L'Oratoire des Papes : Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2024

Tasting advice for L'Oratoire des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc 2024

Tasting

Colour
The wine displays a bright yellow hue, enhanced by graceful green highlights.

Nose
The nose reveals notes of white fruit, floral aromas, vanilla and toasted dried fruits.

Palate
Combining softness, tension and salinity, the palate charms with its persistence and richness.

Food and wine pairings

Seafood with rich flesh (scallops, lobster), or a langoustine carpaccio with olive oil and aromatic herbs, make for refined pairings.

Serving and cellaring

For optimal tasting, serve at 10°C after decanting for 30 minutes, or open a few hours before serving. This cuvée can be cellared until around 2034.

A generous, beautifully balanced Châteauneuf-du-Pape blanc

The estate

Named in tribute to the oratory located below its first plot, L’Oratoire des Papes has embodied for nearly 150 years the enduring union of pleasure and prestige. Offering the purest, contemporary expression of the four emblematic Châteauneuf-du-Pape soil types, these wines stand out for their elegance well beyond the region’s borders.

The vineyard

The uniqueness of Châteauneuf-du-Pape lies in the richness and diversity of its soils, shaped by three distinct geological eras: limestone fragments, rounded pebbles, safres and red sandstone. True to this mosaic, the estate follows a terroir-respectful approach, with organic farming practices in the vineyard and low-intervention winemaking in the cellar, in order to preserve the authenticity and personality of the place.

The wine

The Clos de L’Oratoire des Papes Les Chorégies collection, available in red and white, results from a selection of exceptional Châteauneuf-du-Pape plots. Sourced from old-vine parcels planted in the 1960s on rounded pebbles for the reds, these Vallée du Rhône wines reveal a concentration of elegance, tension and generosity.

Winemaking and ageing

Hand-harvested, the grapes are gently pressed as whole bunches. Vinification takes place in 600-litre ceramic amphorae and 300 L barrels. Ageing in the same vessels for 6 months, followed by a further year of bottle ageing.

Blend

Clairette, Bourboulenc