Gereiftes Rubinrot. Die Nase ist relativ weit entwickelt, zeigt deutliche Reifenoten, Anflüge von Oxidation, schwarze Oliven, Pflaumen, Schwarzkirschen, wilde Kräuter, auch Zartbitterschokolade, komplex, jedoch mit Luft im Glas rasch fragiler werdend. Im Gaumen zugänglich und rund, sehr feines, noch immer markantes, jedoch gut verpacktes Tannin, reife Frucht, keinerlei Alkoholüberhang. Im Abgang sehr langanhaltend, reiffruchtig und würzig. Ein Wein auf dem Peak, zeigt eine gewisse Rustikalität, entwickelt sich etwas gar rasch im Glas, hat jedoch Charme und Klasse. Ab sofort bis 2028 geniessen, nicht zu viel Luft geben (nicht dekantieren!). 93 vvPunkte
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Very dark. Plums, licorice, tar spice, dried herbs and meat stock. Power and refinement, fleshy lush palate, dark berries, dried earth and tar spice complexity, great intensity, fine furry tannins, has a delicious meaty note. Superb.
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Bold, rich and dense yet this has a refined touch. Good blend of red and black fruitedness with subtleties of earth, spice and toasted herbs. In the middle of a peak drinking window.
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Dinner with Claudia Sottimano (Chicago, IL): A very floral nose to start, with some purple fruit showing through. Never over the top, but not overly rustic either. Unmistakably a big wine, though. On the palate, this is leathery and meaty, but balanced and broad in a very old-school sort of way. Very chewy tannins still; more upside to revisiting this in a decade.
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A little past peak. Upon opening a distracting acidic rim in in the finish. Improved with some air but didn’t disappear completely. Worked well with charcuterie.
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One of the bottles I provided for a co-hosting with Mark at the City Club wine group. Poured alongside Mark’s 2012 Oakville Winegrowers mag.
En mag. I was curious to see how this showed upon opening, and it unsurprisingly needed a quick decant to blow off some funk. As a blind pour, it’s tough to get to Mourvèdre heavy in profile, but it absolutely is what makes older CdP so magical. Beautiful faint ruby in the glass. A bit leathery and maybe even a small hint of brett, but then it evolved to show potpourri, spiced red and black fruits and garrique. In the glass, the expected savory notes come out with smoked meat, gaminess, black pepper baked-rhubarb, little bit of truffle. Elegant. Good acidity. Delicious finish!
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JD Friday Wine Group - SA and MF co-host (City Club FW): Served blind - Good clarity in the glass, and lots of fruit on the nose. But lots of complexity as well, with leather, some earth/barnyard in the background. Seemed high in alcohol. The level of fruit, plus leather, led me to guess a 90s CA cab. Was served from magnum.
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Difficult to place this in CdP with its Mourvèdre forward cepage! Certainly deeply fruited and still pretty primary (from a bottle with great provenance). This needed a solid hour+ that we didn’t give it - but - it was deeply enjoyable showing poise, balance, deep fruit and spice.
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Commanderie des Costes du Rhone - Spring 2023 Kick-off (Gabriel Kruether): First impression is a bit intense and big and yet with some time in the glass it starts to integrate a bit more. These are wines that can live forever and clearly need some time and air if drinking now. With that though it's a lovely wine.
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What a wine. Mature CDP in all its glory. A beautifully meaty nose with a brilliant roundness and balance to the palate. Tannins resolved, Mourvedre is dominant, black pepper, meat, cigar, leather, a southern Rhone nose with a nuanced northern Rhone palate. Just lovely.
Thank you sir may I have another.
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Impressive, complex, baritone aroma of smoky, herby red and black cherry laced with licorice, dried florals and black tea. Palate is silky smooth and lifted with a weightless quantity to the concentrated and richly fruited fruit. In the middle of a peak window. As good as CDP gets.
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Back to the auctions (Bar Bould Sud): From a magnum. Not nearly as expressive as the 85 (not the Hommage obviously). It's elegant but quite a bit tighter. There's an impression of good things coming though.
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At 21, probably opened at least ten years too early. But, fantastic. Dark as night. Over many hours (including 5 hour decant), the nose kept evolving with a myriad of aromas and, on the palate, a near perfect balance and finish. Very youthful, still a fair amount of tannins to resolve. Truly a great wine with a great future.
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Carafed about 6 hours before drinking. Even the depot at the bottom of the bottle tasted amazing! Then accompanying some lamb chops followed by cheese, it was as close to perfection as I can think of... Relatively modest nose at first (of black fruit, chocolate, and forest in autumn). At the first sip it struck me as “perfect”: perfect balance between sweetness and acidity, perfectly silky and smooth tanins, yet present enough to guarantee another MANY years to go (and this bottle is already 20 years old...). It is soooooo complex, with notes of dark fruit jam, chocolate, coffee, and ...a hint of orange at the back of the mouth (my wife’s palate is truly amazing). And it has to be one of the looooooongest wines I have ever tasted. Definitely one of those few “wines you have to try before you die”.
CDP with Age (Nice Matin): tightly compact and thinking this needs more time, but was pretty sauve in its delivery. no rough edges, and very enjoyable.
