Wine from Southern Rhone

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: A rock-star bottling that over-delivers, Julien's 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Signature offers up tons of Provencal charm in its kirsch, peppery, licorice and wild herb aromas and flavors. Big, full-bodied, sexy and...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: One of the more endowed 2009s this is packed with dark smoldering cocoa mesquite tobacco and roasted fig notes all inlaid with pure cassis and plum preserves fruit flavors. Long and authoritative on the finish with singed...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The monumental 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Prestige is a creative blend of 60% Grenache 15% Syrah 10% Mourvedre and the rest grapes such as Vaccarese Muscardin Cinsault Terret Noir and Counoise. Most of the fruit is...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: 95+ I was surprised by the softness and silkiness of the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Le Secret des Sabon. Largely a field blend estimated to be about 90% Grenache and 10% unidentifiable varieties, it is the most accessible...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: A wine that blew me away, and the best bottle of this I've tasted, the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Combe des Fous gave up exotic and intense aromas and flavors of ground pepper, kirsch liqueur, incense, white chocolate and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: Also gorgeous, but in a more forward, perfumed style, the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape is loaded with kirsch, wild strawberry, licorice, Asian spice and wild herb-like aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, sweetly fruited...

The Rhone Report, 94 points: The 2009 Domaine de la Solitude (Lançon Père et Fils) Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Cornelia Constanza is 100% Grenache that comes all from sandy soils and is aged mostly in concrete but with 10% of the blend in new oak...

The Rhone Report, 99 points: Easily one of the top wines of the vintage and an utterly profound wine the just bottled 2009 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin 70% Mourvèdre and the rest an even split of Grenache Syrah...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: There are 535 cases of the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Croix de Bois (100% Grenache from 110-year-old vines planted on the famed small rocks called Galets Roules). It is a classic Chateauneuf with lots of roasted herb...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Another wine that got better and better over the evening was the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee de Mon Aieul. I've drunk through my fair share of bottles of this over the past few years. It has never shut down and has...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Another wine that got better and better over the evening was the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee de Mon Aieul. I've drunk through my fair share of bottles of this over the past few years. It has never shut down and has...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: Shockingly good, the 2009 Châteauneuf du Pape Hommage À Jacques Perrin offers an off-the-charts bouquet of Provençal herbs, truffle and wet-dog-like qualities intermixed with classic blueberry, blackberry and cassis...