Now that it has been in bottle a while, the 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reservee is looking even better than I projected based on lastyear's prebottling sample. It's all violets, cherries, subtle allspiceand clove and traditional garrigue notes of lavender and thyme.Full-bodied and rich, it's crazy complex, adding hints of tar and blackolives on the long, silky finish. It should evolve beautifully over thenext two decades.
Vivid ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe raspberry, cherry and garrigue, while a suave floral element expands with air. Fleshy,seamless and broad on the palate, offering intense black raspberry andfruitcake flavors that are braced and lifted by a spine of juicyacidity. The floral note builds as the wine opens up and carries throughthe sweet, strikingly long finish, which leaves behind red fruit liqueurand licorice notes.
Die Familie Féraud ist seit 1670 eng mit dem Rebbau in Châteauneuf verbunden. 1964 begann Paul Féraud erstmals, seine Weine selber abzufüllen. Inzwischen ist Pégau längst legendär, und zwar wegen ihrer kompromisslos traditionell gekelterten Châteauneufs, für die auch heute noch die 13 klassischen Rebsorten verwendet werden.