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A bit of polish to the usual rustic Beaucastel. There is balance, soft tannins, cherries, herbs, and a long finish. Well done, and stood tall among a line up of well aged CdPs.
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From magnum; cloudy dull maroon some clarity; showing its age but holding on nicely, fully developed nose showing lots of tanned leather, dried fig, mesquite, slight BBQ sauce/hoisin, sous bois, animal, and other tertiary notes; the palate showed a touch younger still with some fight in the structure, extremely savory with balsamic notes and lightly liqueured texture and fruit, saddle leather, mineral, animal though no Brett, peppery and spicy mix on the finish; this conjured thoughts of Tempier with the complexity of Northern Rhône and the lightness and wiry frame of CDP; delicious now and ready to drink.
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Popped and poured, and drank over the next 3 hours. Great nose, but it fell flat on the palate. Tasty, but one dimensional and lacking the flavors found in other Hommage vintages.
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My last bottle and this one was drinking beautifully tonight with lots big, penetrating dark red fruit, garrigue, a hint of cocoa and some spicy black pepper. Still a massive wine, and while there are some very subtle stewed notes showing through, I think this wine has a lot of good years ahead of it.
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Decanted an hour. Dark fruit, dense, the Mourvedre showing in the mix. But balanced, with minerals and a long finish. So different than the Grenache based 2000 Pegau we had prior to this. I love this wine and seems at a peak of its window, but not near decline. A
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Hommage à Jacques Perrin Vertical (Arvino, Zurich): If you love mature, intense aged Bordeaux aromas you might like this. Although not perfectly clean, very intriguing aromatics. I liked the elegance here (and frankly, I was surprised how elegant all the wines were). Just a tad too much alcohol (or maybe the wine was just served too warm) and the ripness is on the high side. 93 points - mainly for the nice tertiary aromas.
TN: Very strong tertiar nose with barnyard, leather, black truffles, some brett - not 100% clean, slightly muddy. Underneath red fruit (but that needed some time in the glass) and herbs. Very ripe but not overripe, medium to high intensity and length. Very elegant, smooth and balanced once the overbearing first barnyard nose blew off a little. Good structure. So smooth, soft, fresh enough and well balanced.
Decant: 1 hour in the decanter seems about right to get the balance.
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Hommage à Jacques Perrin vertical tasting: Tasted as part of a Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin vertical (2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2004, 1999) with owner Matthieu Perrin hosted by Arvi in Zurich. See the tasting story intro for more bibs and bobs on the event and some feedback from Matthieu.
Dry, almost dusty at first but with a clear, linear fruit that shines through. Some decanting would clearly be advised here, although aso 1h in the glass was not enough to dust it off entirely. Also on the palate too cerllary / tertiary for my liking.
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Weekend in Napa; 7/5/2018-7/8/2018 (Napa, CA): 94+ This showed quite young. At first pour I got a touch of VA, that blew off after decanting. Fairly tight with darker red fruit, really started to open late in the evening. Hold or give it a good decant, very nice wine and great with dinner.
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Hommage a DryCab - Washington Wines release; 5/3/2018-5/5/2018 (Various spots in Walla Walla): This wine needs just a lot more time to really be what it should be. We decanted for prob 4 hours and that was prob a good start. Perhaps of all of the wines this night it was the one that evolved most in the glass. In the beginning it was just young and tight and not quite ready. After a few hours sitting out it was black fruits and spice and herbs and again that structure that makes me appreciate this wine so much. Tasty, but will hold on the other bottles.
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Den, rich, firm, mineral and structured to the degree that you could almost guess Northern Rhône - the richness gives it away, though Very young, I was guessing neuf2001 here, a long life ahead, but the drinking windows is opening My WOTN - thank you, Jan. #SøllerødKro#X-mas
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Love these wines, but this one was a good lesson. We decanted and let it sit for prob a few hours before we poured. Not enough time. The wine was fine, but nothing special at all and there was stiff competition all around. Fast forward 4-5 more hours and suddenly it was just singing in the glass. One of my favorite things about these wines are their structure. They are just so very spot on and balanced and when this hit it's sweet spot that was definitely true, but there was also just so many different flavors - violets and black fruits and brambles and maybe even truffle. It was very tasty.
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Peppery, spicy, deep, and fresh, with a compelling barnyard, garrigue, kirsch and plummy core. Good concentration of flavor, balance and freshness here, this wine is really showing well today.
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Opened, not decanted for 4 hours. The nose on this tonight was very pretty and dominated by floral notes, mostly violet and lavender, with undertones of slightly stewy, earthy, dark fruit. The palate is massive with rich, penetrating dark fruit with lots of garrigue, licorice and leather undertones. In the 4 or so years since I last tasted this, its seems to have become a little more nuanced and perhaps a bit more elegant. All in all, this was quite excellent and, to my tastes, drinking really well right now, but with all that massive, remaining structure, I think it has a very long life ahead of it.
