Domaine Gramenon Vinsobres La Papesse 2024
Domaine Gramenon Vinsobres La Papesse 2024
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2023: 96 pts Decanter
Barrel sample, so a provisional score. Darker and straighter in aroma than La Sagesse, with more liquorice fruit. Powerful and full-bodied but not massive. The tannins are very silky but they have extraordinary grip. This has huge depth and concentration, with a long finish. It's a dark wine, deep and mysterious. There's a saline edge to the finish, with very fresh tannins. Grapes are lightly crushed, followed by 15-20 days fermentation, only pumpovers, no punching down, with temperatures controlled; maturation in demi-muids and some concrete eggs for one year. Vinsobres terroir, 50- to 70-year-old vines. All whole bunches. Clay limestone soils with some galets roulés. To be revisited in bottle before any definitive conclusions can be made on the final wine.
2023: **** JLL
(casks, bottling Sept 2024) quite full red; the nose has a curvy air of blackberry fruit, with life in it, a hint of dried flowers, pot-pourri. The palate is thickly juiced on attack, digs in along the palate, shows vintage conditions, is very sealed, almost robust. The tannins fit in, are dense. This is waiting, very full wine. From late-2025, not earlier. 2035-37 Feb 2024
90-100% Grenache (1930s) from a plot next to Les Laurentides on white galet stone covered clay-limestone soils at 350-400 metres, from 2020 10% Syrah “to bring a bit of finesse, to calm the Grenache that can be a bit violent, high degree”, whole bunch fermentation in an open wood vat, 2-3 week vinification, daily pumping overs, can do cap punchings, sometimes 1 x part vat emptying/refilling at end (2023), aged 75% 5-10 year 600-litre oak casks, 25% 12 hl jars 8-10 months (jars since late 2010s), unfined, unfiltered, 4,500 b
Barrel sample, so a provisional score. Darker and straighter in aroma than La Sagesse, with more liquorice fruit. Powerful and full-bodied but not massive. The tannins are very silky but they have extraordinary grip. This has huge depth and concentration, with a long finish. It's a dark wine, deep and mysterious. There's a saline edge to the finish, with very fresh tannins. Grapes are lightly crushed, followed by 15-20 days fermentation, only pumpovers, no punching down, with temperatures controlled; maturation in demi-muids and some concrete eggs for one year. Vinsobres terroir, 50- to 70-year-old vines. All whole bunches. Clay limestone soils with some galets roulés. To be revisited in bottle before any definitive conclusions can be made on the final wine.
2023: **** JLL
(casks, bottling Sept 2024) quite full red; the nose has a curvy air of blackberry fruit, with life in it, a hint of dried flowers, pot-pourri. The palate is thickly juiced on attack, digs in along the palate, shows vintage conditions, is very sealed, almost robust. The tannins fit in, are dense. This is waiting, very full wine. From late-2025, not earlier. 2035-37 Feb 2024
90-100% Grenache (1930s) from a plot next to Les Laurentides on white galet stone covered clay-limestone soils at 350-400 metres, from 2020 10% Syrah “to bring a bit of finesse, to calm the Grenache that can be a bit violent, high degree”, whole bunch fermentation in an open wood vat, 2-3 week vinification, daily pumping overs, can do cap punchings, sometimes 1 x part vat emptying/refilling at end (2023), aged 75% 5-10 year 600-litre oak casks, 25% 12 hl jars 8-10 months (jars since late 2010s), unfined, unfiltered, 4,500 b
