Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, 2005

An exceptional wine from the best of vintages in this area, in recent years. It has a good nose of ripe red berries, tannic to the taste but with very well-balanced acidity and a fresh fruity taste. It gets silkier over the course of a few hours. This is a stellar wine now but will further develop with age.

Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe is owned alongside several other estates by the Brunier family. The domaine wine was named after the creation of Claud Chappe, who invented the optical telegraph and had one of his towers on the land. The estate now encompasses 173 acres and produces some 200,000 bottles a year.