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Decanted 30 minutes but the nose was singing right out of the bottle. Similar to my last note, the fruit is outstanding. Great wine and seems to be in the perfect spot - but holding. A
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Flickinger Warehouse Tasting (Chicago, IL): The 1999 Hommage comes off a little bit more primary than the 1989 and 1990. Of course, that's to be expected, given the ten year differential. The fruit here shows much blacker, and it seems as if that lovely perfume has yet to develop, though I can pick up nuances of it. The fruit here shows a little lighter and not as ripe, and the acidity is a touch more prominent. The animale seems to have been dialled back a little here, surprisingly. A very clean, and really delicious Châteauneuf.
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Château Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin Dinner (Vaucluse): [Magnum] Intense nose including leathers, tar, drying cranberry and cherry fruit. Big robust palate with spices. Dense black currant. Some dry balsa woods. Terrific balance. Curiously this was totally different from the 2000 and 2001, not nearly as developed or advanced.
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The wine of vintage serves up a richly textured blast of kirsch, juicy plums, garrigue and freshly cracked, black pepper. There is a generous dose of lushly textured fruit that sticks with you from start to finish. A quick splash decanting was all this needed to show well.
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Chateauneuf-du-Pape Dinner (Del Frisco - Chicago IL): Open and decanted almost 2 hours before serving. I thought it slightly hollow to start, but this filled out quickly in glass. Powerful black berries with game and leather. Very long, complex and harmonious.
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At a White Horse Tavern in the north country: I found this as the da capo wine #2 and it hit the spot, from the same source as the previous bottle, I've tasted, this came across as much more open and mature with no excessive alcohol, just richesse and local character galore and a creamy, smooth surface. While approaching maturity, this is still on the younger side ...
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captivating complex aromas of licorice, sweet black fruits, spices and mineral. Not as deep and broad compared to some other vintages, say 98/01 but the finesse and class is equal. Maturing, the tannin is almost fully resolved. Smooth and silky, finished with excellent energy.
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Dîner Rhône Sud: Un nez superbe qui évoquait le grenache (!), avec soya, épices poivre et fraises. Le vin a une texture fine et aérienne, au dévoilement je ne comprends rien! Un HJP méconnaissable, le plus mature que j'ai pris (même le 1998 est loin de cette maturité)
Très belle profondeur, style traditionnel, une minéralité, des épices, une belle complexité, de la longueur. Un grand vin droit qui porte bien haut le style du millésime. Il me semble à maturité, pour longtemps. 96 pts
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a bit thin and with funky flavors at first , the wine had very subtle secondary aroma's , really deepened out after 1.5 hours darker color , rich wine , very nice wine with age on it , not sure this wine is going anywhere soon........liked very much
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The Gilded Man (Aalborg, Denmark): Infanticide. The wine is inky and closed, non approachable. One senses greatness, but just only feel it, right now is the perfect concentration and reminds me actually most of Beaucastel 2001, when it was younger. Compared to the regular 1999'er who feels really good right now, this will require at least another five years - at least.
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This is really developed into a stunning Chateauneuf du Pape. Clearly, this is the wine of the vintage. The fruit is ripe, the texture is silky, there is weight, density and character to this spicy, peppery, earthy wine. Hommage Jacques Perrin is usually very expensive. Because this is from 1999, while not cheap, the wine sells for below its true level of quality.
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Decanted 2.5 hours. Dark, dark red color. Concentrated, dark fruits showing both on the nose and palate. Great fruit on the palate, almost showing some Northern Rhone, but in the end just a fantastic CDP that is all you would want in every respect. Still young, but the tannins are not showing and there is plenty to show with a good decant - but clear that this one has a long life ahead of it. A
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My first Hommage. Decanted for about 3 1/2 hours and was perhaps still abit tight, it didn't really start to open until the 4 or 5 hour mark. Some barnyard on the nose on opening that blew off after about an hour, leaving deep, dense, rich fruit that was more dark than red. Sweet black cherry overlaying earth and garrigue, some prune notes lurking in the backround, with licorice and leather on the finish. The tannins are well integrated but still a little on the firm side. This is a massive wine and although there are many subtleties in the flavor profile, this is, overall, not a subtle wine. Quite delicious.
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Chateau de Beaucastel Tasting with Marc Perrin (The Sampler, London): Unlike the super elegant 2000, the 99 is still very young to approach. Similar to the normal Beaucastel 99, this has an overly sweet core characteristic to the vintage and is very austere at this stage. Very deep though and has the purity and elegance expected from such a wine. Drink in 10yrs+
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Wine Dinner at 12B (Vancouver, BC): Decanted 4 hours before pouring. Deep ruby red in colour. This is a huge nose of dark cherries, plums, blackberries and black liquorice. There is a whole lot of intensity and concentration on both the nose and palate. Concentrated flavours of blueberries, black currants, cassis and black cherries with loads of structure and length. It’s amazing how this wine can be so concentration, intense and ripe, yet not be overdone, confected or over extracted in any way. My first Hommage and hopefully not my last. I would love to taste this again in 20 years when it’s not so painfully youthful. Excellent. 92+
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Unbelievably, I drank this by accident. I thought I was taking a regular 1999 Beaucastel. Ooops. Oh well. Absolutely a great bottle. What separates this from regular bottles is the combination of intensity of the fruit and the concentration which was displayed during the mid-palate and finish. There was just so much more than normal. It's just starting to develop secondary notes but still quite young in color and palate. Still a nice redish-purple color.
