1998 Châteauneuf-du-Pape again
23 Sep 2005 by JR
Steve Dutton, Germany: Via your recently-supplied link in the article on Jaboulet , I discovered your notes on the 1998 CNPs, and at first read them with mounting dismay, as I have quite a few of them in my collection. But then I consulted some of my tasting notes, and hope that your speculation that perhaps they were "closed" is correct. Since purchasing them in 2000/2001, I have not tried any of the "big guns", but have been going through quite a lot of the "second tier" (I know, slightly mixed metaphors!) wines and, based on those wines, hope that the relatively poor showing of the major CNPs is due to their currently being...

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