Description

Domaine de la Solitude
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge

Blend: (2022 Vintage)

Historical Cuvée from the Domaine produced since the XVII century, from all our vineyards on safres and Gallets roullés. A blend of terroir and grape varieties of excellence it contains the 8 reds grapes varieties of A.O.C. and even some white or pink grape in small proportion.

• • 65% Grenache noir

  • 20% Syrah

  • 5% Cinsault

  • 5% Mourvèdre

  • 5% Counoise

  • Produit issu de l’agriculture biologique FR-BIO-01

Yield:

• • 32 hl/hectare.

Harvest:

• • Hand picking.

Vinification and aging:

• • The grapes are hand-picked. 
  • After a selection of the best bunches by hand on a sorting table, the grapes are crushed and destemmed and fall by gravity in our concrete tanks.
  • Long maceration with gentle extractions allow to obtain velvetine yet powerful tannins, which are specific to our wines.
  • 10 % of the wine is then aged in oak barrels and demi-muids for 15 month, 90% in concrete vats.

 

Tasting note:

• • Nose, garrigue bouquet, cistus flower, blackcurrant buds, all fresh and balanced on the palate, with aromas of cocoa and cherry, with a long finish of liquorice.

Food and Wine pairing:

• • In its youth, this vintage is perfect to pair with a shoulder of lamb slow roasted in oven, roast pigeon with porcini mushroom, and from its fifth year, stew, Daube Provencal, all game and many cheeses.
  • Storage: Drink now through 2030
  • Serving temperature: 60 to 62 F°.

 

 

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