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The Torch-Bearer for Châteauneuf-du-Pape Greatness & Value

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2017 Xavier Vignon Cuvee Anonyme Châteauneuf-du-Pape 750 ml

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The Châteauneuf-du-Pape Name to Watch

Xavier Vignon is the ultimate Wine Access favorite. Discovered by our founder more than a decade ago—right when Robert Parker was starting to praise Vignon as one of Châteauneuf’s “most highly renowned” talents—these wines have come to epitomize the Wine Access member-favorite, earning hundreds of member-rankings that put them alongside the undisputed heavyweight champs of the Rhône.

No bottle captures Xavier’s value better than the 2017 Cuvée Anonyme Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Grown on 100-year-old vines in prime, galet-strewn terroir, it earned an impressive 95-97 points from Parker’s Wine Advocate. Jeb Dunnuck chimed in too, raving about Anonyme’s “sexy personality” and “sensational balance.” 

Perhaps most importantly, this very bottle has earned 4.33 out of 5 stars from our members, which puts it with some serious Rhône legends. But while Clos des Papes costs $122 and Château de Nalys, Vieux Télégraphe, and Beaucastel all hover around $90, Cuvée Anonyme is barely half that.

Dark midnight-purple in color, Anonyme’s aromas of super-ripe blackberry, cherry, and strawberry jam are supplemented by notes of garrigue, charcuterie, fresh herbs, and scorched earth. Full-bodied and showing beautiful viscosity, the wine is loaded with ripe black fruits, wild herbs, and peppery spice, all delivered on polished tannins. It’s sensational and opulent now but will age beautifully for a couple decades—and when you finally pull this out of the cellar ten or so years from now, expect stunned silence from your friends. 


This kind of quality doesn’t often come for this price, partially because we see whirlwind vintages—the kind that challenge vintners yet produce incomparable quality—only once or twice in a decade. The 2017 season was warm and dry, forcing old-vine Grenache to dig deep for water and nutrients, yielding tiny berries and incredible concentration in the glass. Barely a drop of rain fell for Xavier Vignon’s most precious ancient-vine Grenache and Mourvèdre sources from the second week of June to the beginning of November. The harvest was small as a result, but the berries that survived had high levels of acidity and sugar—perfect for crafting complex, well-structured, long-lived wines like this Cuvée Anonyme.