Domaine Roquète Rouge 2007
SOMMELIER INTERNATIONAL – AOÛT 2010
Nez : plaisant mêlant des arômes explosifs de petits fruits noirs et rouges (cassis, cerise) des notes gourmandes de confiture.
Bouche : attaque ample, une bouche généreuse et moelleuse équilibrée par une belle acidité. Finale dotée de tanins denses, serrés et fermes.
Accords mets et vins : selle de chevreuil aux betteraves.
commentaires : un festival de fruits et de fraîcheur. Merveilleux !!!
INTERNATIONAL WINE CELLAR – #148 – JAN/FEB 2010
Ruby-red. Pungent aromas of blackberry preserves and plum, with licorice and tobacco notes adding complexity. Showing a more serious personality than it did from barrel, offering weighty dark fruit flavors and a velvety texture. Tannins build with air and add grip to the long, smoky finish. This is acting like a 2005 right now. 91
WINE ADVOCATE – OCT 2009 – ROBERT PARKER
rating 93 – The finest tradition cuvee yet made, the 2007 Chateauneuf du Pape (70% Grenache, 20% Syrah, and 10% Mourvedre aged in foudre and concrete tanks) possesses a deep ruby/purple-tinged color as well as a bouquet of black currants, black cherries, garrigue, pepper, and lavender. It is a full-bodied, ripe, exceptionally elegant, pure wine to drink now or cellar for 12-15 years. Shrewd connoisseurs of Chateauneuf du Pape should be paying attention to what is taking place at La Roquete. This property was acquired by the Brunier family (who also own Vieux Telegraphe) in the mid-eighties, and over the last 4-5 years they have made successful efforts to upgrade the quality dramatically.
GUIDE BETTANE ET DESSEAUVE 2010
14/20. Le vin est coloré, avec des arômes de quetsche prononcés ; ouvert en bouche, il séduit par sa chair ample mais souple, ses tanins déjà fondus.
WINE SPECTATOR INSIDER
14 OCT 2009 – JAMES MOLESWORTH – 92 POINTS | $40 | 7,500 CASES MADE – This has gorgeously silky mouthfeel, with layers of blackberry, black cherry and dark plum fruit seamlessly woven with black tea and perfumy pepper and spice notes. The long finish lets the fruit and minerality drip. Grenache and Mourvèdre. Drink now through 2020.—J.M.
IWC – JAN-FEV 2009 – JOSH REYNOLDS
90-93 Deep ruby. Very ripe, exotic aromas of boysenberry, kirsch, olive, garrigue and anise. Broad, fleshy and sweet, offering weighty dark berry compote and spice flavors and gentle tannins. This sexy, velvety wine will drink well young but the concentration to age
RVF – JUIN 2008
15.5 / 17.5 – tous les deux sont vinifiés par la famille Brunier. En cours d’élevage, le domaine de la Roquète se déguste mieux que le domaine du Vieux Télégraphe. Si le premier brille par son soyeux et des tanins précis, le Vieux Télégraphe fait ressortir la puissance de La Crau par un fruit très mûr donnant un côté vin doux naturel et un volume impressionnant en bouche.
WINE ADVOCATE –30 OCT 2008 – N°179 – ROBERT PARKER
(90-93) – it boasts beautiful density and purity as well as stunning aromatics and a full-bodied, multi-textured style. The freshness and vibrancy achieved because of the cool, exceptionnally dry growing season is well displayed in the beautiful, almost Burgundian-like perfume, but the wine possesses the strength, power and substance of a southern Rhône. Drink it over the next 15 years.
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