Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Size:12x750ml something that one doesn’t see

something that one doesn’t see often

impressive in terms of fruit intensity

This will need to add depth to achieve the upper end of my predicted range

earth and a hint of tobacco

with dashes of lemon oil on crushed blue slate rocks

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Size:12x750ml something that one doesn’t seeI loved the two 2005s from Clos du Caillou and this team knocked it out of the park in this vintage. The 2005 Chteauneuf du Pape les Safres is still inky colored, with fabulous aromas and flavors of sweet blackberries, currants, toasted spice, camphor and licorice. Full bodied, ripe and layered, with sweet tannin, this is a borderline fruit bomb that dishes out loads of pleasure. Much more open and exuberant than when I tasted it earlier this year, it