Comments on: Châteauneuf du Pape “Cuvee des Remperts” Louis Montellier 2006

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Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:56:47 +0000

[...] to misspell. Apart from that what’s more interesting is that it’s just up the road from Châteauneuf du Pape in the southern Rhône, but a lot cheaper for the most [...]

By: barry

barry — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:06:26 +0000

I live in the Luberon, the local stuff is very mixed but there are a few newbies doing ‘bio’ i.e. no chemicals. There is one, Chateaux de la Canorgue, which is good and getting better and another Ch de la Verrerie which is good but getting pricy because they are getting mentions….. One other Les Vadons, here in the village made it to Gault-M a year or two back…
I once found a local one in an offlicense in Clonskeagh!! Ch Val Joannis, which is owned by a French pop singer or someone, heavy marketing but pricy.

Rose is the preferred tipple in Provence, the weather is just fine for that. Lots of good ones…. Also some nice whites. Nothing millesime like of course, but who wants to pay those kinds of prices??

On the Chateauneuf story, as I said it good to lay down and there are plenty of small houses. Well worth a trip.

There is a place run by two Irish guys, Domain des Anges in the Ventoux, a little light for my liking.

Bye, Barry

By: Lar

Lar — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:16:57 +0000

Hi Barry,

thanks for dropping by. Whats’ your tipple around those parts?

Lar

By: barry

barry — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:28:00 +0000

Hi, living a few kms down the road also I’d agree with you about Gig and Vaq. Chateauneuf has been clever with their marketing and consequently have been able to budge up their prices. The consequence has been that the good and the bad are not distinguished. Here in France they would always be considered as good for laying down, in the good years, even if the prices are a bit high.
Gig and Vaq are much more ‘ordinary’ in the French consciousness so they don’t tend to be as pricy.

Bye, Barry