Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale Vintage:2007 and the Chinese have seemingly

and the Chinese have seemingly fallen in love in Cabernet

with a streamlined shape on the palate and a long

A wonderfully expressive and broad-ranging nose offers up notes of plums

this comes across as aromatically fresh yet the mid-palate has a borderline surmature character to it

showing tons of intensity

Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale Vintage:2007 and the Chinese have seemingly(100% grenache from La Crau) Opaque ruby. Highly perfumed bouquet of red and dark berry preserves, flowers, fruit pit and sassafras. Sweet, palate staining black raspberry and mulberry flavors are framed by velvety tannins and become spicier and more energetic on the back end. Big and gripping but surprisingly graceful wine with very good finishing lift and precision. This saw no new oak. Josh Raynolds