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1999 Hommage Perrin - Blackberry liqueur, minerals, blueberries, fresh herbs, pepper and smoke with a hint of coffee. This intense, full bodied, voluptuous wine is rich, thick, intense and mouth coating. Some tannin remains, but the wine is showing great today. This bottle offered a much better experience than when I tasted it last year. The wine finishes with a long black cherry sensation that combines power and finesse.
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Chateau Beaucastel vs Vieux Telegraph with Steven Spurrier (Handford Wines, London): Handford Wines, Beaucastel & Vieux Telegraph with Steven Spurriier, London10-Feb-10 Just emerging now and will be a suprb wine in the future (for us at the moment it is a 94 as we rate in terms of now not in terms of potential). SS called it the Latourof CdP and i think this comment sums it up. A bit of a trophy wine and hence the price tag. We would rather spend the money on aged CdP like the 1990 Beaucastel..
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Deep garnet. Brooding nose and mouth that took a long time to slowly open up. I think this gave just a hint of the joys to come, but I keep coming back to this because each time there was something else to find.
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Château de Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin Vertical with Marc Perrin (San Francisco CA): Aromas of black cherry, boysenberry, anise, black pepper, and cloves. Moderately ripe fruit with great acidity, elegant tannins and nuanced textures. Really evolving finish with excellent complexity. Fascinating contrast with the 1998 vintage also tasted. Half the table preferred each, with the two vintages showcasing different Chateauneuf strengths in more lush (98) vs. lean vintages (99).
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A Super-Rhone Dinner (Naha in Chicago, IL): Super funky, young Mourvedre nose . Sweaty and mint-laced with rich black fruits. Well-spiced and with great midpalate weight for the vintage. Some vanilla notes with fine tannin and good length. A superb wine, but not better, or with more or significantly different character than the best vintages of the regular cuvee.
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Huge, packed and stacked but perfectly balanced. Black and red fruit, earth, gunpowder and herbs scream from the glass. Layers of fruit take over your palate. The long red fruit filled finsh is a pleasure.
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Tight. With much coaxing, begging and pleading the darkly colored wine offered scents of black fruit, chocolate, licorice, earth and toffee. Some green notes appear in the finish. This needs a lot of time.
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3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 93 Points
Gereiftes Rubinrot. Die Nase ist relativ weit entwickelt, zeigt deutliche Reifenoten, Anflüge von Oxidation, schwarze Oliven, Pflaumen, Schwarzkirschen, wilde Kräuter, auch Zartbitterschokolade, komplex, jedoch mit Luft im Glas rasch fragiler werdend. Im Gaumen zugänglich und rund, sehr feines, noch immer markantes, jedoch gut verpacktes Tannin, reife Frucht, keinerlei Alkoholüberhang. Im Abgang sehr langanhaltend, reiffruchtig und würzig. Ein Wein auf dem Peak, zeigt eine gewisse Rustikalität, entwickelt sich etwas gar rasch im Glas, hat jedoch Charme und Klasse. Ab sofort bis 2028 geniessen, nicht zu viel Luft geben (nicht dekantieren!). 93 vvPunkte
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11/19/2023 - Francophile1 wrote: flawed
Thanksgiving Mondo Dinner 2023 (Atlanta, GA): Sadly this was corked.
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11/18/2023 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 97 Points
Very dark.
Plums, licorice, tar spice, dried herbs and meat stock.
Power and refinement, fleshy lush palate, dark berries, dried earth and tar spice complexity, great intensity, fine furry tannins, has a delicious meaty note. Superb.
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9/26/2023 - Nanda wrote: 95 Points
Bold, rich and dense yet this has a refined touch. Good blend of red and black fruitedness with subtleties of earth, spice and toasted herbs. In the middle of a peak drinking window.
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9/26/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Dinner with Claudia Sottimano (Chicago, IL): A very floral nose to start, with some purple fruit showing through. Never over the top, but not overly rustic either. Unmistakably a big wine, though. On the palate, this is leathery and meaty, but balanced and broad in a very old-school sort of way. Very chewy tannins still; more upside to revisiting this in a decade.
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6/4/2023 - danckie wrote: 91 Points
A little past peak. Upon opening a distracting acidic rim in in the finish. Improved with some air but didn’t disappear completely. Worked well with charcuterie.
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4/19/2023 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 94 Points
One of the bottles I provided for a co-hosting with Mark at the City Club wine group. Poured alongside Mark’s 2012 Oakville Winegrowers mag.
En mag. I was curious to see how this showed upon opening, and it unsurprisingly needed a quick decant to blow off some funk. As a blind pour, it’s tough to get to Mourvèdre heavy in profile, but it absolutely is what makes older CdP so magical. Beautiful faint ruby in the glass. A bit leathery and maybe even a small hint of brett, but then it evolved to show potpourri, spiced red and black fruits and garrique. In the glass, the expected savory notes come out with smoked meat, gaminess, black pepper baked-rhubarb, little bit of truffle. Elegant. Good acidity. Delicious finish!
