Chapoutier Chateauneuf-du-Pape Barbe Rac 2017 (6x75cl)
The 2017 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Barbe Rac is a rock star in the vintage. Just screaming Grenache (it's 100% Grenache) with its decadent black raspberries, kirsch, garrigue, flowers, and exotic spice, it hits the palate with a full-bodied yet weightless texture, terrific mid-palate depth, and building structure. It’s a small step back from the 2016 yet is still a sensational Grenache that’s going to check in near the top of the vintage.
Produced from yields of just 15 hectoliters per hectare, the 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Barbe Rac is a powerful, 100% Grenache wine raised in concrete. It's a big, full-bodied beauty, loaded with scents of kirsch and framboise, stuffed with ripe tannins and with a finish that lasts for several minutes. Give it 5 years in the cellar and drink it over the next decade or so.
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2040
Reviewer Name: Joe Czerwinski
Review Date: 30th August 2019
Full bright-hued ruby. Highly perfumed, expansive aromas of ripe red berries, candied cherry exotic spices and lavender pick up a smoky mineral note as the wine opens up. Chewy and focused on the palate, offering concentrated black raspberry, bitter cherry and floral pastille flavors that show a suave interplay of richness and vivacity. Turns sweeter on the impressively long, penetrating finish, which features steadily building tannins and insistent cherry, lavender and spice qualities. All concrete.
Reviewer Name: Josh Raynolds
Review Date: 19th December 2019