Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2016 MG

Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2016 MG is a Grenache-led Rhône red with old-vine blue fruit from La Crau and La Nerthe lieux-dits. This is the Reine des Bois magnum with serious cellar intent. Expect blueberry and anise, with cocoa and vanilla folded into a dense dry finish.

About the Wine
The 2016 Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape MG comes from the southern Rhône in a 1500 ml magnum format made for slow evolution. The fruit is led by Grenache, with Syrah and Mourvèdre adding darker tones to the blend. Older Grenache vines supply 80 percent of the wine from La Crau and La Nerthe. Those named sites give this bottling a clear identity inside Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The vineyard material sits on sandy ground with stony galets roulés, and the domaine farms these parcels organically. In the cellar, Reine des Bois 2016 keeps the southern blend in a dense dry red frame. Oak makes up 30 percent of the élevage, and in this bottle it has melted into the wine. You feel it as cocoa powder, vanilla pod and a satin edge around the tannins. The scale is large for Châteauneuf-du-Pape, with 15 percent alcohol carried through ripe blue fruit and licorice. The magnum holds the finish in a long dark line of anise and crushed stone.

Tasting Notes
Blueberry leads the nose, then anise seed and dark cocoa move in behind it in the unmistakably dark register of Reine des Bois 2016. The 2016 Domaine de la Mordorée Reine des Bois Châteauneuf-du-Pape feels deep and monumental, with tannins that spread like velvet across the mouth and settle into a long licorice line. The oak is present as vanilla pod and Mexican chocolate, already folded into the ripe Grenache fruit and the savoury pull of Syrah and Mourvèdre. The palate is full-bodied and dry, with 15 percent alcohol giving warmth to blueberry compote, black cherry skin and crushed galet dust; from magnum it needs air in a large glass and patience in the decanter before the finish turns towards cocoa and anise for minutes. Drink 2024-2040.

Food Pairing
Pour this 2016 magnum with rib of beef, côte de boeuf or slow-roasted lamb shoulder; the wine has enough tannin to meet browned fat and herb crust. For a Rhône table, serve daube Provençale with olives and orange peel, then let the anise and cocoa notes echo the stew's dark sauce. Game is a strong match here, especially venison loin with juniper or wild boar ragù over polenta, as the blueberry fruit sits naturally beside sweet meat. With cheese, choose aged Comté, Tomme de Savoie or a firm sheep's milk cheese; the dry finish cleans up salt crystals and nutty rind. The 1500 ml bottle suits a table of roast dishes and firm cheeses, especially when the food has thyme, garlic and a little char.

Producer
Domaine de la Mordorée has one of the most recognizable naming habits in the southern Rhône: bird and woodland references appear across key cuvées, and Reine des Bois carries that private language into Châteauneuf-du-Pape in a way few estate names do. The name Mordorée is linked to the woodcock, a bird with mottled brown plumage, and the estate's labels and cuvée names feel unusually personal before the cork is pulled for this family. The domaine is based in Tavel and the range reaches into Lirac and Châteauneuf-du-Pape with the same attention to ripe skins, dark colour and firm extraction that marks its most serious bottles. Christophe Delorme brought the domaine to wide attention before his death in 2015, and the Delorme family has kept organic farming close to the centre of the work through the following decade. The important detail for this bottle is the estate's comfort with scale; Reine des Bois is selected for depth, old-vine Grenache and the kind of tannin that suits a magnum's patience over a long cellar arc. In the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape MG that signature appears through fruit from La Crau and La Nerthe, wrapped with Syrah and Mourvèdre; the glass finishes on blueberry skin, anise seed plus cocoa and vanilla.

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