Edited sentence: 2006 seems to be a successfull vintage (probably just behind 2005 quality level) with a good density of fruit, a rounder mouth.Apart from this vintage, the wines have reached a level of quality that goes from very good to outstanding (1999, 2000, 2004, 1998, 2001, 2005), 2003 being quite atypic because of the very hot summer in France with a majority of wines having kept some freshness, and part of them being overriped with aging hability being a hard subject of debate.As for recent vintages, 2002 was a real disaster (600 mm of rain during the harvest).Red Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines are ageworthy as shown by the very profound wines of 1966 and 1978 or recently 1990.than the 2005 vintage wines and probably a less tannic structure