Domaine du Pegau, Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reservee, 2015 CS20230806 all power and perfume and

all power and perfume and patience

Bzikot ferments and ages in small French oak barrels for twelve months with twenty percent new wood

and that warm

Crushed red fruits blend with leather

The palate is silky yet structured

Domaine du Pegau, Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reservee, 2015 CS20230806 all power and perfume andThere is no wine in the world quite like Pegau, and this is the plush, hedonistic side of it. While much of Chteauneuf du Pape modernized destemming, polishing tannins, buying new oak Laurence Fraud refuses to change a thing: late harvest, whole clusters left in the vat, and aging in ancient neutral foudres that have seen decades of wine. The 2015 vintage came from a warm, sunny year, and it shows in the wine's flesh: this is the richer, rounder, more