2007 Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rhône France Wine Tasting Note

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Black pepper, plum and cherry notes lead to ripe, sweet black raspberries and soft textures. This peppery, fresh, stylish wine is completely open and drinking great today.

Black pepper, plum and cherry notes lead to ripe, sweet black raspberries and soft textures. This peppery, fresh, stylish wine is completely open and drinking great today.

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Still showing good color, the perfume offers plums, black cherry, black raspberry, spice, earth, garrigue and jammy blackberries. Fresh and packed with lush, pure, ripe, jammy red berries, this luscious Chateauneuf du Pape is open for prime time drinking, where it should remain for several years.

Still showing good color, the perfume offers plums, black cherry, black raspberry, spice, earth, garrigue and jammy blackberries. Fresh and packed with lush, pure, ripe, jammy red berries, this luscious Chateauneuf du Pape is open for prime time drinking, where it should remain for several years.

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When to Drink Vieille Julienne, Anticipated Maturity, Decanting Time

Vieille Julienne is a wine that is much better wine some age. Young vintages can be decanted for about 1 -3 hours, give or take. This allows the wine to soften and open its perfume. Older vintages might need very little decanting, just enough to remove the sediment.

Vieille Julienne is usually better with 4-7 years of bottle age. Of course, that can vary slightly, depending on the vintage. In the best vintages, the wine should be consumed within 5-25 years after the vintage.

Serving Domaine de la Vieille Julienne with Wine, Food Pairing Tips

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift.

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, stewed dishes, barbecue, sausage, and cassoulet. Domaine de la Vieille Julienne is also good with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms pasta, eggplant, tomatoes, and cheese.

In 2005, Vieille Julienne produced a special, one-off bottling to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Domaine. The wine, produced from their oldest Grenache vines in Cotes du Rhone appellation was produced from insanely low yields of only 10 hectoliters per hectare! This is probably the best wine from any producer ever made in the Cotes du Rhone. Good luck finding any as the production was close to a whopping 300 cases.

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne also makes very strong red and white wine in the Cotes du Rhone appellation from 15 hectares of vines they own in the appellation.

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