2023 vintage tasting note:
The expressive nose is ripe, dark and deep. A gentle minerality, casting a delicate veil, imparts freshness. Exceptionally long on the palate, it tends towards dark chocolate, with garrigue and liquorice flavours. It is dense, well-structured and lush, with clean-cut notes. The tannins are still slightly on the firm side. What we have here is a classic, well-balanced Vieux Télégraphe that will grow more generous over the next months of ageing.

Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe has been run by the Brunier family, for six generations - since 1891 to be precise. The estate's vineyards, 70 years old on average, are planted on the celebrated Plateau of La Crau, a site renowned for grape-growing in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. This terroir imparts to our wines a highly distinctive minerality, as if they have been filtered through the thick layer of large pebbles left behind when the Alpine glaciers melted, long before the Rhône Valley formed.

65% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 15% Mourvèdre and 5% Cinsault.

VINE AGE: 70 years on average.

VINIFICATION: grapes are hand-picked, with double sorting at the vine, then a third sorting in the winery. Gentle pressing and selective destemming, followed by 30-40 days' traditional fermentation
in temperature-controlled stainless-steel and wooden vats. Pneumatic pressing, then systematic malolactic fermentation.

MATURATION: 20-22 months in French oak foudres (60hl). Bottled unfined and unfiltered, then released at 2 years.

PERSONALITY AND AGEING: a classic red Châteauneuf-du-Pape, very fine and elegant. The best vintages will age for 25 years and more.