DOMAINE SANTA DUC - 'Le Pied de Baud' Châteauneuf-du-Pape - 2019 - $115.52

Product code

845008

Format

6 x 750ml

Listing type

Open

Status

Available

Type of product

Still wine

Country

France

Regulated designation

Appellation origine controlée (AOC)

Region

Rhône Valley

Subregion

Southern Rhône

Appellation

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Varietal(s)

Grenache

Mourvèdre

Cinsault

Colour

Red

Sugar

Dry

Closure type

Cork

Producer's website

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About this winery

Domaine Santa Duc was founded in Gigondas 1874 and is now led by 6th generation owner and winemaker, Benjamin Gras. After Benjamin received his diploma of oenology at the University of Bourgogne he spent time at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Bodega Vega-Sicilia learning from some of the wine world's most famous estates. The goal at Santa Duc has always been to produce top-quality fruit from impeccably tended vineyard sites, the style of winemaking has changed with each generation....

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Press reviews

- 94 points -

November 2021 (Vintage 2019)

The 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Le Pied De Baud offers a deeper purple/ruby hue as well as a ripe, more up-front bouquet of red and blue fruits, ground pepper, violets, and more minerality, which comes through more on the palate. Rich, medium to full-bodied, and structured, give bottles a few years and enjoy over the following decade or more. This cuvée comes from the pebbly soils of the Pied de Baud lieu-dit, was partially destemmed, and is 80% Grenache and 10% each of Cinsault and Mourvèdre.

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- 93 points -

February 2022 (Vintage 2019)

Nicely expressive, with an open and inviting array of warmed raspberry and plum reduction notes, while red tea, anise and fruitcake hints fill in the background. Stays silky in feel, with just a twinge of bramble for a nice textural contrast, ending with an encore of friendly fruit. Grenache, Mourvèdre and Cinsault. Drink now through 2036. 366 cases made, 19 cases imported.

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