2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (972) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/31/2024 - Diane (LI) wrote:

  It’s been a year since my last bottle and it’s just as good. Garrique,,black olive, and black cherry. Fruit is ripe but everything else keeps it in check. A wonderful wine.

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  3/22/2024 - Coastalnative Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Excellent - At its peak but still beautiful. Drink up...

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  3/18/2024 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 91 Points

  Beaucastel Tasting Wunderbrunnen Opfikon
  
  general remarks:
  the wines are in general more on the elegant side. red berric. high acidity. almost no wood (they only use 5000+ liters „foudres“) intermixed with some spices and flowery aromas. especially the older vintages gave me some "burgundy vibes". there was some bottle variation (some oxidative bottles), especially with some warmer and better rated vintages such as 1995 and 1999…
  the younger the wines got the more similar they became and were hard to distinguish. also hard to tell where the younger vintages will end up in future. highlights were 1991 and 1996 (both 94 points).
  
  in the cellar they use as low intervention as possible. every grape gets fermented on its own. they choose oxidative or reductive ageing for each grape separately according to the characteristics of the grape.
  the chateau is owned and ran by the family perrin (7 ppl).
  
  Tasting note Beaucastel 2001:
  more cooked and ripe aromas, more masculine than the other vintages as this was a warmer vintage. red berries, but they are mature and more pinchy.
  I also found some animalic aromas in the wine.
  less elegant and fresh than the other vintages such as 1996 and 1991. I‘d go for 91 and 96 any day.
  
  on the palate more tannins, younger, and more fruit driven.
  should be held for some more years, will improve.

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  2/22/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote: 94 Points

  CellarTracker me rappelle qu'au fil des ans, entre la SAQ, Iegor et un particulier, j'ai acheté pas moins de 17 bouteilles de cette cuvée! Issu de ce qui est un de mes millésimes préférés, ce vin m'a suivi longtemps et m'a toujours plu beaucoup à travers les différentes expressions que la patine du temps lui a laissées.
  
  Cette bouteille là n'apparaissait même plus dans mon inventaire, comme une erreur de la banque en votre faveur au Monopoly.
  
  À plus de 22 ans, il est méconnaissable, paraissant léger, avec une texture délicate, aérienne, subtile et envoûtante, tellement bourguignonne! Quelle finesse! Il faut le boire sans trop tarder car ce chant du cygne en format volnaysien est d'une exquise beauté, enchanteresse.
  
  Un grand Beaucastel qui nous montre une autre facette de ses grandes qualités. 94 pts

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  2/3/2024 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points

  Previous btl was 5-1/2yrs ago. This is in a lovely resolved & healthy place! Might still improve but terrific now! Slow-oxed for 3hrs in 2 Riedel Burgs & btl b4 dinner. Served between high 50s / low 60s. Mature semi opaque mahogany red. Big, glorious nose of garrigue, mushroom, dark fruit & other harmonics out of my descriptor range. Velvety but plenty of lift keeping it from feeling too large. While most CdP no longer appeal to my Burgundy centered palate this is completely in my wheelhouse. Complex range of flavors w/ red fruit, meat, earth and more on an elegant expansive palate. Sourced locally for $60 on release and stored in temp control sense. Cork was in excellent condition. 13.5% alc is wonderful for CdP! Fantastic tonight w/ Nita's cast iron seared bone in pork chops! 1 left that I'll hang onto for a few more yrs.

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