Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf du Pape, La Crau 2013 Half creamy wine with sweet-oak spice

creamy wine with sweet-oak spice and blackcurrant notes set in a smooth

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the 2011 impresses for its beautiful aromatics and fine overall balance

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cries for red

Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf du Pape, La Crau 2013 Half creamy wine with sweet-oak spiceThis superb Vieux Tlgraphe vintage is the example other southern French winemakers could look to when seeking where to go next. It is a breakthrough wine. Daniel Brunier said concisely what he, his brother Frdric, and I were thinking as we tasted it after the bottling: Truly classic Vieux Tlgraphe, deep and powerful as usual, yet showing great finesse and class, almost an ethereal quality. The bouquet is as lovely an expression of the stony plateau of