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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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2/20/2018 - Motz wrote: 95 points

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is everything and nothing, with a few outliers. On the traditional side, Le Vieux Donjon maintains consistency of style, quality, and pleasure, even in off vintages. For ultra-modern hedonistic experiences, one need look no further than Clos Saint Jean's various offerings. Domaine du Pégaü wines fall somewhere between these two styles.

Then, there is Château de Beaucastel, and this vintage in particular. Vintage consistency with Beaucastel lies in its cleanness and its comparatively high Mourvèdre component. Otherwise, the last several vintages have presented marked variations in their youths. In recent (wine) memory, this vintage is most similar in bouquet and profile to the 2008, albeit prettier, fuller, and with more power. By comparison, the 2010 was dark and brooding, the 2011, 2012, and 2013 were taut, and showed a few angularities of youth. This vintage features a strikingly forward and inviting style.

Tasted over three days. Pulled the corked, inhaled the perfume, poured a half ounce, tasted it, decided that it did not need decanting, and left the bottle to breathe for a few hours. Bouquet of pure red sexy!!! All flavors and essences raspberry (fresh, dried, liqueurs, tea leaf, potpourri), strawberry, rhubarb, pomegranate, prickly pear, assorted red plums, and rooibos. The tartness of sweetened cranberry, lingonberry, and acerola backed all of this tangy red substance, along with green peppercorns, white pepper, and herbs. The wine also shows light, yet distinct, savory, sanguine, and mineral veins, (probably imparted by the combination of Mourvèdre and Cinsault). The wine tasted exactly as it smelled, with all elements coming forward in seductive layers. Mourvèdre-imparted gritty tannins offered a powerful expression of structure, in complete harmony with Grenache-imparted powdery tannins. Tang, with hints of sweetened tartness, showed prominently at the back and lingered through a long powdery finish. Fresh, vivacious, lifted, its open knit style entirely charming.

More of the same on the second day, the wine held its form. Perhaps surprisingly so, it had added nothing new. The third day revealed a slightly 'sweeter' wine, namely less tartness and more purple berry notes, blackberry in particular. It had also added a touch more weight, with the mineral veins more noticeable.

The one word I would us to describe this wine is: RIPE! In this way, it reminded me of the same vintage Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett. (Ultra pretty, but leaving questions of real substance, and thus, long-term aging potential.) Indeed, this three day experience left me with a few questions. Will this vintage enter the customary dumb phase? Who knows? Maybe, is my best guess. Will it add depth and interest with age? Probably, at least to a limited extent. (If it goes beyond that, hold-the-friggin'-phone!!!...as it will be amazing!) Would I bet on it achieving this level? No.

The experience also left me with a few thoughts. The wine imparts no sense of extraction, almost as if it was crafted from free run juice. Given its clean and open style, this fruit forward wine is almost fruity enough to make a blind taster wonder if it is a New World, Châteauneuf-du-Pape tribute. Several elements pull to the Old World though: overall balance, underlying savoriness, sublime minerality, and the absence of obtrusive alcohol. The most rustic element to this wine is the Mourvèdre's firmness and grip. Overall, almost impossible to not like, as it is just that pretty. This noted, the wine sort of left me hanging in that it lacked real interest factors, no hooks, if you will. 94-95.

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10/14/2022 - Motz wrote: 96 points

Slow-o for several hours, after pouring off and tasting two or three ounces. Tasted alongside a 2010 Casanova di Neri Tenuta Nuova.

Paired with seared then braised beef short ribs, in a reduction sauce, Romano smothered grits, and pan-roasted Brussels sprout halves, with minced bacon and garlic.

Tightly wound, yet inviting, upon opening. After several hours, ridiculously intoxicating! Spring and autumn flowers, bright and sweet red fruits and berries, with purple berry top notes, red fruit liqueurs, dried desert fruits, herbal teas, sweet and savory herbs, weathered clay, and red loam spill over from the glass, many of these elements seemingly driven or enhanced by Counoise. In sum, the complex expression of perfume and purity rivets the senses!

Precise and massive! The wine tastes like it smells, and changes inflection wondrously! While powerful and gripping, at no point overwhelming. Indeed, a wine of spectacular balance! The range and depth mesmerize. One of my favorite qualities with Beaucastel is the proportionately high percentage of Mourvèdre. That variety makes its presence known here, emphatically, in all the best ways. In particular, its interplay with the equal percentage Grenache, creates a resplendent harmony, which the wine deities must have handed down to mortals.

