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Parker 99 points: The just released 1989 Cuvee des Celestins is an extraordinary Chateauneuf du Pape, with a degree of richness and dimension of flavor that are hard to achieve. The color is opaque black/plum-like and the backward, unevolved nose offers exciting scents of Provencal herbs, black olives, truffle-scented cassis, smoke, and minerals. In the mouth, this mammoth wine reveals phenomenal extraction of flavor, huge body, and massive le...
The massive and powerful Réserve des Celestins is generally sourced from Bonneau's vines in La Crau, whose boulder-strewn plateau produces Châteauneuf's ripest fruit. Cuvée Marie Beurrier, Bonneau's more elegant wine, usually comes from clay, limestone and sandy soils.
Blackcurrant, Licorice, Truffles, Pepper, Vanilla and Cigar-box
nose
Wide, Fresh, Opulent and Ripe
recommend
Yes
taste
High in Acidity, Medium tannin, Balanced, Well-structured, Well-Integrated, Full-bodied, Rich, Vigor and Perfumed
Veridict
Intelligent and Outstanding
Written Notes
This was possibly, the greatest, by a hair, of these great wines on this evening. The nose transfixes you immediately, ripe black and red cherries, kirsch, garrigue and spices. The wine is palate dominating almost, with a riot of herbs, pepper, liqueur notes, and tannins that have been completely socialized while contributing great structure to this monument to wine-making. Meat and game, earth and dark fruit and figs, truffles and spices and porcini, all maintaining perfect balance like planets in orbit, this comes across majestically as a complete wine. As the long and complete finish continues to lap away at your palate, the sheer hedonism and class almost belies comparisons with virtually any other wine…a staggering, seminal experience. 100 Points
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