Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 fabulous Côtes de Castillon to

fabulous Côtes de Castillon to drink over the next two decades

Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millésime was showing as brilliantly as ever

a little heady and quite ripe with black rather than red fruit

highly complex and well-balanced finish that really fans out as it sits on the palate

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 fabulous Côtes de Castillon toI 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