Vanessa

9.3

🍷 The epitome of elegance in Châteauneuf-du-Pape

☝️ This is not your average high octane CNdP rouge. It’s a pristine, beautiful expression from the Le Clos du Caillou.

😆 We were fortunate to visit this family-run estate in the spring, an informative tour led by Marilou Vacheron, who’s helping to lead winemaking for the estate. Un grand merci for your generosity, Marilou!!

🪨 The soil behind Les Quartz are some of the region’s most distinctive, coming from the lieu-dit “Les Cassanets” with sandy soils beneath a layer of quartz-rich pebbles.

👌 This unique soil is known to produce wines of purity, finesse, and lifted aromatics.

🍇 This cuvée is primarily Grenache next to Syrah, harvested by hand, and fermented in oak through the work of native yeast. The Grenache and Syrah were each aged in oak (different vessels) for 14 mos.

👀 The result is concentrated and lifted with blue and black fruits such as blueberry, mulberry, muddled black cherry, next to peppercorn, meat, violets, crushed stone, clove, vanilla, black licorice, cardamom, and earth.
— a day ago

with Deked1

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

vintage 2020 | wow, this wine is powerfull with high alcohol, while the smell is playfull with strawberry, cherry, plum and tobacco. — 5 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Pale lemon color with aromas of stone and tropical fruits with biscuit and floral notes. On the palate flavors of peach, apple and melon with white floral herb notes. Medium+ finish ending with fruit, herb and yeasty notes, lively acidity with slight mineral character. Small production, nice! — a year ago

Romain Fitoussi

8.9

Bright light purple dress. Pure explosive nose on fruits (red and black) and flowers, typical of carbonic maceration. In mouth the first is light, airy, confirming the nose; carried by a beautiful necessary freshness balancing the little terroir extraction. A modern, "natural" wine, on the fruits at first fond that does not prevent a certain complexity from expressing itself on a peppery and mineral finish. A very beautiful juice to drink from the aperitif, which blindly could pass for a rosé.

Robe légère violine éclatante. Nez pure explosifs sur les fruits (rouge et noirs) et fleurs, typique des vins en macération carbonique. En bouche l’abord est léger, aérien, confirmant le nez; porté par une belle fraîcheur nécessaire équilibrant le peu de terroir extrait. Un vin moderne, “nature”, sur les fruits á l’abord friand n’empêchant pas une certaine complexité de s’exprimer sur une finale poivrée et minérale. Un très beau jus à boire des l’apéro, qui à l’aveugle c’est pourrait passer pour un rosé. — 4 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.3

Did. Not. Suck.
BBQ season people! Savory wines to the front of the line please! — 6 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

2024 vintage. Supposedly 100% Sauvvie B this go round. Whatever. Still pretty crushable for the price. 8.12.26. — a month ago

Perry Atha

9.7

Wonderful blend- enjoyed with Salmon and Veal — 3 months ago

S

8.9

Paris L’Escudella — 4 months ago

Todd Brooks

9.0

Lemon, grapefruit, with a little oak. Nice and crisp. — 7 months ago

Tom Barras

8.9

Rack of Lamb is on the menu tonight and this delicious, easy drinking blend of Grenache and Syrah (80/20), from a unique vineyard footprint that lies in both CNDP and CDR, comes this 2020 Les Quartz from the h in igh quality southern Rhone, Les Clos du Caillou producer.

It displays a gorgeous, leggy, red berry appearance that is backed up by perfumed red and black berry aromas and flavors.

Overall, it is full bodied, lightly structured with a good balance of crisp acidity and light, dusty tannins, which together, deliver a delicious, mouth coating finish. (BTW, It worked beautifully with a sashimi grade tuna appetizer!)
— a year ago

Cassie Carreras

9.5

Commander's Palace wine and cheese night - Should Have Been Jazz Fest #2 — 5 years ago

Max Waldron

9.0

With carignan- jammy and delicious but not obvious — 6 years ago

Tobin Spratte

8.9

Solid white with subtle mineral, floral, and citrus notes. I don't have much experience with white CDRs so not much to compare it to. — 2 months ago

Kay Mills

8.9

Maritana 5-24-26 — 4 months ago

Stefan Dolhain

9.3

2025 vintage (primeur). — 5 months ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.0

Cool label. Nice color. Darker version on Pinot Noir. Smells like avocado oil, currant and cranberry sauce and cut wood. Flavors are cherry berry sauce. Fuller backbone. Like a really good berry based candy. Complex. — 10 months ago

aik

9.0

too much new oak flavour. Needed bigger glass! but, texture is incredibly creamy, silkx, adding comfortable complexity.
luck back bone acidity. — 4 years ago

Colin Cahoon

9.0

Raspberry, tart cherry, and cranberry on the nose. Tart cherry, strawberry, cranberry, cinnamon, and minerals on the palate. High alcohol, medium tannins, and high acid with a medium finish. — 4 years ago

with Susan

William Renert

9.5

Well balanced. Still significant tannin remains for an ‘05. Delightful — 5 years ago

Mandi Lovasz

9.5

Beautiful deep golden color, aromas are slightly buttery, not overly oaky, grass, lemon grass, citrus, and apricots. Nice and floral, and very drinkable. Would be great paired with southeast Asian foods. — 7 years ago

with Alex