From the very good 1999 vintage this red wine scores 91100 parker points the 1999 chateauneuf du pape cuvee de mon aieul 10 000 bottles produced has closed down since bottling it is a dense purple colored concentrated effort made from incredibly low yields of 15 20 hectoliters per hectare from 80 year old vines a blend of 95 grenache and 5 cinsault this tannic backward blockbuster vin de garde should open in 4 5 years and last for two decades it is an extracted dense atypically