Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, La Crau Rouge 1978
Vieux Telegraphe · Rhone · Chateauneuf-du-Pape
LWIN: 1118076
Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, La Crau Rouge 1978 sold at auction 7 times in the last five years, at a median of $271 per 750ml; half of those sales fell between $221 and $308. The most recent sale was on January 2, 2026. The lowest retail price today is $349, across 2 retail offers.
Auction median, last 5 yrs
$271
7 sales · $221–308 middle half
Lowest retail now
$349
2 retail offers
Last auction sale
Jan 2
2026
Vieux Telegraphe, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, La Crau Rouge, neighbouring vintages
Wine facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Rhone
- Sub-region
- Chateauneuf-du-Pape
- Type
- Red
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About Vieux Telegraphe
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, the Brunier family's Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate, grows its flagship on about 50 ha of the La Crau plateau, covered in rounded Alpine stones. The red, roughly 65% Grenache with 15% each of Mourvèdre and Syrah plus Cinsault and Clairette, from vines averaging 70 years, is sorted three times, partly destemmed, fermented 30–40 days in steel and wooden vats, then aged 20–22 months in 60-hectolitre foudres and bottled unfined and unfiltered; it is fine, classic and long-lived. The white, led by Clairette with Grenache Blanc, Roussanne and Bourboulenc, rests on its lees in barriques, demi-muids and foudres. Télégramme is a supple, Grenache-led second red; Piedlong is old-vine Grenache with Mourvèdre.
- Appellation
- Châteauneuf-du-Pape
- Owner
- Brunier family
- Vineyards
- Flagship from about 50 ha on the Plateau de la Crau, galets roulés
- Grapes
- Grenache (~65%), Mourvèdre, Syrah, Cinsault; whites Clairette, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Bourboulenc
- Wines
- Vieux Télégraphe La Crau Rouge and Blanc; Télégramme; Piedlong; Clos Roquète
- Style
- Red: 30–40 day vatting, 20–22 months in 60 hl foudres, unfined and unfiltered
- Website
- vieux-telegraphe.fr
Sources: Wikipedia, winewithseth.com