2004 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Community Tasting Note
danielk168 wrote:
89 Points
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - Peaked around 1 hour after opening, not decanted, good but not great. Dropped rather fast after 2 hours.
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Comment posted by StefanAkiko:
12/5/2013 1:02:00 PM - CT average seems to indicate that this wine is still rather young. How do you agree with that? When do you think this wine will peak? ...or peaked?
Comment posted by danielk168:
12/6/2013 12:08:00 AM - I was quite surprised that this bottle dropped that quickly, my last bottle of Beaucastel was 94 and it lasted quite a bit. I think this could be an off bottle or poor storage.
Comment posted by StefanAkiko:
12/6/2013 11:46:00 AM - Thanks for the input and better luck with the next one.
Comment posted by danielk168:
12/6/2013 10:33:00 PM - I just came back from a 10 day visit to Kyoto which was stunningly beautiful this time of the year as usual. I used to live in Nakano-ku Tokyo and perhaps should get together sometime to share some good wine and swap tales of our stay in Japan.