The wine paired better with the short ribs and Brussels sprouts, than the reduction and grits. A wonderful experience to shift food pairings between this and the BdM.

This vintage has always been open-knit, relative to the house style. And yet, it continues to put on weight, a hallmark of long-term cellaring potential. This bottle had at least a decade of evolution ahead of it, probably longer. Likely to peak after 2035 and hold form for several years thereafter. Improvement seems likely. 96-97.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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11/7/2019 - Motz wrote: 97 points

Tasted over three days, alongside the same vintage Coudoulet, which proved a fascinating experience. This wine offers a concentrated bouquet of herbs, spices, and exotic oils, along with deep floral perfume, and the essences of all lovely things crimson and purple. In a word: Gorgeous! The bouquet hints at striking profundity, in the form of layered rock and mineral substance. The expansive palate gives ample testament to the depth suggested by the bouquet. Red and purple fruited, noteworthy grit and grip, complex finish of exceptional length. Framed by high acid and medium tannin, deftly balanced. It deserves a long rest. As it sits, 96 points, 97 in time.

Next to the Coudoulet, this featured a reticence in line with, and indicative of, its latent substance, which allows the Coudoulet show better now. That substance is comprised of, among too many other elements to list, lightly sweetened dark chocolate, iodine, hot desert rocks, and powdery metallic ores. This puts the mind to wondering how beautifully this wine will show after 2027-2028.

Unlike the stately, seductive, and ethereal 2015, which offers red-fruited silk and velvet textures that glide across the palate, this puts the mind to the figurative equivalent of a mythical warrior goddess, who has bedded many lovers and vanquished even more.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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1/13/2024 - Motz wrote: 97 points

Drank over two days, alongside the 2015.

Strikingly purple-fruited and piercing next to the red-fruited, open-knit 2015.

Bouquet of violets, blackberry, boysenberry, red and purple root vegetables, 'sweet' herbs, pipe tobacco, backed by impressions of semi-precious stone hardness, schist, and metallic ores. These qualities put the mind to high quality Gigondas offerings, which oftentimes rival or exceed CdP, for notably lower prices. The mythical warrior goddess's perfume (per my note of 2019) entices and enthralls.

The wine tastes like it smells...wondrously so. Precise and expansive. Seductive and bracing textures throughout. Long, evocative finish.

Balanced, unique, deeply satisfying. For all its intensity, it delivers riveting pleasure as a standalone sipper (tanninphobes, however, should approach this cautiously...or not at all...for five to seven years). All elements point to maturity after 2036. 96-97.

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11/27/2020 - Motz wrote: 96 points

Over two days. Fascinating to have tasted this a few days after the notably backward 2010 vintage.

This vintage, IMO, open-knit from the outset, has remained so. As pretty and alluring as all three previous tasting experiences. Nothing at all suggested reticence.

Seductive floral elements throughout. A red berry (raspberry, lingonberry, strawberry, and acerola) puree and potpourri bouquet and taste profile grace this wine quite uniquely. The textures, supple, velvety, and gritty interplay and change-inflection with striking precision. A wine of seeming contradictions, open yet firm, compact yet expansive, suave yet robust. In all cases, the wine reveals its more deeply substantive elements as it breathes.

The whole package on the second day. The floral and berry puree elements proved knee-weakening. Wholly spectacular! Moreover, while perceptible on the first day, a plush tannin wall asserted itself, adding evermore nuance and range. Indeed, the tannin here, combined with the wine's overall forwardness, marks this as the most unique Beaucastel that I have crossed paths with.

This packs the substance to continue its evolution for seven to ten years. As previously noted, this vintage will not likely lock down. This noted, my overall experience with this bottle demands a higher score, 96, instead of 95, and further improvement seems possible.

Enjoy over the near term after decanting for several hours, or hold. Recommend drinking by 2035. The acid profile might begin a rapid decline thereafter.

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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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4/14/2019 - Motz wrote: 95 points

Tasted over three days.

Fascinating!

Evocative bouquet of assorted plums, ripe red berries (notably raspberry and lingonberry), acerola, rhubarb, flower garden, and sweet spice. Open knit palate, quite pithy, indeed, showing velour-like textures. The middle and back caress the entire palate. The only difference from last year is that the finish came off a bit clipped, which may indicate that by this vintage's standard the wine has, in its own way, shut down. Little changed on the second day, as the wine held its knee-weakening form throughout, until the modest finish.

