Château Mont-Redon Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Served from magnum and delivered directly from the cellars at Mont-Redon. Color still strong and dark red. Palate is soft, medium bodied and tannins totally resolved. Very delicious and refined. Still beautiful soft red fruit, some licorice and forest floor. Great!

OC Poker VIII; 11/6/2010-11/8/2010 (WCC - Irvine CA) : Blind c:Burnt red brick n: indian spice and touch of fruit/cherry p: earth, brush, and very little tannis f: medium Interesting wine, first old CdP and while not my style a pleasure to experience.

OCP4W VIII (WCC in Irvine, CA) : -- tasted a single glass blind over 15 minutes -- NOSE: kirsch; smells a bit aged; leathery spice. BODY: garnet color with a bricking throughout and at the edges; medium-light bodied TASTE: smoky; alcohol pokes through a bit; hint of pepper; some kirsch; nice, but seems to lack structure; good acid; no tannins.

OC Poker For Wine VIII: Grenache Blind (Wine Cellar Club, Irvine, CA) : Served Blind. Clearly very aged in character though not done. Some pepper on a very light in character palate that had nice acidity. This would have been better served with a meal at this point and was probably best 10 years ago or more but it still had some appeal for me. It is about twice as old as I would have guessed.