Domaine du Vieux Lazaret 2012

Greg Hughes rated this wine as 92/100 with the following review:

This estate belongs to an historic family that has been in the Rhone Valley since the eighteenth century. The Domaine de Vieux Lazaret was a local hospital before it made delicious wines.
Domaine du Vieux Lazaret, as a blend, is typically mostly Grenache. In support, it's usually got asignificant portion of Shiraz, Mourvedre, and Cinsault.
The colour is a beautiful deep ruby, with some bricking.
Southern Rhone wines, like this one, are usually said to have a distinctive garrigue (dried scrub herb) smell to them. This one certainly has this; along with cherry coulis, licorice, leather, and a lot of blackberry.
The oak is balanced and integrated. The alcohol is not too out of kilter for something this ripe. Full bodied flavours of dried herbs, blackberry, cherry, and a gamey or sanguinary note. It's actually quite savoury on the finish.
This is textbook Chateuneuf. It's complex, suave, and ageworthy. Put it alongside coffee rubbed t-bones, or a traditional cassoulet.

Matt Steeves rated this wine as 89/100 with the following review:

At $45 for a magnum of Châteauneuf-Du-Pape (from the Rhône valley in France), well, you just can't beat it! Medium ruby red, sweet baking spices, field berries, plum, herbs, and floral notes one nose. Medium-bodied and very approachable, it's primed and ready for immediate enjoyment. A great wine for holiday gatherings, it's versatile and friendly, making it well suited for just about any dish you'd like to enjoy with it over the fall and winter. Tasted November 2015. 89 points. Matt Steeves - www.quercusvino.ca