Châteauneuf du Pape rouge 2020 - Domaine Charvin

Chateauneuf de Pape rouge - Domaine Charvin

Domaine Charvin's Châteauneuf du Pape rouge is a powerful, concentrated and at the same time extremely enjoyable red. It is produced with a prevalence of Grenache grapes combined with smaller percentages of Syrah, Vaccarese and Counoise. The grapes come from vines planted in the 60s on clayey soils. Pressing of whole bunches. Spontaneous fermentation with 17-25 day maceration with daily pumping over. Aging 100% in cement for 21 months. Neither filtration nor clarification. Rest 5 months in the bottle before release. A simply masterful wine that stands out among its peers: soft, full, velvety and deep, it has length, firmness and seriousness.

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 16/18° in a tulip glass. Wine to be drunk immediately but will express its best in a few years. It is recommended to keep it in a horizontal position in a cool, humid and dark cellar.

Pairing

Excellent red wine to combine with first courses, main courses of meat, to try with a stewed duck.

Winery: François Dumas

FChâteauneuf-du-Pape is indisputably among the largest terroirs of the Rhone and France. It is here, and precisely in the lieu-dit Maucoil, in the territory of the municipality of Orange north of the appellation, that the Domaine Charvin was born in the now distant 1851, at the time of the Second Republic, by the hand of Guillaume Charavin (the modification of the family surname was a trivial administrative oversight of the early twentieth century). Today, the 33-hectare company of vineyards is led by Laurent Charvin, who in taking over the estate in the early nineties decided to take the path of organic farming (Écocert certification), eliminating the chemistry in the vineyard. This radical choice finds its ideal compendium in the cellar, with a vinification free from enological additives: no selected yeasts, no enzymes, sulphites managed sparingly. The company remains faithful to the idea of ​​maceration of whole bunches, not de-stemmed, an increasingly crucial solution, in the Châteauneuf of the 21st century, to preserve the expressive freshness of wines. This is how wines of crystalline class, expressive purity and great gustatory impetus are born, an impeccable expression of the terroir.