Mas de Boislauzon is a wine estate locate just North of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in the said district of Boislauzon next to the city of Orange.
The property is run by brother and sister Daniel and Christine Chaussy, 6th generation of the family to manage Mas de Boislauzon.
The vineyards of Mas de Boislauzon are certified organic (Agriculture Biologique) since 2012, and cropped using biodynamic techniques.
Red grape varieties are primarily Grenache and Mourvèdre, with the oldest, most prized vines of Mourvèdre reaching 70+ years of age, while the whites include Roussanne and Clairette.
The estate is composed of:
- 10 hectares of vineyards (22 acres) spread out across 15 blocks over the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, in sub-areas known as Cabrières, Boislauzon, La Gardiole, Palestor, Pignan, and Les Brusquières.
- 20 hectares of vineyards (50 acres) in the Côtes du Rhône Villages appellation also divided into 15 plots in a 5-km radius around the winery, in areas called Boislauzon, Coudoulet, and La Gironde.
The ‘boarder’ separating the vineyard area of Châteauneuf and Cote du Rhone is marked on the Boislauzon estate by two oak trees (‘les deux chênes’ in French), the symbol of Mas de Boislauzon represented on most of their wine labels.
Terroirs here offer a variety of sand, loam, limestone, rocks and pebbles, and clay soils.
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Wine Reviews of Mas de Boislauzon Rhône Wines
Find below my wine reviews and full tasting notes of all Mas de Boislauzon red and white, Chateauneuf and Cote du Rhone wines.
2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape red, Rhône, France
Score: 92+/100 points
Blend of 70% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre, aged in stainless steel and oak barrels. Certified organic wine.
Overall Review Notes & Tasting Impressions
With a very dark and intense red color intensified by a wealth of purple hues, this Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine bursts with a vibrant, deep and powerful aromatic profile.
The nose is a complex and profound intricate combination of fresh dark berry notes, raspberry and blackberry, with hints of riper jammier blackcurrant and prune. Deep notes of cocoa and roasted coffee beans add depth. While pungent notes of white pepper and nutmeg spice up and lift up a captivating nose.
On the palate this red wine is filled with an enormous concentration, bursting with a vibrant and crisp acidity, but coated with a solid oily body, and smoothed by a dense, granulous but silky tannic structure.
Flavors are very powerful too, with the jammy notes of dark berries mixed with oaky touches of vanilla and wood smoke, evolving towards deep torrefacted flavors of coffee and dark chocolate.
Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf is a universe of complexity, powerful concentrated flavors and tannins, balanced by a fresh and salivating acidity that underlines pungent notes of berries and energetic spices.
With a very long finish and many layers of both aromas and flavors, the wine makes for a tasting experience where every second brings a new discovering and a new enchantment.
A standout wine in a beautifully balanced vintage, fresh in its fruity expression, but very ripe, concentrated, and profound.
Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf Rouge Label Images
2016 Mas de Boilauzon ‘Tintot’ Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red
Score: 92/100 points
Blend of 85% Mourvèdre, 15% Grenache.
Overall Review Notes & Tasting Impressions
With a dense and dark red color featuring shiny purple hues, this Châteauneuf red boasts a very intense nose with ripe-fruit dominant aromas.
A powerful background of dark chocolate and sweet spices is just-nearly overpowered by intense notes of dark cherry and fresh blackberries. Hints of peppery spices and a touch of earthiness add respectively a lifted minty element, and depth of aromatic field.
The palate confirms we are here with such an incredibly deep yet fruit-driven Châteauneuf.
The body is round and powerful, yet the tannic structure feels relatively loose, letting extremely vibrant flavors of raspberry coulis and blackberry jam being expressed.
Tannins are soft and quite concentrated. They are granulous and floating relatively scarcely in an ocean of concentrated and comforting background of flavors. This is not your tight and hyper-tannic Châteauneuf. But rather a juicy and tempting expression of gorgeous ripe Grenache wine and Mourvèdre fruit.
An extremely charming Châteauneuf-du-Pape red, featuring such a distinctive and pungent personality. One can sense and taste the love for the fruit character here, simply nicely backed up by a heap load of declinate elegantly-oaky flavors, vanilla and touches of caramel and maple syrup.
Juicy, powerful, vibrant, this a wine that feels and make you feel, intensely alive.
Certainly, a Châteauneuf to experience…
2016 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Quet red
Score: 92/100 points
Blend of 80% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre aged in tanks and oak barrels.
