31 mar: I have added 2001s from Bosquet des Papes, Grand Tinel and la Vieille Julienne currently available from OW Loeb.
After my recent lukewarm report on the 1998s, I’m delighted to be able to report more enthusiastically on some 2003s, and the odd 2001, on the basis of a tasting last week in London organised by the most important of Châteauneuf’s ludicrously numerous growers’ groups, the Fédération des Syndicats des Producteurs de Châteauneuf-du-Pape. They are proud of being the ones with the bottle with the coat of arms on it instigated by Baron le Roy in the 1930s –...