2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge Barbe Rac, Chapoutier (6 x Bottle)
The 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape Barbe Rac is brilliant and up there with some of the finest vintages to date of this cuvée. Based all on Grenache from a single lieu-dit in the southwest of the appellation called the Barbe d'Asne and brought up in concrete tanks, it offers up a gorgeous nose of kirsch liqueur, ground pepper, garrigue, and graphite. Deep, rich, and powerful on the palate, with tons of sweet fruit, it needs 4-5 years of bottle age and will keep for two decades or more.
2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge Barbe Rac, Chapoutier (6 x Bottle)
The 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape Barbe Rac is brilliant and up there with some of the finest vintages to date of this cuvée. Based all on Grenache from a single lieu-dit in the southwest of the appellation called the Barbe d'Asne and brought up in concrete tanks, it offers up a gorgeous nose of kirsch liqueur, ground pepper, garrigue, and graphite. Deep, rich, and powerful on the palate, with tons of sweet fruit, it needs 4-5 years of bottle age and will keep for two decades or more.
| Producer | Chapoutier |
|---|---|
| Sub-Region | South Rhone |
| Region | Rhone |
| Country | France |
| Grape Variety | Grenache Blend |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Colour | Red |
| ABV | 15.00% |
| Style | Full , Dry , Powerful |
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Robert Parker Wine Advocate
Exceptionally low yields in the 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Barbe Rac contribute to this wine’s almost black hue. It’s crazy-concentrated, full-bodied and rich but boasts incredible floral aromas of roses and violets, ripe cherry and stone fruit flavors and exotic spice notes. This looks really special.
96-98 Points / Drinking 2022 - 2040
By Joe Czerwinski / August 2018
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
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.
96 Points / Drinking 2024 - 2040
By Joe Czerwinski / August 2019
Vinous
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.
94-95 Points
By Josh Raynolds / December 2019