Barroche, Chateauneuf Du Pape Size:12x750ml nicely integrated oak

nicely integrated oak

leaf and green olive

The 2014 Pavillon Blanc de Château Margaux is just a bit anonymous on the nose

offering intense blueberry

Otherwise there is both lovely freshness and verve to the much larger-scaled flavors that are at once rich and tautly muscular

Barroche, Chateauneuf Du Pape Size:12x750ml nicely integrated oakVivid ruby. Strikingly complex, expansive aromas of raspberry and blackberry, garrigue and brown spices. Open knit red fruit flavors are concentrated but in no way heavy, with a bracing mineral quality adding spine. The finish is sweet, broad and very persistent. This cuvee was previously called "Reserve." Josh Raynolds