Presse Fiches Techniques
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parution du 27 Juin 2013 N°2128
SELECTION DES VINS D'ETE : Côtes du Rhône " Réserve Grand Veneur" 2011
"Nez délicat, expressif, fruits noirs, épices douces, balsamique, très savoureux, tanins veloutés, finale fraiche et nette."
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RÉSERVE GRAND VENEUR COTES DU RHÔNE 2010 
La Réserve Grand Veneur de cette maison de négoce habituée du Guide revêt une robe rubis aux reflets éclatants. Au nez, elle dispense des parfums discrets de fruits à l'alcool mêlés à d'autres arômes plus frais de bourgeon de cassis. La bouche, ample et longue, revient sur les fruits, avant de laisser la place aux épices et à la réglisse. À boire dès l'automne, sur une daube provençale.
La Réserve Grand Veneur 2011 rosé (25 000 b.),florale (violette), à la fois ronde et fraîche, est citée. On lui destinera une volaille.
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A propos des CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE blancs
“…a few special cuvées can rival the top Burgundies, especially the Roussanne cuvées of Beaucastel, Grand Veneur “La Fontaine”, and La Nerthe.” Robert Parker
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE white « La Fontaine » 2009 (95/100) This is one of those rare cases where the 2011 is even better than the 2010. The 2011 Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc “La Fontaine” exhibits plenty of honey, floral (especially rose petals), marmalade and tangerine skin characteristics in a full-bodied, rich, pure, well-structured and delineated style. Drink : 3-4 years.
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE white « La Fontaine » 2009 (94/100) The 100% Roussanne cuvee, the expensive but very white Burgundy-like 2009 Grand Veneur Chateauneuf du Pape La Fontaine blanc comes from 70+-year-old Roussanne vines and is aged 6-8 months in 600-liter demi-muids. It exhibits intense aromas of flowers, honeysuckle, candle wax, rose water, orange marmalade and apricots. Full-bodied with great acidity, the wood is pushed way to the background.
Châteauneuf du Pape GRAND VENEUR « La Fontaine » 2008 (92/100) The 2008 GRAND VENEUR La Fontaine is also superb. Although slightly less powerful than the 2009, it is very similar. While these wines have the potential to drink well for a decade, I would recommend consuming them in the first 2-3 years of life.
Châteauneuf du Pape, GRAND VENEUR "La Fontaine" 2007 (92 /100) 100% Roussanne showing plenty of honeyed pear and floral notes, superb fruit, a layered, full-bodied personality, great elegance, and precision.
Châteauneuf du Pape, GRAND VENEUR "La Fontaine" 2006 (92/100)The estate white Chateauneuf du Pape is a gorgeous wine, as Jaume continues to produce one of the top four or five white wines of the appellation almost on a yearly basis. The 2006 Chateauneuf du Pape La Fontaine blanc is barrique-aged Roussanne and shows amazing grand cru Burgundian characteristics in its nuttiness, rich honeysuckle nose, with some exotic fruit character, great acidity, length, and richness. It tastes like a marmalade of rose petals, apricot, and lychee in an exotic, rich, classically structured style. This wine should drink well for at least 3-4 years and possibly longer, but it is almost impossible to know since there is so little of this wine available.
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR rouge 2011 - Médaille d'Or
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CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE ROUGE 2009
L'AVIS DE GAULT & MILLAU 16/20
Un châteauneuf aux arômes de fruits noirs et rouges mûrs (cassis, cerise) et aux notes d’épices douces, qui sont les prémices d’une bouche savoureuse à l’élevage sobre, aux tanins bien lissés et à la persistance soutenue et poivrée.
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LE TOP 20 DE CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE
Domaine Grand Veneur " Les Origines" 2010 15.3/20
[...] La structure familiale date de 1826, Alain JAUME a crée le Domaine Grand Veneur en 1979 (80 ha aujourd'hui) puis s'est étendu en 2003, pour ses fils Sébastien et Christophe, avec 28 hectares supplémentaires sur Lirac. Les vignobles sont conduits en agriculture biologique. Cette cuvée est élevée 16 mois en barriques.
