Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 salty-piquant and delicate Vouvray of

salty-piquant and delicate Vouvray of remarkable class and finesse

A more intensely floral-suffused nose reflects an interesting note of pepper on the pretty red currant

This is also quite pretty with its mix of plum

Gaia Gaja tells me that the clusters harvested were perfect in appearance

Clos Caillou, Chateauneuf Du Pape Safres Vintage:2016 salty-piquant and delicate Vouvray ofI 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