TN: 1999 Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée

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1999 Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée - France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (4/25/2017)
Everything you could want in a properly aged Chateauneuf du Pape is in this wine. Old leather, rosemary, turned earth and the classic kirsch aroma all dance and swirl to create a clear sign of Pegau. There’s still notable tannin, so no rush, but what a wonderful bottle of wine!

Note: original release.

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For a variety of reasons, a real favorite vintage.

All gone though

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Still one more original release left. A few 2nd release as well.

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Definitely one of the best mature Pegau-vintages available … and a sign for the longivity of these wines … 2000+2001 are more concentrated and structured, but even the 1999 can go easily another 10+ years (when well cellared).

It is however a vintage with often a noticable amount of brett, usually (in Europe !?) of a low level that (IMHO) adds to the complexity and typicity … but I had also ONE almost undrinkable example - not from my cellar … something must have happened to this bottle on it´s way to the table …

I cannot argue about bottles somewhere else (overseas …) where the brett often seems to be too much … [shrug.gif]

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This bottle had a touch of brett (old leather…maybe even sweaty old leather), but as you say, it added to the complexity.

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Right - totally in accordance with most other bottles I know …
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We had a '99 Clos des Papes over the weekend and if I’d written a note it would have been virtually interchangeable with this one on the Pegau. I no longer enjoy CdP very much, but this one was objectively excellent, as it sounds like the Pegau was. '99s are doing beautifully, it seems.

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99 has always been one of my favorite Pegaus. Never hasn’t tasted great. Alas I also only have a couple of bottles left out of a case and a half, I think. Years ago I traded 6 bottles of the 95 for 9 bottles of the 99 with Dan Kravitz and have never regretted it.