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4/14/2023 - Gregmonroe wrote:
JD Friday Wine Group - SA and MF co-host (City Club FW): Served blind - Good clarity in the glass, and lots of fruit on the nose. But lots of complexity as well, with leather, some earth/barnyard in the background. Seemed high in alcohol. The level of fruit, plus leather, led me to guess a 90s CA cab. Was served from magnum.
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3/19/2023 - Andyrodriguez87 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Difficult to place this in CdP with its Mourvèdre forward cepage! Certainly deeply fruited and still pretty primary (from a bottle with great provenance). This needed a solid hour+ that we didn’t give it - but - it was deeply enjoyable showing poise, balance, deep fruit and spice.
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1/17/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Commanderie des Costes du Rhone - Spring 2023 Kick-off (Gabriel Kruether): First impression is a bit intense and big and yet with some time in the glass it starts to integrate a bit more. These are wines that can live forever and clearly need some time and air if drinking now. With that though it's a lovely wine.
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10/3/2022 - TONOFBRIX Likes this wine: 96 Points
What a wine. Mature CDP in all its glory. A beautifully meaty nose with a brilliant roundness and balance to the palate. Tannins resolved, Mourvedre is dominant, black pepper, meat, cigar, leather, a southern Rhone nose with a nuanced northern Rhone palate. Just lovely.
Thank you sir may I have another.
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8/21/2022 - Nanda wrote:
Impressive, complex, baritone aroma of smoky, herby red and black cherry laced with licorice, dried florals and black tea. Palate is silky smooth and lifted with a weightless quantity to the concentrated and richly fruited fruit. In the middle of a peak window. As good as CDP gets.
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10/15/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Back to the auctions (Bar Bould Sud): From a magnum. Not nearly as expressive as the 85 (not the Hommage obviously). It's elegant but quite a bit tighter. There's an impression of good things coming though.
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10/15/2021 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Magnum. Sweet, ripe, cherry, licorice. Nicely toned with the heat. 93-94
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12/12/2020 - jsebiri wrote:
Special after about 3-4 hours open , well aged , well done.
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5/22/2020 - cadamson Likes this wine:
At 21, probably opened at least ten years too early. But, fantastic. Dark as night. Over many hours (including 5 hour decant), the nose kept evolving with a myriad of aromas and, on the palate, a near perfect balance and finish. Very youthful, still a fair amount of tannins to resolve. Truly a great wine with a great future.
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12/7/2019 - Bruno DALBIEZ Likes this wine: 99 Points
Carafed about 6 hours before drinking. Even the depot at the bottom of the bottle tasted amazing! Then accompanying some lamb chops followed by cheese, it was as close to perfection as I can think of... Relatively modest nose at first (of black fruit, chocolate, and forest in autumn). At the first sip it struck me as “perfect”: perfect balance between sweetness and acidity, perfectly silky and smooth tanins, yet present enough to guarantee another MANY years to go (and this bottle is already 20 years old...). It is soooooo complex, with notes of dark fruit jam, chocolate, coffee, and ...a hint of orange at the back of the mouth (my wife’s palate is truly amazing). And it has to be one of the looooooongest wines I have ever tasted. Definitely one of those few “wines you have to try before you die”.
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11/13/2019 - lolo66 wrote: 94 Points
CDP with Age (Nice Matin): tightly compact and thinking this needs more time, but was pretty sauve in its delivery. no rough edges, and very enjoyable.
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11/13/2019 - Diane (LI) wrote:
A bit of polish to the usual rustic Beaucastel. There is balance, soft tannins, cherries, herbs, and a long finish. Well done, and stood tall among a line up of well aged CdPs.
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11/7/2019 - Rezy13 Likes this wine:
From magnum; cloudy dull maroon some clarity; showing its age but holding on nicely, fully developed nose showing lots of tanned leather, dried fig, mesquite, slight BBQ sauce/hoisin, sous bois, animal, and other tertiary notes; the palate showed a touch younger still with some fight in the structure, extremely savory with balsamic notes and lightly liqueured texture and fruit, saddle leather, mineral, animal though no Brett, peppery and spicy mix on the finish; this conjured thoughts of Tempier with the complexity of Northern Rhône and the lightness and wiry frame of CDP; delicious now and ready to drink.
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7/22/2019 - europat55 wrote: 95 Points
Nose: A-/A Palate: A-/A
My #2, Group's #8 (66 pts). Tasted blind.
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3/22/2019 - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Likes this wine: 90 Points
Popped and poured, and drank over the next 3 hours. Great nose, but it fell flat on the palate. Tasty, but one dimensional and lacking the flavors found in other Hommage vintages.
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3/22/2019 - SonnyChiba wrote: 89 Points
Hmmm....really wanted to like this more but didn’t find myself coming back for more. One dimensional, and very mediocre overall.
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12/16/2018 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 94 Points
My last bottle and this one was drinking beautifully tonight with lots big, penetrating dark red fruit, garrigue, a hint of cocoa and some spicy black pepper. Still a massive wine, and while there are some very subtle stewed notes showing through, I think this wine has a lot of good years ahead of it.
