military_tech
RESERVED
CONFRÉRIE
Châteauneuf du Pape La Crau 2008 Vieux Télégraphe
-
Master Cellar Expert Selection
Bottles chosen with passion, directly from the winemakers
-
Zero Breakage Guarantee
Every order carefully packed, each bottle individually protected
-
Tax-Free / Worldwide Shipping
VAT automatically deducted at checkout for non-EU customers, Global Blue in-shop
Product Details
- Format
- 75 cl
- Region
- VALLEE DU RHONE
- Vintage
- 2008
- Ranking
- VILLAGE
- Appellation
- CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE
- Degree
- 14.5°
- Color
- ROUGE
- Country
- FRANCE
- Author
- Emily
- CONFRERIE
- CHEVALIER
A mature Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Vieux Télégraphe's legendary La Crau plateau, showing stewed dark fruits, garrigue, and fine leather notes. The palate is broad and harmonious, shaped by the cuvée's characteristic elegance and precision.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 2008 Vieux Télégraphe
The 2008 vintage, fresher and more classical in expression, reveals a different but deeply elegant reading of the celebrated La Crau plateau. In a year marked by measured ripeness, Vieux Télégraphe crafted a wine of remarkable finesse, built on balance, digestibility, and aromatic precision rather than raw power.
The nose today unfolds with beautiful tertiary complexity: lightly stewed red fruits, cherry eau-de-vie, fine leather, spice box, black tea, and dried garrigue. The terroir's distinctive minerality emerges as well, an almost saline quality that adds a vertical lift to the wine.
On the palate, La Crau 2008 flows with fluidity and length, its tannins fully resolved and a cool finish that carries through to the close. The character belongs to an evolved Châteauneuf-du-Pape held in perfect balance, with a Burgundian soul at its core: elegance, transparency, and subtlety throughout, free from any heat-driven excess.
At its peak now, it can age for several more years but drinks most beautifully at present, alongside refined dishes such as roasted partridge, lamb shoulder braised with herbs, or a delicate Provençal ragout.
A fine testament to an underrated vintage, one that plays the card of finesse and balance in a precisely calibrated interpretation of La Crau's terroir.
The 2008 vintage, fresher and more classical in expression, reveals a different but deeply elegant reading of the celebrated La Crau plateau. In a year marked by measured ripeness, Vieux Télégraphe crafted a wine of remarkable finesse, built on balance, digestibility, and aromatic precision rather than raw power.
The nose today unfolds with beautiful tertiary complexity: lightly stewed red fruits, cherry eau-de-vie, fine leather, spice box, black tea, and dried garrigue. The terroir's distinctive minerality emerges as well, an almost saline quality that adds a vertical lift to the wine.
On the palate, La Crau 2008 flows with fluidity and length, its tannins fully resolved and a cool finish that carries through to the close. The character belongs to an evolved Châteauneuf-du-Pape held in perfect balance, with a Burgundian soul at its core: elegance, transparency, and subtlety throughout, free from any heat-driven excess.
At its peak now, it can age for several more years but drinks most beautifully at present, alongside refined dishes such as roasted partridge, lamb shoulder braised with herbs, or a delicate Provençal ragout.
A fine testament to an underrated vintage, one that plays the card of finesse and balance in a precisely calibrated interpretation of La Crau's terroir.
You might also like these wines
BURGUNDY
| MEO-CAMUZET
Vosne Romanée 1er cru Aux Brulées 2023 Domaine Méo Camuzet
Price reserved for Chevaliers
military_tech
RESERVED
CONFRÉRIE
