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Saturday, August 24, 2013 - Readers should note that this blockbuster of a wine has a very big A-type personality which will lead consumers to love it or hate it. This take on what nature gave the property in 2007 is big, in your face, intense, loud and full bodied with tons of curves! If you like purist examples with minimalist winemaking practices, I would recommend shying away from this wine (and pitying your poor soul).

That said, this wine packs serious punch. Infinite amounts of Kirsche, blueberry, wild game, black licorice, rock salt and wet creekbed jump from the glass into your nose in jaw dropping concentration - quite literally filling the room. There is a bit of heat, but in such a ripe vintage to think the wine should be anything else should be considered snobbery. When it first enters your mouth, the focus achieved for the acidity is unbelievable - the delineation is remarkable (very oddly reminiscent of a 92 Leroy Vosne-Romanee). You really taste what you smell (plus a bit of wild cherry, white pepper and oak), the telltale sign of a remarkable young wine. This adolescent will require patience to achieve secondary (and could quite possibly feature dominantly tertiary olfactory) experiences. What strikes me is the burgundian delicacy and saline minerality that accompanies its power.

Given the vintage, many people will talk negatively about roasted aromatics and flavors. This is rubbish and a prime example of an opinion being wrong. The roasted charicteristics are much more a signal of the gaminess (no doubt from the high levels of Mouvedre) than a stewed characteristic of over-ripeness.

If you like to create infanticide by drinking young wines, please drink up as there is still a decent amount of baby-fat around the edges. The oak on this should dissipate (the tannin is already well-integrated) over the next 3 years or so and offer a profound experience from 2018-2030. Yes, the 2007 Beaucastel CDP should hold on for that long, if not longer for those who have the necessary patience to wait on what could one day be a legend at age 30...

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