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12/1/2018 - MC wrote:
Decanted an hour. Dark fruit, dense, the Mourvedre showing in the mix. But balanced, with minerals and a long finish. So different than the Grenache based 2000 Pegau we had prior to this. I love this wine and seems at a peak of its window, but not near decline. A
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9/8/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points
Chateau Beaucastel, Hommage à Jacques Perrin vertical (Zurich): Distinctively tertiary nose with leather, tobacco, sous-bois, farmyard. The tannin are mature and soft on the palate. Long finish.
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9/6/2018 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points
Hommage à Jacques Perrin Vertical (Arvino, Zurich): If you love mature, intense aged Bordeaux aromas you might like this. Although not perfectly clean, very intriguing aromatics. I liked the elegance here (and frankly, I was surprised how elegant all the wines were). Just a tad too much alcohol (or maybe the wine was just served too warm) and the ripness is on the high side. 93 points - mainly for the nice tertiary aromas.
TN: Very strong tertiar nose with barnyard, leather, black truffles, some brett - not 100% clean, slightly muddy. Underneath red fruit (but that needed some time in the glass) and herbs. Very ripe but not overripe, medium to high intensity and length. Very elegant, smooth and balanced once the overbearing first barnyard nose blew off a little. Good structure. So smooth, soft, fresh enough and well balanced.
Decant: 1 hour in the decanter seems about right to get the balance.
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9/5/2018 - sirpat00 wrote: 91 Points
Hommage à Jacques Perrin vertical tasting: Tasted as part of a Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin vertical (2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2004, 1999) with owner Matthieu Perrin hosted by Arvi in Zurich. See the tasting story intro for more bibs and bobs on the event and some feedback from Matthieu.
Dry, almost dusty at first but with a clear, linear fruit that shines through. Some decanting would clearly be advised here, although aso 1h in the glass was not enough to dust it off entirely. Also on the palate too cerllary / tertiary for my liking.
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7/6/2018 - Vinophiliac559 wrote: 94 Points
Weekend in Napa; 7/5/2018-7/8/2018 (Napa, CA): 94+ This showed quite young. At first pour I got a touch of VA, that blew off after decanting. Fairly tight with darker red fruit, really started to open late in the evening. Hold or give it a good decant, very nice wine and great with dinner.
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5/3/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Hommage a DryCab - Washington Wines release; 5/3/2018-5/5/2018 (Various spots in Walla Walla): This wine needs just a lot more time to really be what it should be. We decanted for prob 4 hours and that was prob a good start. Perhaps of all of the wines this night it was the one that evolved most in the glass. In the beginning it was just young and tight and not quite ready. After a few hours sitting out it was black fruits and spice and herbs and again that structure that makes me appreciate this wine so much. Tasty, but will hold on the other bottles.
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12/2/2017 - beatles wrote: 96 Points
Den, rich, firm, mineral and structured to the degree that you could almost guess Northern Rhône - the richness gives it away, though
Very young, I was guessing neuf2001 here, a long life ahead, but the drinking windows is opening
My WOTN - thank you, Jan.
#SøllerødKro#X-mas
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10/27/2017 - Frank Schneider wrote: 93 Points
Smooth and mature CdP . But lacking the structrure and body i expect from this cuvee. Dump bottle ?? Worth the money ??? Doubt it
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6/24/2017 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Love these wines, but this one was a good lesson. We decanted and let it sit for prob a few hours before we poured. Not enough time. The wine was fine, but nothing special at all and there was stiff competition all around. Fast forward 4-5 more hours and suddenly it was just singing in the glass. One of my favorite things about these wines are their structure. They are just so very spot on and balanced and when this hit it's sweet spot that was definitely true, but there was also just so many different flavors - violets and black fruits and brambles and maybe even truffle. It was very tasty.
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5/30/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Peppery, spicy, deep, and fresh, with a compelling barnyard, garrigue, kirsch and plummy core. Good concentration of flavor, balance and freshness here, this wine is really showing well today.
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5/27/2017 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 94 Points
Opened, not decanted for 4 hours. The nose on this tonight was very pretty and dominated by floral notes, mostly violet and lavender, with undertones of slightly stewy, earthy, dark fruit. The palate is massive with rich, penetrating dark fruit with lots of garrigue, licorice and leather undertones. In the 4 or so years since I last tasted this, its seems to have become a little more nuanced and perhaps a bit more elegant. All in all, this was quite excellent and, to my tastes, drinking really well right now, but with all that massive, remaining structure, I think it has a very long life ahead of it.
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10/16/2016 - MC wrote:
Decanted 30 minutes but the nose was singing right out of the bottle. Similar to my last note, the fruit is outstanding. Great wine and seems to be in the perfect spot - but holding. A
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9/10/2016 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Flickinger Warehouse Tasting (Chicago, IL): The 1999 Hommage comes off a little bit more primary than the 1989 and 1990. Of course, that's to be expected, given the ten year differential. The fruit here shows much blacker, and it seems as if that lovely perfume has yet to develop, though I can pick up nuances of it. The fruit here shows a little lighter and not as ripe, and the acidity is a touch more prominent. The animale seems to have been dialled back a little here, surprisingly. A very clean, and really delicious Châteauneuf.