Overall Review Notes & Tasting Impressions
With a deep red color, both with delicate orange and purple hues, yet not looking overly dense or dark,
Quet Châteauneuf’s nose is captivating and charming.
It’s all about ripe cooked fruit and spices to smell at. Cooked apple and prune, cherry liqueur, blackberry jam and orange marmalade come with powerful lifted white pepper aromas.
It’s deep and intriguing nose, both powerful and pungent upfront, yet so intense and complex it leaves you wondering what the wine really holds…
The palate reveals we are here with still a young wine with a long way of potential evolution to go.
This is a dense and concentrated Châteauneuf yet it does feel chewy or overall tannic, with remarkably silky tannins, an oily body and a crisp acidity cutting through the richness.
Flavors come literally as an explosion on your palate. There is so much going on in terms of jammy red berries, cooked plums and somewhat of a dried banana aftertaste, combined with a heap of all sorts of warming spices. Chili, black and white pepper, clove, nutmeg, caramel and vanilla. So many layers are intricately combined and delivered it’s a literal fireworks of flavor sensations.
A Châteauneuf with an immense potential for delivering tasting pleasure. Big, intense and warming, it maintains its composure through all its hearty expression with fine and complex layers of powerful yet somewhat elegant flavors.
A wine with a rare concentration and balance, providing, as a consequence, a rare tasting experience full of discoveries and surprises at every second.
Boislauzon Châteauneuf Cuvée Quet Label Images
2017 Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc
Score: 91/100 points
Blend of 70% Roussanne, with 30% Clairette.
Overall Review Notes & Tasting Impressions
With its bright and very shiny pale gold color, this white Châteauneuf-du-Pape is certainly inviting to look at.
It is very pleasant to smell at too, with its bright and shiny (as well) scents of apricot, lily flower, brioche and cinnamon. Everything about its aromatic profile suggests warmth and comfort.
Sweet stonefruits ripen under the sun of Southern France, tropical flowers, the smell of a warm cinnamon bun just out of the oven… The nose is fresh and vibrant, yet with an unpalpable sense of depth and complexity.
Tasting the wine confirms we are here with a multi-faceted white wine. The first and upfront impression is one of freshness like a white peach juice with hints of zingy lemon. The acidity is lively while there is also a generous mouth-coating and round oily body.
From the mid-palate on kick in the yeasty and well-integrated oaky notes of lees, brioche, nutmeg and clove, vanilla and delicate wood smoke. The balanced fruity whole evolves towards a salivating, silky finish featuring fine oak phenolics and many layers of warm flavors, with some heat from the alcohol reminding us we are here with a wine grown under the sun of a warm French region.
A very interesting tasting experience Mas de Boislauzon Châteauneuf-du-Pape white delivers, with many layers of flavors and aromas to make every second a new discovery. Yet, its natural balance and the lively freshness of its fresh fruit characters make for a light and seamless tasting impression, like a fruity unpalpable cloud of flavors on your palate.
Boislauzon Châteauneuf White Label Images
2016 Mas de Boislauzon Côtes du Rhônes Villages, France
Score: 90+/100 points
Blend of 60% Grenache, 15% Mourvèdre, 20% Syrah, and 5% Carignan.
Overall Review Notes & Tasting Impressions
With a pretty dark red color filled with intense purple hues, this is a Rhone wine that you will notice just by looking at it.
The aromatic profile appears deep and captivating thanks to powerful and complex notes of torrefaction, dark cocoa and chocolate. There’s a myriad of spices to be smelt there too, clove and nutmeg, and pungent white pepper. It smells so spicy and uplifting!
Add salivating notes of ripe fresh cherry and warm blackberry, and you’ll understand that this is not your ordinary Cotes du Rhone. Just sniffing it, it boasts a complex variety of tempting aromas.
Like a spicy and lifted black forest cake it somewhat smells like…
The wine, on the palate, goes on telling stories with a dry and tannic backbone. It somewhat feels ashy and salty, with a distinct savoriness suggesting this is one food-friendly red. Yet, an oily and rounded body, probably from a solid influence of the Grenache, make for an opulent coated texture.
A Côtes du Rhône wine with a rare concentration and intensity for the appellation/category.
A young red wine boasting with many complex flavors, from coffee, vanilla and dark chocolate, to juicy ripe blueberry and blackberry, through an outstanding peppery spiciness.
It will satisfy demanding wine connoisseurs, with a new experience at every sip, yet will let itself be sipped easily should you pair it with richly-flavored foods, grilled meats, generous meat stews (like a boeuf bourguignon or equivalent) or a piece of tasty and creamy cheese.