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Châteauneuf-du-Pape

A southern Rhône appellation allowing a blend of thirteen grape varieties, with grenache at its centre. The reds are broad and warm; the whites are rarer and drink earlier.

Country
France
Region
Vallée du Rhône · Rhône méridional
Main grape varieties
Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Roussanne

Drinking window

Years after the vintage, for a bottle kept in good conditions.

  • Red

    6 to 25 years after the vintage

    For a 2018: drink between 2024 and 2043.

  • White

    2 to 10 years after the vintage

    For a 2018: drink between 2020 and 2028.

These ranges are indicative: vintage, producer and storage conditions shift them.

Sources

The ranges published here are an editorial estimate, cross-checked against the references listed below and against the usual ageing behaviour of the style. They are not figures quoted directly from those sources.