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Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape 2015  - First Bottle

Reviews

98 Wine Spectator -
This offers a drop-dead gorgeous core of cassis and raspberry pate de fruit flavors that hold center stage but still allow notes of Lapsang souchong tea, anise, incense and shiso leaf to chime in. Very long, with a sublime feel through the mineral-tinged finish. So seductive already, but this should cruise in the cellar. Drink now through 2040. 6,000 cases made. -JM
97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
Bottled in May, the 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape is a floral, elegant, unbelievably complex wine. Roses and violets, cherries and stone fruit, cinnamon and allspice and more are carried across the full-bodied yet almost weightless palate, finishing in a swirl of silky tannins and lingering spice. Drink it over the next two decades.

Technical Details

  • BlendRhone Blend
  • CountryFrance
  • RegionRhone
  • AppellationChateauneuf du Pape

Clos des Papes Chateauneuf du Pape 2015

Rhone Blend  |  France
WS98, WA97

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!

One final parcel of one of our very favorite 2015 CdPs has landed! When it's gone it's gone! With 98 points from WS and 97 from Wine Advocate, this should be in everyone’s cellar --- and at under $100 it feels like you could probably drink it at LEAST once a month, are we right?

The master at work! Wine Spectator says: “...drop dead gorgeous...sublime feel…” and we cannot disagree. WOW, what a price, too!

Seriously, buy enough to drink AND cellar -- it’s mighty irresistible right now. We can’t really say much more... We’ll sell out too fast and this is our last parcel! 

About the Producer

Paul Avril, born in 1873, was one of the people behind the creation of the Chateauneuf appellation. In 1896 he started Clos des Papes. Regis Avril, born in 1901, delivered wines to two presidents of France General de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou. Paul Avril, born in 1937, started working at the domain in 1963 at first together with his father and later for many years with his son. Paul-Vincent Avril attended wine school in Burgundy and when he went back to the domain in 1988 he had visions about finesse and elegance and he still considers these qualities as most important. Today the family works with 24 parcels totaling 79 acres from multiple soils types and is arguably the very best producer of CdP in the world.