Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 Racy and balanced

Racy and balanced

Best from 2013 through 2020

minerals and spice notes

fabulous Côtes de Castillon to drink over the next two decades

Both Nicasia and Angelica are names of vineyards you might see on their labels

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 Racy and balancedI 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