2020 | Le Vieux Donjon | Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc

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White Wine: 2020 | Le Vieux Donjon | Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc

This Chteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Vieux Donjon appears lively and juicy, offering aromas of apple blossom and citrus, also alternated by notes of spice and minerality.

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Producer: Le Vieux Donjon

Ratings: JD | 91 WS | 93

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Rhone Blend

Country/Region: France, Rhone

This Chteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Vieux Donjon appears lively and juicy, offering aromas of apple blossom and citrus, also alternated by notes of spice and minerality. On the palate, the attack is invigorating, citrus notes and a slightly “pastry” side due to Roussanne emerges little by little, without any heaviness.

Reviews:

• Jeb Dunnuck: The 2020 Chteauneuf Du Pape Blanc is juicy and lively, with pretty apple blossom and citrus fruit as well as hints of spice and minerality. It’s medium-bodied, juicy, and ready to go, yet should also have 4-5 years of longevity it you’re so inclined.

• Wine Spectator: Very bright and pure in style, offering a mix of lemon curd, white peach, mirabelle plum and honeysuckle flavors that race along, with quinine and acacia notes gilding the finish. Drink now.

Producer Information

Le Vieux Donjon, as it exists today, was created in 1979 with the marriage of Lucien and Marie Jos Michel. Both Lucien and Marie Jos’s parents owned vineyards in the region, and those holding were combined to form Le Vieux Donjon. The domaine covers fourteen hectares of vineyards (all farmed organically), thirteen planted to red grapes and one planted to white. The Michel’s holdings are primarily in the North and Northwest of the AOC, but they also have small plots in the Southwest and East. Their most important parcel is Pialons, and the grapes from the 2008 come from that parcel as well as those in Cabrieres, Bois de Boursan, Les Marines and Le Mourre de Gaude. The soils are mainly limestone and clay, and are studded with the famed galets roul, the round, rust-colored stones which were left behind after the retreat of the Alpine glaciers which once covered the region.