France

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Very deeply coloured, with powerful, strict tannins, deeply mineral. At 10 years, it’s starting to show its potential. I enjoyed it, but this will be spectacular in another 10 years. It’s showing beef blood, iodine, truffle and hung game, but its development has only just started. Mint, graphite and blackcurrant too. It’s only medium-bodied, but so saline and mineral, full of energy and tension. Very fine but very tight tannins for now.  A great wine in the making. Elemental and electric, with none of the overextraction, thickness or sweetness that can mar some Châteauneuf. Good now; better from 2026.

Grenache / Garnacha

Rotem & Mounir Saouma, Arioso, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône, France, 2010

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Very deeply coloured, with powerful, strict tannins, deeply mineral. At 10 years, it’s starting to show its potential. I enjoyed

Rotem & Mounir Saouma, Arioso, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône, 2010

75cl

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Rotem & Mounir Saouma

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Rotem & Mounir Saouma, Arioso, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, 2010

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Rotem & Mounir Saouma, Arioso, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône, 2010

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