Clos St Jean, Chateauneuf Du Pape Combe Des Fous Size:3x750ml This is a real treasure

This is a real treasure for your cellar

but that's not always a good thing

perhaps overwhelmed by the succeeding vintage

the 2012 is drinking beautifully today

Over the last six months the 2004 Cristal has come together beautifully and is shaping up to be a truly great

Clos St Jean, Chateauneuf Du Pape Combe Des Fous Size:3x750ml This is a real treasureThe two special cuvees are both as good as wine can get. The 2007 Chteauneuf du Pape la Combe des Fous is the more pure, elegant and seamless of the two, but it s still a huge wine that has overflowing notions of smoked meats, ripe black currants, toasted spice, liquid smoke and garrigue. It s utterly seamless on the palate, with fine tannin, no hard edges and incredible purity of fruit. It s firing on all cylinders but certainly has another decade or