The 2004 Cuvee Herve is a completely different take on Chateauneuf du Pape. This shows more of the pine forest, resiny notes that come from certain sectors of Chateauneuf du Pape, with plenty of dark black currant and raspberry fruit and oodles of pepper and incense-like smells. It is an exotic, aromatic style of Chateauneuf du Pape, and the 2004 is impressively endowed. For this vintage, drink it over the next decade. These are the personal selections of Burgundy wine broker Alain Corcia. All of the wines are blends from top estates put together by Corcia, an accomplished taster as well as blender, and then aged either in foudres or in smaller barriques and bottled with very little clarification. Since he has a distribution system that directly imports from him without any middle men, prices are modest. An Alain Corcia Selection, various American importers, including Premier Wines, CA; tel. (510) 237-6284, and Calvert Woodley Wines, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 966-4400