Community Tasting Note

• Marc wrote: 98 points

  March 23, 2024 - Celebrating Again! (Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand): Absolutely a point at the moment. This is the essence of the Beaucastel style, and is an untimate expression of the heights Mouvedre can achieve. While still tannic and rustic, the bottle has clearly reached a stage of maturity that combines extreme bottle age complexity with vibrant fruit. Wet tree-bark notes combine with black berry fruit, leather, undergrowth, mushroom, moss, earth, hung game, and provencal herbs. Beautiful modulated finish. This is clearly one of the great wines of the South of France. It is a poster child for what John Gillman writes about when he talks about the transparency to the soil that Beaucastel can develop with a couple of ecades or more of bottle age. Drink or give it another decade to send it into the "old bones" stage, only reserved for the greatest of wines. This (and most of the other wines opened over the weekend) amply demonstrate what can be achieved by cellaring age-worthy wine.

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