Les cépages : 50% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 30% Mourvèdre
La dégustation : "Très puissant, séveux, longiligne, ce rouge affirme son caractère viril avec aplomb et saveurs (réglisse, chocolat, cèdre). Son potentiel de vieillissement est évident, il faudra le réserver à un gibier, sauce grand veneur bien sûr !"
ROBERT PARKER
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR « Les Origines » 2010 : 95/100
- Another blockbuster is the 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape “Les Origines”. A blend of 50% Grenache, 30% Syrah and 20% Mourvedre (45- to-95-year-old vines) aged in small oak, it exhibits an opaque purple color as well as a sweet bouquet of blackberries, espresso roast, ink and graphite. While clearly a modern-styled Chateauneuf du Pape, it retains plenty of the region's typicity and authenticity. It should drink well for 15+ years.
- The 2011 Chateauneuf du Pape “Les Origines” is composed of 50% Grenache, 30% Syrah and 20% Mourvedre from 70-year-old vines and aged in new oak. The oak component exercises only a subtle influence on the overall personality of this wine. It exhibits significant creme de cassis, kirsch, blackberry and licorice notes along with a touch of vanillin. Full-bodied, but also accessible, plump and succulent, it can be drunk early in life or cellared for 10-12 years
ROBERT PARKER
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR « Vieilles Vignes » 2010 : 100/100
- A monumental effort meriting a perfect score, the super-rich 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape Vieilles Vignes is a 4,000-bottle blend of 50% Grenache, 40% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah from 55- to 105-year-old vines and was aged for 18 months in small oak. The wine offers majestic blackberry and cassis fruit intermixed with kirsch, licorice and subtle Provencal herbs in the background. It is akin to chewing meat in the mouth given its viscosity and thickness. This utterly amazing wine comes close to being over the top, but it pulls back just in time. A massive Chateauneuf du Pape (even for a 2010), it needs 5-6 years of cellaring and should age effortlessly for 25-30 years. Bravo ! »
- The 2011 Chateauneuf du Pape “Vieilles Vignes” is the most concentrated and potentially long-lived of this 2011 trio. It came in at an amazing 15.5% natural alcohol, and is one of the wines of the vintage. A blend of 50% Grenache, 40% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah aged in small barrels, it blows away just about every other Chateauneuf in this vintage. It boasts an inky/purple color in addition to a gorgeous perfume of crushed rocks, jammy black fruits, charcoal and graphite. This intense, full-bodied 2011's concentration and power are atypical for this vintage. It should age nicely for 15 or more years.
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Alain JAUME
Du grenache, de la syrah et une pointe de mourvèdre pour ce 2010 d' Alain Jaume. Le nez évoque les fruits frais, les épices (poivre) et la réglisse, agrémentés d'une nuance florale originale de tilleul. Sur la même ligne aromatique, le palais séduit par sa douceur et sa rondeur, de bons tanins lui apportant la structure nécessaire pour voir venir encore trois ou quatre ans. Unanimement recommandé par les jurés sur une viande en sauce.
COUP DE COEUR du Guide HACHETTE !
« Les CHAMPAUVINS » 2008
Régulièrement sélectionné dans ces pages, le GRAND VENEUR d’Alain JAUME & Fils fait forte impression avec ce 2008 issu du trio Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre…les tanins du vin et du bois sont superbement fondus, laissant s’exprimer avec persistance les fruits rouges et noirs. Une magnifique réussite !
Robert Parker
"…Les CHAMPAUVINS" emerges from a vineyard planted twenty feet outside the Châteauneuf du Pape border …
“…full-bodied and dense it tastes more like a Châteauneuf du Pape than a Côtes du Rhône."
…it represents a baby-Châteauneuf du Pape.
