Domaine Olivier Hillaire - Chateauneuf du Pape Les Petits Pieds d'Armand 2017 (750ml)
Price: $120.00
Sale Price: $74.00
| Producer | Domaine Olivier Hillaire |
| Country | France |
| Region | Rhone |
| Subregion | Chateauneuf du pape |
| Varietal | Grenache |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
The 2017 Châteauneuf Du Pape Les Petits Pieds D'Armand is a magical wine and is at the same level as the 2010. Based all on Grenache from La Crau, brought up in larger barrels, it offers a heavenly bouquet of orange blossom, kirsch liqueur, black raspberries, and peppery incense. Super-rich, powerful, and full-bodied, yet also weightless, this is old vine Grenache at its most sexy and opulent. It’s one for the Grenache lovers out there and ideal for drinking over the coming 10-15 years.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
Hillaire's 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Les Petits Pieds d'Armand comes from a patch of Grenache planted at the end of the 19th century in a sandy portion of la Crau. Aged in 400-liter barrels, it shows virtually no wood flavors, instead delivering floral notes of roses, black tea and ripe cherries. Full-bodied and supple, it picks up hints of cinnamon and clove on the long, silky-textured finish. It's a terrific effort that can be drunk with pleasure now and anytime over the next 15 years.
Wine Enthusiast: 96 Points
This powerful yet luminous, red-fruited Grenache was sourced entirely from safre, or sandy soils, of the famed La Crau Ouest. Blackberry and raspberry flavors are profoundly ripe but blinding in purity, balanced by a lift of minerality and pert, upright tannins. While breathtaking in youth, it should gain complexity well through 2035 and likely hold further still.
The Wine Cellar Insider: 95 Points
There is a lot to like here starting with all the sweet, black raspberries, cherries, kirsch, flowers and spice on the nose and palate. The wine is medium-bodied, lifted, soft and silky, with a nice dose of concentrated peppery red fruits in the finish.
