Community Tasting Note

• rocknroller wrote: 88 points

  May 23, 2017 - A Mixed Bag at Young Joni (Young Joni, NE Mpls): Very dark red/purple color. PNP, followed 1 glass over an hour. I don't know. This was certainly a disappointment. Folks, if I wanted to drink blackberry wine, I'd go to Door County. Now this was still in a bit better place for me than the '05 VT, but it really felt overdone and over the top. I generally think Beaucastel needs 15 to 20 years anyway, but I can't say i have faith this will come around. I hope to be proven dead wrong. The word here is ripe, ok overripe, liqueurish blackberry and baked cherry, kirsch, oak, pepper. The palate is also overripe black fruits, alcohol shows through, very concentrated, anise. Obviously there are those that just love this style. For me, I crave balance and nuance, and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find in CDP.

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• oldwines commented:

  5/26/17, 5:11 AM - Couldn't agree more....shame that Beaucastel succumbed to the lure of the big parker score like most everybody else. Maybe the trend peaked in the 2005-2012 timeframe. I hope so!
  
  "oldwines" aka Dave
  
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• rocknroller commented:

  5/26/17, 2:37 PM - Me too, I've quit buying CDP with a few exceptions for the time being.

• Outplaying commented:

  5/27/17, 10:58 AM - I agree with you in general about CDP.
  
  I haven't tried the 07 Beaucastel yet, but I haven't enjoyed the 07's that I have tried. Luckily I didn't go deep in this vintage as my tastes were just starting to shift then.
  
  Now I seem to only enjoy the "off" vintages like 04, 06, 08, and 11, and even then only from Beaucastel, Pegau and Vieux Donjon.

• rocknroller commented:

  5/27/17, 11:55 AM - Agreed. I'd add Charvin and Clos des Papes to that list too. But it is still a crap shoot. I do hope we've jumped the shark and the trend goes back to old school again.

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