I was tasting wines at another Chicago locals spot tonight and we opened a bottle of 2005 Domaine du Caillou Chateauneuf du Pape. Holy Cow! It is dellllllicious! The Vacheron family and winemaker Bruno Gaspard have some amazing vineyards and it really speaks true with this wine. I can’t believe that this wine is almost all grenache (99%). It was a silky smoothness that I don’t normally find in pure grenache ( not the normal dusty tannins and juvenile grip). Perhaps it has to do with the 100+ year old vines, or the modern wine making technique. Tasting this wine tonight shows the clean, pure and vibrant texture of brilliant CNDP. It is darker in aroma than the last time I was fortunate to taste it, with more country side floral aromas and blackberry than raspberry tones. The small amount of bottle age is treating the wine extremely well. Excellent finish and garrigue like terroir. I only wished that we’d had some duck or rabbit to go with it. Well, even if the dollar is slumping against the Euro, the price of oil continues to rise, and the value of my house is going steadily down, at least I know that there is still breathtaking wine out there.
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