Mas de Boislauzon Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee du Quet 2016 (750ML)

98 JD / 96 WE / 95 VM

Similarly colored to the classic cuvée, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Quet is 80% Grenache and 20% Mourvèdre. It offers a huge, rich, powerful style that never goes over the top and stays balanced and graceful. Currants, toasted spices, caramelized beef, and exotic notes all flow to a massively textured, powerhouse of a wine that has a stacked mid-palate, a bombastic personality, and a great finish. It needs two to three years of bottle age but is an incredible, heady, powerful wine. Jeb Dunnuck

Cassis and blueberry flavors are juicy and mouthfilling in this buoyant, fruity wine. It's a glossy, silken sip, but anchored by a stalwart grip of tannins. Enjoyable in youth for its lipsmacking fruit it should gain finesse and savoriness through 2030. — Anna Lee C. Iijima, Wine Enthusiast

Deep crimson. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and blue fruits, incense and smoky minerals, and a sexy floral topnote builds as the wine opens up. Alluringly sweet, deeply concentrated raspberry, boysenberry, lavender pastille and spicecake flavors become livelier as the wine stretches out. Displays superb delineation and bright, spicy thrust on an impressively long, sweet finish framed by supple, slowbuilding tannins-Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media