The wine, and most notably the finish, sprang to life on the third day, pairing magically with smoked ribs, which accentuated its ripe, sweet fruit. Based on this experience, holding bottles for several years may prove highly rewarding. The quandary with doing so lies in how deeply satisfying it is now.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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9/6/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 points

It is easy to get lost in the aromatic complexities here with all the pepper, leaf, wet earth, spice, old wood, dark cherry and plum notes. On the palate, the wine is polished, deep, fresh, concentrated and sweet, Here, there is a purity and symmetry to the wine, along with a clean palate of fruits this year, that makes this a treat to taste, even at this young stage. Marc Perrin thinks this is the best wine produced here since the back to back duo of 1989 and 1990. I am sure this is better than both those pervious vintages. It is a stunning wine that deserves your attention to find a bottle and taste it. This should have the ability to age for decades.

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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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7/23/2018 - Cailles wrote: 92 points

Pulled the cork decanted it for three hours but it was not ready at all. While the wine was opening up slowly it remained only moderately enjoyable as the acidity was a bit too dominant/not well integrated. Plan was to put it back in the bottle and try it on day two. Instead it remained in the decanter for seven more hours and was then consumed over several days.

Day 3: Much improved with a medium expressive nose with dark fruits, bushes/herbs and some rather exotic spices. More open and singing on the palate with more dark fruit, dark cherries but also bright red fruit with strawberries. In addition cola, herbs, spices. Dark fruited and herbs driven finish. Medium body, medium tannins that are well integrated and very very soft, acidity still a tad too strong for my palate but overall a promising structure with a good aroma intensity.

Day 4: Still up and running. The tannins a tad softer, a slightly higher concentration and especially a slightly better integrated acidity. The wine is no longer hard to drink. That's the first day the acidity is a nice feature.

Day 6: The nose now dominated by subtle herbs, garrigue and only underneath dark fruit. No sign of oxidation. Seems more dense and packed than on the previous day which helps a lot with the acidity. On the palate dark fruit plays the first fiddle, herbs right behind it. In its finest moments the wine is smooth, silky, balanced with an almost Pinot-like finesse. But not consistently on this day.

Overall impression: It is a good wine with a nice bouquet and good level of complexity. Very fresh. Balance will certainly improve further with a better integrated acidity as aromas will become deeper and the wine denser. Nevertheless, I had not the impression that something extraordinary (97+) is in the making here but certainly something good to very good. 92 points for the drinking experiences on days 4 to 6. In these rare best moments on day 6 it was rather a 94-96 experience.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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9/7/2020 - kfrench150 Likes this wine: 95 points

Decanted for 2.5 hrs. Clear, medium dark, ruby plum red. Very enticing nose! Mashed, ripe red and black fruits, herbs (bay and fennel) and spices (nutmeg), and soft leather dominate. Full bodied and super smooth in the mouth with elevated acidity, lots of fruit extract and a warming finish from the alcohol. The flavours are again mixed dark red and black fruits (blackberry, boysenberry) with a backdrop of sweetened black tea, shredded bark and spicy oak. Pretty high tannins keep things in check. The finish is long, tangy and spicy with huge amounts of fruit and a final blast of spice and fennel seed. All the elements are starting to knit together nicely. Powerful and delectable! Easy 95 points!

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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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1/13/2024 - Motz wrote: 95 points

Over two days, alongside the 2016 vintage.

Open-knit and powerful bouquet, wholly expressive of varieties in place, particularly Mourvèdre. Red fruits, notably raspberry and lingonberry, with purple fruit top notes, dried dessert fruits, herbal teas, pure coco powder, kelp, umami, pepper, savory, herbs, iodine, and weathered iron. Layered, sophisticated, intriguing.

Bold and elegant! Juicy! Impressions of velour and flannel throughout. Intensely gripping middle and back, driven by striking tannic substance for the region. Noticed a twangy, metallic bite on the long finish, similar to that experienced with the 2012 vintage, especially next to the 2016. Food, however, masks this well.

