Jean Marie Royer, Chateauneuf Du Pape Sables Crau other_regions This wine has both elegance

This wine has both elegance and finesse

This will need plenty more time in bottle to show its best

which fermented in open wooden vats for 10-12 days and aged in French oak barrel for 14 months

It seems to be developing faster than the older white grands vins

Shown to contrast with the 1963 vintage

Jean Marie Royer, Chateauneuf Du Pape Sables Crau other_regions This wine has both eleganceRipe aromas of blackberry jam, violets, liquorice and strawberry. Some overripe, confit berries, and dried blackcurrant notes. A wine you want to sink your teeth into. Very full bodied, powerful, with sharp acidity. It's concentrated, with dense fruit and muscular, chewy tannins. Crucially though it has a sense of freshness; the alcohol is warming but not hot or spirity. Salinity helps to bring further freshness. When many people feel like drinking