somm Secret—Putting their own local spin on the Rhône Red Blend, those from Priorat often include Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. In California, it is not uncommon to see Petite Sirah make an appearance.

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Famous for its full-bodied, seductive and spicy reds with flavor and aroma characteristics reminiscent of black cherry, baked raspberry, garrigue, olive tapenade, lavender and baking spice, Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the leading sub-appellation of the southern Rhône River Valley. Large pebbles resembling river rocks, called "galets" in French, dominate most of the terrain. The stones hold heat and reflect it back up to the low-lying gobelet-trained vines. Though the galets are typical, they are not prominent in every vineyard. Chateau Rayas is the most obvious deviation with very sandy soil.

According to law, eighteen grape varieties are allowed in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and most wines are blends of some mix of these. For reds, Grenache is the star player with Mourvedre and Syrah coming typically second. Others used include Cinsault, Counoise and occasionally Muscardin, Vaccarèse, Picquepoul Noir and Terret Noir.

Only about 6-7% of wine from Châteauneuf-du-Pape is white wine. Blends and single-varietal bottlings are typically based on the soft and floral Grenache Blanc but Clairette, Bourboulenc and Roussanne are grown with some significance.

The wine of Chateauneuf-du-Pape takes its name from the relocation of the papal court to Avignon. The lore says that after moving in 1309, Pope Clément V (after whom Chateau Pape-Clément in Pessac-Léognan is named) ordered that vines were planted. But it was actually his successor, John XXII, who established the vineyards. The name however, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, translated as "the pope's new castle," didn’t really stick until the 19th century.

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