Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2007 416 cases made

416 cases made

balsamic and spicy

This is the ripest of the three Vosne villages wines yet it retains good freshness and spiciness that adds appeal to the red and dark berry fruit aromas that are trimmed in notes of sandalwood

with the bitter structure and the exaggerated phenolic ripeness of the growing season

My projected range offers the benefit of the doubt that this will flesh out with time in bottle

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2007 416 cases madeI loved the two 2005s from Clos du Caillou and this team knocked it out of the park in this vintage. The 2005 Chteauneuf du Pape les Safres is still inky colored, with fabulous aromas and flavors of sweet blackberries, currants, toasted spice, camphor and licorice. Full bodied, ripe and layered, with sweet tannin, this is a borderline fruit bomb that dishes out loads of pleasure. Much more open and exuberant than when I tasted it earlier this year, it