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I was just at a wine tasting. I'm not much of a wine guy, but I tried a lot of different stuff, and to my surprise I was not only confirmed that Château Neuf du Pape is my favourite wine, but the guys I was with who have a lot more knowledge than me agreed it was the best wine they had tasted.
 
When I started working in that wine restaurant in Paris my first darling was Châteauneuf du Pape as well!

There was a rolling wine list, meaning we were ordering few quantities, all bio, and so every two weeks there were new wines or better recurring wines on the list. The wine list was a box with many big cards inside, each card was describing one wine, when the wine was available so was the card, etc.
To keep up with my super competitive colleagues I had to read, feel, listen and taste sometimes 40 wines a week and as I was surrounded myself with talented people I became a popular seller in no time.

Very soon my taste started to shift towards more elegant tones and almost always to wines consisting of single-grape variety (cépage) as Bourgogne wines usually are. If it’s red is Pinot Noir, if white is Chardonnay. All the difference in your palet, nose and eye are: sun, terre (domaine) and producer. Châteauneuf du Pape has as many as 13 grape varieties (!) so the difference in the taste is also due to the different cépages present and their ratio in the mix.
Not to say it's not a killer Appellation I just liked Northern French wines as Bourgogne and Alsace more, which happened to be mono-cépage ones.
 
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