Brotte - Domaine Barville Chateauneuf du Pape

2020
Producer
Brotte
Blend
100% Red Rhone Blend
Country
France
Region
Rhone Valley
Appellation
Chateauneuf Du Pape
UPC
0 15643 68478 4
Red Wine
Verified Stock
11441C-20/12PK
Product Ratings
Jeb Dunnuck 92pt

The 2020 Chateauneuf Du Pape Domaine Barville is clearly outstanding and has the pure, classic, satisfying style of the vintage front and center. Darker berries, licorice, roasted herbs, and some leathery notes define the nose, and it's medium to full-bodied, balanced, and has a great finish.

by Jeb Dunnuck, 2022
Wine Advocate 92pt

From this Brotte-owned estate, Barville's 2020 Chateauneuf du Pape should be a solid value. Nicely harmonious notes of black cherries and black raspberries lead the way on the nose, while the medium to full-bodied palate is supple and seemingly easy but with ample concentration, purity, richness and length.

by Wine Advocate, 2023

Food pairing

Enjoy with braised meat with black olives, beef tartare with bearnaise sauce, foil truffle foie gras, chocolate cake.

Tasting notes

Color: Ruby color with violet sheen.
Nose: Marked by its terroir character of spices, black pepper, lavender, black cherries and blackberries.
Palate: Elegant and well balanced, full-bodied, powerful with persistent aromas of red fruit and garrigue. This wine offers a great tasting pleasure and reward the most patients.

Vinification

Vinegrowing, budding, leafing, green pruning. Manual harvesting and rapid transport of the grapes in small containers to avoid compaction and oxidation of the grape. Destemmed, crushed and fermented at 28 °C followed by maceration for 3 weeks. Load shedding per day during fermentation. Ageing 12 months of syrah, grenache and tannic mourvedres in French oak barrels (1/3 new, 1/3 wine, 1/3 two wines), and more supple and fruity grenache tank and traditional lightning for 12 months.

Vineyard

The Domaine is Barville homestead Laurent Brotte. 15ha vineyard west of the village, it consists of seven parcels covering two of the oldest and best terroirs of the AOC (red clay and pebbles at a place called Pradel and broken limestone instead-said Beaurenard). At an altitude of 100 meters, the vines 35 years of age on average overlooking the Rhone and enjoy the health benefits and the mistral and a good exposure to the critical maturity of the berries.