Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC - Cuvée du Vatican

The Châteauneuf-du-Pape penned by Cuvée du Vatican from the Southern Rhône Valley shows a dense, purple color in the wine glass. When swirling the wine glass, this red wine reveals a high viscosity, evident in strong church windows at the rim of the glass. Ideally poured into a Bordeaux glass, this Old World red wine offers wonderfully expressive aromas of blackberry, black currant, black cherry and blueberry, rounded out by oriental spices, cocoa bean and gingerbread spice contributed by aging in wooden barrels.

This French wine delights with its elegantly dry flavor. It was bottled with exceptionally little residual sugar. This is a real quality wine, which clearly stands out from simpler qualities and so this Frenchman enchants naturally with all dryness with the finest balance. Excellent taste does not necessarily need sugar. This velvety and dense red wine presents itself on the palate full of pressure and complexity. In the finish, this well storable red wine from the wine-growing region of the Southern Rhône Valley finally inspires with considerable length. Again, hints of black currant and blackberry show. In the aftertaste, mineral notes of the soils dominated by clay and limestone are added.

Vinification of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Cuvée du Vatican

The basis for Cuvée du Vatican's premium and wonderfully powerful Châteauneuf-du-Pape is Garnacha, Mourvèdre and Syrah grapes. In the Southern Rhône Valley, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of clay, sand, limestone and clay. Of course, the Châteauneuf-du-Pape is also determined by climate and viticultural style Châteauneuf-du-Pape. This French can literally be called an Old World wine, which presents itself exceptionally impressive. Once the perfect physiological ripeness is ensured, the grapes for Châteauneuf-du-Pape are harvested exclusively by hand without the help of coarse and less selective full harvesters. After the hand harvest, the grapes are quickly taken to the press house. Here they are selected and carefully crushed. Fermentation follows in stainless steel tanks and small wood at controlled temperatures. Fermentation is followed by aging for several months on the fine lees before the wine is finally bottled.

Food recommendation for the Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Cuvée du Vatican

Experience this red wine from France ideally tempered at 15 - 18 ° C as a companion to veal boiled beef with beans and tomatoes, vegetable stew with pesto or cabbage roulades.

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