2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Prestige, Roger Sabon, Rhône

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Ready - mature
Product: 20098024253
2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Prestige, Roger Sabon, Rhône

Description

Rhône 2009 - Berrys Recommends
Another impressive effort from this fast rising estate. The 2009 Cuvee Prestige is dense and full of dark fruit, lavender and savoury spice. One for the long term with an excellent future.
(Chris Pollington, BBR Fine Wine)


Grenache is joined in this outstanding cuvée by Syrah, Mourvèdre, and the less well-known Vaccarèse and Counoise. This is the best Prestige that we have encountered at this age, its dark beguiling fruit perfectly allied to notes of licorice, Provençal herbs and hints of autumnal leaves.

Jean-Jacques Sabon and his loquacious winemaker son-in-law Didier Negron farm seventeen hectares of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Their thirteen parcels yield four impressively diverse cuvées of which Le Secret is recognised as one of the greatest wines in the whole appellation. The house philosophy is built upon a regime of lengthy macerations allied to gentle extractions of fruit. Didier, rather unusually, compares 2009 with 2006, but underlines that the current vintage has more power and ageing potential.
(Simon Field MW BBR Buyer)
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2009
Maturity Ready - mature
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine Roger Sabon

About this wine

Domaine Roger Sabon

Roger Sabon is described by Robert Parker as "one of the more intellectual vignerons in Châteauneuf du-Pape". His vineyard holdings are surprisingly small, around 14 hectares, which are divided between his properties in Lirac, Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Cotes du Rhône. The Châteauneuf vineyards are well situated in Les Cabrieres, La Crau, Courtherzon and Nalys and the average age of his vines is unusually high with some of them dating back to the early 1900s. The general cepage is made up of 70% Grenache although this is reduced in his top two cuvées, the Cuvee Reservee and he Cuvée Prestige. Roger Sabon is a traditionalist and prefers to age his wines in small oak piece, none of which are new, for six months following a sojourn en cuve. He places great emphasis upon elegance rather than power in his wines and in youth his wine can be deceiving. With time, however, they grow and gain in depth and complexity and are some of the finest Châteauneufs being produced today.
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

The largest and most important appellation in the southern Rhône, with more than 3,200 hectares of vineyards and over 80 growers, Châteauneuf-du-Pape produces more wine than the whole of the northern Rhône combined. The gloriously rich red wines, redolent of the heat and herbs of the south, are enhanced by the complexity which comes from blending several of the 14 permitted grape varieties including Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah.
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