CDP Le Petit Livre d'A M Bach, Rotem & Mounir Saouma 2009

The 2009 Châteauneuf du Pape Le Petit Livre d’Anna M. Bach is scheduled to be bottled this September, after five years aging on lees in demi-muid. It too is 100% Grenache from the Pignan lieu-dit and vines planted in 1942. A pretty, perfumed and lively effort, it has notions of cassis, honey blossom, cherry blossom and wild flowers in its medium to full-bodied, elegant and seamless profile. As with a lot of Mounir’s wines, this has a Burgundian-like aspect to its acid profile, yet it has solid concentration and length on the finish. Give bottles a handful of years in the cellar, and it should evolve gracefully going forward. Yet truthfully, with this élevage, I don’t think anyone really knows how this will evolve.