“…it is as good as many producers of Châteauneuf du Pape”
“…buy this one by the case !” RP
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR COTES DU RHONE red « Les Champauvins » 2010 (91 /100)
The gorgeous 2010 Cotes du Rhone Les Champauvins possesses lots of kirsch, pepper and lavender notes, sweet tannin, a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, and good focus as well as length. It is fresher and livelier than the lovely 2009 recommended several issues ago.
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR COTES DU RHONE red « Les Champauvins » 2009 (90+ /100)
The outstanding, silky, pure 2009 Cotes du Rhone « Les Champauvins » represents a baby Chateauneuf du Pape. Composed of 70% Grenache, 20% Syrah, and 10% Mourvedre, it reveals a deep ruby/plum color in addition to full-bodied flavors, light tannin, and lavender, truffle, black currant, and black cherry aromas.
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DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR LIRAC « CLOS DE SIXTE » 2010
Navire-amiral de la maison JAUME & Fils, le Grand Veneur a étendu son vignoble en 2003 sur l'appellation lirac avec ce Clos de Sixte. Dans sa version 2010, le vin, paré d'une robe carminée aux reflets violets, dévoile un nez complexe de fruits cuits, d'épices, de tabac blond et de pierre à fusil. La bouche est à l'unisson, bien équilibrée, longue et d'une puissance mesurée. À boire dans les deux ans à venir. ----- Robert Parker ----
Along with Domaine de la Mordoree, the Jaumes produce one of the finest wines of Lirac. The 2010 Clos de Sixte Lirac should compete with the brilliant 2009. Black currant, spring flower, licorice and crushed rock aromas jump from the glass of this dense ruby/purple-colored, full-bodied, beautifully pure, textured and dense Lirac. It should drink well for at least a decade
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR LIRAC “Clos de Sixte” red 2009 – (93/100)
A prodigious effort ; the 2009 Lirac “Clos de Sixte”. This dense purple-colored wine offers up notes of black truffles, charcoal, blackberries, kirsch, garrigue, new saddle leather, herbs de Provence, spice box, and smoke. It possesses great fruit, full-bodied power, excellent depth, and abundant silky tannins. Drink it over the next 6-8 years.
DOMAINE GRAND VENEUR CLOS DE SIXTE Lirac 2007 : (93/100)
The 2007 Lirac Clos de Sixte is composed of 50% Grenache, 35% Syrah, and 15% Mourvedre. Abundant licorice, graphite, black cherry, and blackberry characteristics are offered in a full-bodied, deep, fleshy style. Liracs generally do not age as long as Chateauneuf du Papes, but this effort is capable of lasting 5-7 years where well-stored as it is a big, impressively endowed wine.
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Internationnal Wine Cellar - Tanzer
2010 Alain Jaume & Fils Vacqueyras Grande Garrigue
92/100
(65% grenache, 20% syrah, 10% mourvedre and 5% cinsault): Deep ruby. Fresh red and dark berries on the intensely perfumed nose. Juicy, focused and energetic, offering powerful raspberry and cherry flavors that pick up spiciness with air. Shows very good clarity and brightness on the spicy finish, which clings with very good tenacity.
ROBERT PARKER
Alain JAUME & Fils, VACQUEYRAS « Grande Garrigue » 2010 : 92/100
- The brilliant 2010 Vacqueyras “Grande Garrigue” is a blend of 60% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 10% Mourvedre and 10% Cinsault (an unusual combination for Vacqueyras). The wine reveals plenty of licorice, camphor, black currant, kirsch and bouquet garni characteristics in a meaty, full-bodied, dense, lusty style. It will benefit from several years of cellaring and should keep for 12+ years. It is a sleeper of the vintage.
- The 2011 Vacqueyras Grande Garrigue possesses plenty of Provencal herb, pepper, lavender and meaty notes intermixed with sweet kirsch and blacker fruits.
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Côté négoce, le Lirac Alain JAUME 2010 rouge « Roquedon » (8 à 11 €; 27 000 b.), rond, soyeux et fruité, obtient lui aussi une étoile.
