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The January 2024 Auction: Part 2
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Estimate: $130
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"With only 1,500 bottles produced, the 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape les Larmes Papales will be tough to find. From 100-year-old Grenache grown on La Crau (Ouest), vinified partly in demi-muids and aged entirely in them, it offers up intriguing scents of hickory smoke, cherries and red raspberries. There's more concentration here than in Benedetti's regular cuvée, plus complex oak notes and more tannins, yet this wine doesn't lose the essential elegance that is the hallmark of the vintage here. Lovely stuff."
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"With only 1,500 bottles produced, the 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape les Larmes Papales will be tough to find. From 100-year-old Grenache grown on La Crau (Ouest), vinified partly in demi-muids and aged entirely in them, it offers up intriguing scents of hickory smoke, cherries and red raspberries. There's more concentration here than in Benedetti's regular cuvée, plus complex oak notes and more tannins, yet this wine doesn't lose the essential elegance that is the hallmark of the vintage here. Lovely stuff."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Spans the Syrah-driven northern crus of Cote-Rotie and Hermitage and the Grenache-based blends of the warmer south, led by Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Its wines are known for power, spice and warmth.
The southern Rhone's most famous appellation, blending Grenache with Syrah, Mourvedre and more into rich, warming, spice-laden reds from galet-strewn soils.
A warm-climate red giving generous, high-alcohol wines of red fruit and spice. It anchors southern Rhone blends and old-vine wines in Spain and Australia.