Description

Domaine de la Solitude
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
“Cuvée Barberini” Rouge

 

Cuvée Barberini Red – It is a tribute to our ancestors the Barberini Family, produced when the vintage allows it from a special selection from our domaine, well known for its concentration and its opulence. The modern winemaking style, with optimization of the extraction but without excess, gives a powerful wine with silky tannins. Depending on the vintage, a part more or less is aged 16 months in barrels, and then when the blending is made, is going to spend 6 months in tanks for a perfect integration. Impressive wine, with a significant purity and density, can best be served for tasting between 4 and 15 years at least after the vintage year.

Blend: (V’24)

The grenaches come from old vines planted on the high Quaternary alluvial terraces surrounding the estate. These famous soils of pebbles of quartzites and clays, they give the Cuvée Barberini a great tannic and aromatic power.

• • 65% Grenache noir 
  • 25% Syrah
  • 10% Mourvèdre

Vineyards:

• Yield: 30 hl/ha
• Agricultural: Sustainable

Winemaking and aging:

• • Harvesting is done by hand in 25 kg crates.
  • After a double selection of the best bunches in the vineyard then on a sorting table, the grapes are crushed and partially destemmed.
  • They are vinified by gravity in concrete vats.
  • Long macerations with gentle extractions provide these tannins both powerful and velvetines.
  • This vintage is aged for 65% in barrels and half barrels for 20 months and 40% in concrete vats.
    
  • The wine is bottled without filtration or fining.

Food and wine pairing:

• • This wine still in its youth is best with red meat like a beautiful rib of beef but also, for instance, an apricot tagine of lamb, duck breast with cherries, then after about ten years a hare “à la royale”

Tasting Note:

• • A powerful nose, which mixes aromas of tobacco, violet, milk caramel.
  • A velvety mouth with aromas of licorice and morello cherry, with a lingering chocolate finish.

Recommendations:

• • To be consumed within 3 to 20 years after the vintage.
  • Service temperature: 60-63 ° F.

 

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