All elements point to several additional years of evolution. It does not seem that this ever really locked down. Even when 'angry' after being awoken from slumber, two or so hours of air has set it right and allowed it to shine. Minus the finishing bite, a matter of preference compared to the '16. This wine appears to be more food loving. Improvement seems likely. 95-96.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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5/2/2023 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 points

First bottle from a five bottle lot purchased at auction in 2020. Pristine condition, gently decanted four hours in advance to soften the tannins and slightly open up the aromatic profile. It's a marvellous wine, some say the best since 1989 and 1990 and maybe even better. Beautifully crafted, everything in the right place, elegant and intense, youthful and energetic but already giving so much, sensual and structured, ripe (14.5% ABV) but refreshing, polished and harmonious, complex aromas, perfectly integrated firm structure of sandy tannins, convincing and expansive finish. Drink now - 2036.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Côtes du Rhône Coudoulet de Beaucastel

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11/7/2019 - Motz wrote: 94 points

Tasted over three days, alongside the same vintage Beaucastel. Put simply, this is stunning! It features a saturated purple berry bouquet and profile, with enthralling textural weight, backed by medium plus to high acid and luxurious powdery tannins. In addition, the wine is clean, shows sweet herbs, exotic spices, desert fruits, dark coco nibs, and rockin' (pun intended) minerality. Seamless, exceptionally long, profound balance. It held form over all three days, showing best on the second and third. It will last for at least another decade, probably longer, and it might improve. A steal!

Also noteworthy: The average pro scores of this and the main wine diverge by approximately five points...and that is just ridiculous! A two to three point divergence better expresses the quality difference. And, if tasting side by side, many will likely prefer this, as both wines sit now. Last, this is one of the rare occasions in which a JS score, typically inflated by three to six points (sometimes seven), actually hits the mark.

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6/11/2019 - Vinomane wrote: 100 points

Potential 100-point wine. The harmony and integration exceed any Chateauneuf ever tasted, including classic vintages of Beaucastel. Maybe if drunk beside the Hommage it would be downgraded to 98; we won't know for another decade-plus. Chateauneuf is a "rustic" wine in general, but not this one. And you don't even feel the 14.5% alcohol. As a bonus, it's quite possible the 2016 will never shut down, but just keep gaining complexity as time passes. Superb.

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2010 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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11/27/2020 - Motz wrote: 97 points

The same bottle Coravined in July, tasted over two days.

The most reticent Beaucastel I have tasted. Indeed, on the second day, the wine only began hinting at what it might become.

While showing effusive forward charm, this vintage delivers textbook examples of robust and strapping. The longer it breathes the more it bears out these qualities. The most relevant comparison that comes to mind is the profoundly backwards, same vintage Janasse VV.

With air, smoke, ash, smoldering campfire, and long since discarded railroad tie overgrown with mushroom and other fungi show prominently, on the bouquet and palate. In this vein, a note of botrytis-like petrol derivative also announces its presence.

Regarding fruit, the most purple and black fruit and berry oriented Beaucastel I have tasted. That is, the typical pomegranate, raspberry, and strawberry puree elements are substituted by blackcurrant, blackberry, and dark plum. Also, fig cake, date, kelp, and iodine enhance the tasting experience, all of which are matched by integral crushed black rock, black volcanic sand, and various mineral ores.

Overall, a complex enigma, which seemingly, in this vintage, argues against the established viewpoint: 'drink Beaucastel young, or at least ten years after the vintage'. This vintage might require a full two decades to reveal its underpinning substance. For my part, I regret having opened this, my only bottle, far too early. Improvement seems probable, even certain. Strongly recommend holding. 96-97...98?

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3/23/2017 - WineGuyFL Likes this wine: 96 points

I disagree from the shot group of other raters and see this one fully in line with its WA and WS ratings of 95/96. It is also very drinkable right now. Common lore suggests it will improve, but by how much? Also, I am suspicious of back end drink year estimates for this particular wine, as I had two bottles go bad almost overnight a few years back. I then noticed in the Jancis Robinson book on drink windows that this wine in certain years has a tendency to decline at the end like a rock falling off of the cliff. For those that like decadent styled CNdP, this one is for you. Start enjoying it now despite the long drink windows published by the pro reviewers.

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2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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12/31/2022 - Triforwine Likes this wine: 94 points

Special treat for New Year's Eve after dinner as alternative to Champagne.
Way too young but like all 2016 CDP, a wonderful showing. This one is less open and forward than the other '16 CDP's I've tasted but with plenty of time in the decanter, it opens up to have some wonderful aromas of sweet red fruit and some spice. Great mouthfeel with a palate that is loaded with fig and garrigue. I think this has enormous potential and while I don't regret opening this for a special occasion, it needs time. Likely to be one that will age very well. REC: HOLD at least a few more years or LONG DECANT IF DRINK SOON. 94++

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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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8/21/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 points

Peppery fruits here from start to finish. On the palate, the wine is rich and full bodied, with real depth of flavor. Balanced, concentrated and long, the freshness in the fruits with their layers of flavor, interspersed with wild herbs works. The sweet, ripe, cherry and plummy fruits seem to go on and on. There is a richness and almost exotic character in the texture this year that is a complete turn on. This will age quite nicely.

