From the highly praised 2009 vintage in the Southern Rhone,

comes this absolutely amazingly delicious Chateauneuf du Pape!

Rated 94 points in Robert Parker's, The Wine Advocate, and it's on sale with a savings of almost 40%.

Like your wines big and bold?

Drink this gem right now!

Like your wines with more mature complexity?

Cellar this beauty and enjoy it over the next 10-15 years

Better yet.. get enough to drink some today, next year,

 and ten years from now~

Life is good!

2009 Domaine de la Janasse Chateauneuf du Pape

Regular price:     $79.99

SALE PRICE:       $49.99

(save almost 40% by the bottle)

Wine Advocate #197, Oct 2011

Robert Parker 94 points  

The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape is probably one of the strongest "regular" efforts I have ever tasted from Sabon. This dense purple blend of 75 to 80% Grenache and the rest Mourvedre and Syrah, aged in truncated wood cuves and foudres, has a beautiful, sweet nose of black cherry jam intermixed with roasted herbs, black currants, forest floor and a hint of charcoal. The wine has great intensity, full-bodied opulence, and a striking seductiveness that is already irresistible. It should continue to drink well for 12-15 years.

This impeccably run estate, in the capable hands of Christophe Sabon, his sister Isabelle, and their father, is one of the superstars of the southern Rhone Valley. Over the last 12-15 years, the quality of the wines has gone from strength to strength, with brilliant wines being produced in all price categories.  

This Saturday's Tasting:

The WINES:

CALIFORNIA DREAMING!

Nine different wines- four white & five red

From seven different grapes~

THE SPIRITS:

Diplomatico Rums from Venezula

WHITES:

Peirano 'The Other' White 2007                   $11.99

Sunbox 11 The Nice Viognier 2007               $41.99       $19.99 sale

OTP Chardonnay 2008                                $24.99

Mer Soliel Silver Chardonnay 2010                $29.99       $22.99 sale

REDS:

Peirano Malbec 2008                                  $11.99

Louis Martini Sonoma Cabernet 2008            $18.99       $12.99 sale

Swanson Merlot 2007                                 $34.99       $24.99 sale

Marc Herold Flux Grenache/Syrah 2008         $29.99

Anderson's Conn Valley Prologue Cab 08       $24.99