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4/19/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
Château Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin Dinner (Vaucluse): [Magnum] Intense nose including leathers, tar, drying cranberry and cherry fruit. Big robust palate with spices. Dense black currant. Some dry balsa woods. Terrific balance. Curiously this was totally different from the 2000 and 2001, not nearly as developed or advanced.
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4/19/2016 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Hommage a Jacques Perrin (and what an Hommage it was!) (Vaucluse (short trip to Aldo Sohm to finish the night)): Figs, decent tannins, quicker finish than some of the others, but very approachable right now. It was very good and showing better than the '98 which surprised me, but not quite as good as the '95.
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3/23/2016 - canan wrote: 97 Points
BYO Easter (Birkerød): Huge wine. Loved it.
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3/2/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
The wine of vintage serves up a richly textured blast of kirsch, juicy plums, garrigue and freshly cracked, black pepper. There is a generous dose of lushly textured fruit that sticks with you from start to finish. A quick splash decanting was all this needed to show well.
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2/2/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Chateauneuf-du-Pape Dinner (Del Frisco - Chicago IL): Open and decanted almost 2 hours before serving. I thought it slightly hollow to start, but this filled out quickly in glass. Powerful black berries with game and leather. Very long, complex and harmonious.
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1/3/2016 - MC wrote:
Popped and poured. Outstanding concentration, balance and length. In a great spot but holding strong. A
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11/10/2015 - mwanasheria Likes this wine: 95 Points
Rich, perfumed, quite youthful. Gorgeous fruit, tight tannins. Really good.
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7/8/2015 - beatles Likes this wine: 95 Points
At a White Horse Tavern in the north country: I found this as the da capo wine #2 and it hit the spot, from the same source as the previous bottle, I've tasted, this came across as much more open and mature with no excessive alcohol, just richesse and local character galore and a creamy, smooth surface. While approaching maturity, this is still on the younger side ...
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7/1/2015 - Topper wrote: 92 Points
Explosive flavors, mostly plum and prune with a slight roasted character and a hint of barnyard. Impressive but not fabulous.
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6/27/2015 - McKraftyWino wrote: flawed
corked!
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9/23/2014 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
captivating complex aromas of licorice, sweet black fruits, spices and mineral. Not as deep and broad compared to some other vintages, say 98/01 but the finesse and class is equal. Maturing, the tannin is almost fully resolved. Smooth and silky, finished with excellent energy.
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9/20/2014 - canan wrote: 91 Points
Chateauneuf Du Pape 1990 Horisontal (@Terkel): A bit strange and perhaps a little bit off.
The wine does however seem fine and in balance but with an excess alcohol.
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4/30/2014 - mwanasheria wrote: 95 Points
Nose of strawberries, herbs, spices. Quite elegant and balanced with spices, kirsch, tar, minerals. Great.
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3/20/2014 - dcwino wrote: flawed
Rhone gathering - 08 Rayas, 85 and 89 La Las (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): TCA tainted but the great material is definitely there.
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3/20/2014 - BinVA wrote: flawed
Corked
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3/20/2014 - pakabear wrote: flawed
Night with the boyz at Capella (Capella): This was mildly corked unfortunately, a HUGE disappointment.
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3/20/2014 - madeiradog wrote: flawed
Argh! Corked...
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2/28/2014 - d'Artagnan wrote: 96 Points
Dîner Rhône Sud: Un nez superbe qui évoquait le grenache (!), avec soya, épices poivre et fraises. Le vin a une texture fine et aérienne, au dévoilement je ne comprends rien! Un HJP méconnaissable, le plus mature que j'ai pris (même le 1998 est loin de cette maturité)
Très belle profondeur, style traditionnel, une minéralité, des épices, une belle complexité, de la longueur. Un grand vin droit qui porte bien haut le style du millésime. Il me semble à maturité, pour longtemps. 96 pts
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11/26/2013 - jsebiri wrote:
a bit thin and with funky flavors at first , the wine had very subtle secondary aroma's , really deepened out after 1.5 hours darker color , rich wine , very nice wine with age on it , not sure this wine is going anywhere soon........liked very much
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11/23/2013 - beatles wrote:
The Gilded Man (Aalborg, Denmark): Infanticide. The wine is inky and closed, non approachable. One senses greatness, but just only feel it, right now is the perfect concentration and reminds me actually most of Beaucastel 2001, when it was younger. Compared to the regular 1999'er who feels really good right now, this will require at least another five years - at least.
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11/22/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
This is really developed into a stunning Chateauneuf du Pape. Clearly, this is the wine of the vintage. The fruit is ripe, the texture is silky, there is weight, density and character to this spicy, peppery, earthy wine. Hommage Jacques Perrin is usually very expensive. Because this is from 1999, while not cheap, the wine sells for below its true level of quality.
