Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape SafresI loved the two 2005s from Clos du Caillou and this team knocked it out of the park in this vintage. The 2005 Chteauneuf du Pape les Safres is still inky colored, with fabulous aromas and flavors of sweet blackberries, currants, toasted spice, camphor and licorice. Full bodied, ripe and layered, with sweet tannin, this is a borderline fruit bomb that dishes out loads of pleasure. Much more open and exuberant than when I tasted it earlier this year, it

Nice saline kick on the finish

austere and incredibly persistent finish

Like the Malconsorts this intensely mineral-driven effort is somewhat less structured than usual though it certainly doesn’t lack for power and punch

8% Tempranillo and 3% Roussanne

humus and freshly turned earth

grilled meats and dried tangerine peel with saline

the 2014 G2 Vineyard comes from a site just to the southeast of James Berry (this was formerly known as Gravity Hills Vineyard) that was planted in the late 1990s

savory and spicy flavors in the mouth and is supported by a low to medium level of rounded tannins

which gained worldwide recognition among Trousseau lovers

cedar wood and a rich

(from the northern part of the Chambolle side where the soil is referred to as terres blanches

detailed and admirably wellbalanced flavors that culminate in a supple