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2010 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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9/17/2016 - Sotto325 wrote: 91 points

This is the biggest Beaucastel I have tasted in 30 years. Mammoth. I hoped for some expression after pouring an 8 oz Coravin tasting, which I let breath for 1+ hour and then sipped over another 30 minutes. It did not yield. Strong, deep black and crimson color; a hint on the nose of stewed fruit and very grenache tones; some mourvedre aste but mostly tannic acid and a large body with deep deep dark cherry, wet wood, a hint of mushroom and sweet raisiny cherry fruit and a long finish. this will be a winner but needs some serious cellar time in my view. Also unsure of shippng pedigree.

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5/2/2016 - Zweder wrote: 93 points

Weekly tasting group #212; GSM: Blend or mono cepage? (@ The factory by JdB): Beautiful and complex bouquet with dark and red berries, garrigue, minerals and some pleasant rustic flavors which disappear after a while. On the palate beautiful fruits, herbs and spices, some earth, minerals, a great balance between acidity and sweetness and mild tannin with still a firm bite. This is a real beauty already, but in fact it is still much too young. Probably wise to wait until 2020 at least and it will probably drink lovely until at least the second half of the next decade. Great pleasure!

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2015 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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4/14/2019 - rlove wrote: 93 points

There's a whole cluster quality to the 2015 Beaucastel that I have not observed in previous vintages, with a perfumed, lifted nose of blue & red fruit, sweet florals, and white pepper. The palate shows some weight and extraction but again there's a whole cluster quality that gives this a light and crunchy vibe. The structure plus freshness is a hallmark of this excellent vintage but this particular wine also steps up big.

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3/1/2014 - Decanting fool wrote: NR

To put a number on a wine like this is like trying to give the universe a score. It is epic and majestic, a force of nature rarely harnessed in anything but the greatest wine. It's a work of art and it belongs outside the box of point for point comparison... Approaching this wine is like standing at the foot of a holy mountain. And it's at the very beginning of its long evolution. One of the best Beaucastels I've tasted.
I couldn't help myself and opened another bottle a week later. It really stands apart from the herd.

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6/29/2018 - Kirk Grant wrote: NR

FROM 375ML BOTTLE: This actually reminds me a lot of the 2001 back the first time I tasted it in late 2005. There's a strong note of dark fruits, spice, and manure on the nose. The palate is lush and vibrant yet also restrained as flavors of plum, clove, and blueberry linger along a medium length finish. With about an hour in the glass this is starting to open up and with food (mousse truffee) there are some black cherry notes that emerge on the palate. This is so easy to love right now, there's a tension and balance in the glass that is easy to enjoy alone or shine with food. Med+ body, med+ acidity, med tannin and a long finish lead me to think this is a wine that's showing well and enjoyable now, but will be at it's best sometime 2030+ Outstanding!!!

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7/10/2022 - D'Yquembe Mutumbo wrote: 94 points

I almost made it to 2023 like I said, but couldn't resist and popped one of these over the weekend. Glad I did, as this has made strides since last tasting. It's still young, but so much more expressive with lovely classic CdP flavors of garrigue, damp earth, blackberries, blueberry compote, and smoke. This will continue to get better.

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8/26/2019 - dbg wrote: NR

Couldn’t resist an early peek at one of my favorite Chateauneufs. Cellared since release, perfect cork and fill. Dark red, almost purple. Cherry, garrigue, and pepper on the nose, a bit reticent at first but they fill the air after 60-90 minutes. Full body, flavor profile leaning more toward Grenache than the typical Beaucastel, and while the fruit is ripe it is well-balanced with acidity and firm tannins. It never approaches the sickly sweet over-ripe Grenache that I’ve become less tolerant of. Long finish. No complexity at this young stage but it will start to show up in a decade or two. Still a pleasure to drink young. Excellent.

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12/8/2021 - dbg wrote: NR

Cellared since release, perfect cork and fill. Dark red, opaque to rim. Opens over an hour to show a robust nose of cherry, garrigue, and pepper. Full body, Grenache-centric flavors with ripe fruit but no over-ripe candy necklace sweetness I associate with over-ripe Grenache. Very well-balanced with acidity and firm tannins. Long finish. No complexity yet but still giving a lot of pleasure. Pieces in place for a lot more to come in the next 10-20 years. Excellent.

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