Domaine de la Vieille Julienne VDP d'Orange

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The 2005 VdP d’Orange has an inky/purple color, and that’s not surprising given the fact that it is made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Grenache. A real sleeper of the vintage in 2005 thanks to the warm days, but cool nights, this wine reveals surprising firmness, tannin, and oodles of black currant fruit mixed with licorice and earth. The wine is aged in foudre prior to being bottled with neither fining nor filtration. This estate in the very northern sector of Chateauneuf du Pape celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005, but the extraordinary wines have only really come with the emergence of Jean-Paul Daumen as a seasoned and competent producer, over the last seven to eight years. He is now one of the truly stunning producers in all of France and, somewhat unusual for Chateauneuf du Pape, he doesn’t make any white Chateauneuf du Pape.Importer: A Christopher Cannan Selection, various American importers including Michael Skurnik, Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300 and Diamond Wine Merchants, Oakland, CA; tel. (510) 567-9897