Wine Skeptic

Le Vieux Donjon Chateauneuf du Pape

My sister and brother in law visited this weekend, and you’ll see the dinner wines we indulged in, but had to go to the cellar and pick out one of the special wines. This one was a birthday present from last year, and something I had been anticipating. The notable quality was that we decanted this before going out to dinner. Dinner was.. excessive, so there was little palette left to enjoy it so I left it overnight, then the next night had a bit, and the night after had a bit more. I can say it was lovely balanced, spicy cherry and meat. Not a lot of barnyard, but terrior driven, but an ability to drink well out of the bottle, the next day showing a new profile of a bit more fruit, then the third day, the oxidation allowing actually a nice stewed plum element. A classy bottle.