Return to Previously Sold listings
A great vintage in the southern Rhone and a very rare bottling of this wine. Made only in superb vintages (including 89, 90, 94, 95, 98, 99, 00, 03, 04, 05, 07) when the Mourvedre is able to get ripe enough (>13.5% abv) to deliver requisite concentration and form the dominant variety in the blend (60% in 2001 with 20% Grenache, 10% Syrah and 10% Counoise).
A wine of legendary concentration, extraordinary length and complexity - red & black fruits, spices, garrigue, game, leather and smoke. The 2007 I drank last year - it was prodigious and unctuous and one of the most lavishly textural wines I've ever had. 2001 is a finer expression, Jancis noting in 2011 that it was 'Crimson. Very rich and reverberant with lots of sweet ripeness. But some delicacy too. Very long – really builds on the palate. Almost fragile. Still extremely youthful!'
Loved by Robert Parker in its youth (99+ in 2004) and Wine Spectator more recently (95 in 2013), where critic James Molesworth noted that the 2001 'was racy, very fresh, driven vintage that's hitting its straps right now', while co-owner Marc Perrin noted that '2001 was the first of a new generation of vintages...it marked the beginning of a new era thanks to longer, warmer Indian summers.'
A fascinating wine for its place in the history of Chateauneuf du Pape, made in a time when the style of wines were transitioning from the rustic, traditional styles of the 90s to the flashier more seductive wines of the 2000s.
A wine for hedonists with a proven track record of ageing.
Production is tiny averaging around 4,000 bottles when the vintage allows.
The wine is duty paid and has been carefully stored in a Eurocave since it was purchased from the importer in 2013.
Menu
Have a similar item to sell?
Start now
United Kingdom 
