Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 Textbook Clos des Ormes

Textbook Clos des Ormes

pineapple and apricot in the finish

A more intensely floral-suffused nose reflects an interesting note of pepper on the pretty red currant

but it is swathed in copious tobacco-drenched black fruit and a superb line of acidity

There is excellent volume and energy to the big-bodied

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 Textbook Clos des OrmesI loved the two 2005s from Clos du Caillou and this team knocked it out of the park in this vintage. The 2005 Chteauneuf du Pape les Safres is still inky colored, with fabulous aromas and flavors of sweet blackberries, currants, toasted spice, camphor and licorice. Full bodied, ripe and layered, with sweet tannin, this is a borderline fruit bomb that dishes out loads of pleasure. Much more open and exuberant than when I tasted it earlier this year, it