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5/12/2013 - MC wrote:
Decanted 2.5 hours. Dark, dark red color. Concentrated, dark fruits showing both on the nose and palate. Great fruit on the palate, almost showing some Northern Rhone, but in the end just a fantastic CDP that is all you would want in every respect. Still young, but the tannins are not showing and there is plenty to show with a good decant - but clear that this one has a long life ahead of it. A
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4/7/2013 - mmcdds Likes this wine: 95 Points
My first Hommage. Decanted for about 3 1/2 hours and was perhaps still abit tight, it didn't really start to open until the 4 or 5 hour mark. Some barnyard on the nose on opening that blew off after about an hour, leaving deep, dense, rich fruit that was more dark than red. Sweet black cherry overlaying earth and garrigue, some prune notes lurking in the backround, with licorice and leather on the finish. The tannins are well integrated but still a little on the firm side. This is a massive wine and although there are many subtleties in the flavor profile, this is, overall, not a subtle wine. Quite delicious.
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10/28/2011 - KingSlacker999 wrote: flawed
Corked, ARGH!!!
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10/28/2011 - manonthemoon wrote: flawed
flawed
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10/28/2011 - tooch wrote: flawed
Leaving DC Dinner (Ripple - Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C.): Sadly corked.
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4/4/2011 - Rani wrote: flawed
Tasted blind. Was corked...
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2/22/2011 - Papies wrote: 94 Points
Chateau de Beaucastel Tasting with Marc Perrin (The Sampler, London): Unlike the super elegant 2000, the 99 is still very young to approach. Similar to the normal Beaucastel 99, this has an overly sweet core characteristic to the vintage and is very austere at this stage. Very deep though and has the purity and elegance expected from such a wine. Drink in 10yrs+
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2/9/2011 - godx wrote: 92 Points
Wine Dinner at 12B (Vancouver, BC): Decanted 4 hours before pouring. Deep ruby red in colour. This is a huge nose of dark cherries, plums, blackberries and black liquorice. There is a whole lot of intensity and concentration on both the nose and palate. Concentrated flavours of blueberries, black currants, cassis and black cherries with loads of structure and length. It’s amazing how this wine can be so concentration, intense and ripe, yet not be overdone, confected or over extracted in any way. My first Hommage and hopefully not my last. I would love to taste this again in 20 years when it’s not so painfully youthful. Excellent. 92+
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10/21/2010 - Montecalvo wrote: 97 Points
Unbelievably, I drank this by accident. I thought I was taking a regular 1999 Beaucastel. Ooops. Oh well. Absolutely a great bottle. What separates this from regular bottles is the combination of intensity of the fruit and the concentration which was displayed during the mid-palate and finish. There was just so much more than normal. It's just starting to develop secondary notes but still quite young in color and palate. Still a nice redish-purple color.
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9/20/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
1999 Hommage Perrin - Blackberry liqueur, minerals, blueberries, fresh herbs, pepper and smoke with a hint of coffee. This intense, full bodied, voluptuous wine is rich, thick, intense and mouth coating. Some tannin remains, but the wine is showing great today. This bottle offered a much better experience than when I tasted it last year. The wine finishes with a long black cherry sensation that combines power and finesse.
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2/10/2010 - Papies wrote: 94 Points
Chateau Beaucastel vs Vieux Telegraph with Steven Spurrier (Handford Wines, London): Handford Wines, Beaucastel & Vieux Telegraph with Steven Spurriier, London10-Feb-10
Just emerging now and will be a suprb wine in the future (for us at the moment it is a 94 as we rate in terms of now not in terms of potential). SS called it the Latourof CdP and i think this comment sums it up.
A bit of a trophy wine and hence the price tag. We would rather spend the money on aged CdP like the 1990 Beaucastel..
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11/12/2009 - Harry Cantrell wrote: 95 Points
Deep garnet. Brooding nose and mouth that took a long time to slowly open up. I think this gave just a hint of the joys to come, but I keep coming back to this because each time there was something else to find.
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10/7/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Château de Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin Vertical with Marc Perrin (San Francisco CA): Aromas of black cherry, boysenberry, anise, black pepper, and cloves. Moderately ripe fruit with great acidity, elegant tannins and nuanced textures. Really evolving finish with excellent complexity. Fascinating contrast with the 1998 vintage also tasted. Half the table preferred each, with the two vintages showcasing different Chateauneuf strengths in more lush (98) vs. lean vintages (99).
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5/6/2006 - psmith wrote: 93 Points
A Super-Rhone Dinner (Naha in Chicago, IL): Super funky, young Mourvedre nose . Sweaty and mint-laced with rich black fruits. Well-spiced and with great midpalate weight for the vintage. Some vanilla notes with fine tannin and good length. A superb wine, but not better, or with more or significantly different character than the best vintages of the regular cuvee.
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8/12/2005 - Eric wrote:
43 bottles of Château Beaucastel with Bob Parker (Mark's Duck House, Falls Church, VA): Poured in tough company. A nice wine and a big step up from the regular 1999 bottling.
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7/12/2005 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Huge, packed and stacked but perfectly balanced. Black and red fruit, earth, gunpowder and herbs scream from the glass. Layers of fruit take over your palate. The long red fruit filled finsh is a pleasure.
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10/28/2004 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
Tight. With much coaxing, begging and pleading the darkly colored wine offered scents of black fruit, chocolate, licorice, earth and toffee. Some green notes appear in the finish. This needs a lot of time.
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