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    3/15/2024 - wrote: 94 Points

    Opened, had a taste, and served about 40 minutes later.
    Tasted with food (porcini risotto and grilled steak and lambchop, in case you were wondering).
    Tasted on its own.
    Tasted at a dinner with 2016 Saxum G2, 2007 Donaine LaleurePuot Corton Rognet and 2012 Calera Jensen Vineyard Pinot Noir.
    Dark garnet color.
    Nose offers leaves, cedar, leather and dried cherries.
    Wonderful dried red fruit profile with leather, dried tobacco and earth.
    Clean in that there is no Brett or funky manure/barnyard elemnt..
    Wonderful depth and elegance.
    Please but also a bit surprised how good this is with 34 years of age.
    Delicious.

    13.5% abv.
    Used a Durand to extract the cork. Cork was saturated 3/4 up.
    Paired well with the mushroom risotto.

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    3/11/2024 - Likes this wine: 98 Points

    Décanté une heure avant consommation.Robe évoluée,nez d'une intensité exceptionnelle et d'une complexité magique:on débute avec de la réglisse puis on évolue tour à tour sur des fruits rouges puis noirs,de la garrigue,des épices.C'est réellement splendide !!! La bouche confirme le diagnostic:c'est soyeux,suave,magique.On est plus sur les notes épicées qu'au nez.Longueur magnifique.Incontestablement une très grande bouteille....

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    3/2/2024 - Likes this wine:

    Two couples to dinner at the farm: PnP and allowed to open in the glass, with significant evolution over time. Translucent colour. Nose initially strong on menthol and barnyard, split the party between those who loved it and those who coulnd't bear it. Plalate surprisingly high-energy, still plenty to give and plenty going on, smoke and cured meat and dark fruits and herbs.

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    2/23/2024 - wrote: 94 Points

    T's 45th Birthday (Søllerød Kro): From magnum. Red currant and raspberry fruit but it is difficult to find behind the very "animalistic" style of the wine. The wine simply explodes with perfume and flavors of wet fur, barnyard and grilled mushrooms.
    It is certainly not a wine for everybody due to the very animalistic notes :-) There is plenty of spicyness and a decent aftertaste. I loved it a lot but there were some discussions around the table where some were claiming that it was corked. I did not find anything wrong with the bottle but simply claim that an old Beaucastel is simply a very special wine :-)

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    2/21/2024 - wrote: 97 Points

    Celebrating Todd's Milestone Bday (The Milling Room - NYC): First bottle of the evening, this one in my cellar for about 12 years. Great fill, high neck, cork came out clean. Decanted for about 45 minutes prior to drinking. Had been somewhat concerned it might develop too quickly and rollover...not a problem with this bottle. Was ready to go and lasted/evolved throughout the evening.

    Translucent red/purple plum color. Nose showing some barnyard to start that blew off, moving to dusted red fruits, black cherry, cinnamon, sous bois. Palate of old cherry, pomegranate, baking spice, balsamic and garrigue. Silky and elegant texture, and nice persistence of plum/cherry through the mid palate. Medium weight and finish.

    This was the star of the show on this evening. This one seems like it has life in it, well stored bottes are great now but not likely to improve (IMO). WOTN for both of us

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  • By Richard Jennings
    10/30/2015, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 94 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Bricking very dark red violet color; mature, dried berry, dried cherry, baked cherry, anise, spice nose; rich, tasty, mature, dried berry, dried cherry, baked cherry, licorice palate with less acidity than the 1989; medium-plus finish 94+ points

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    2/7/2014, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 94 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Bricked medium red violet color; mature, licorice, dried berry, talc, raspberry preserves, brett nose; mature, tasty, raspberry jam, dried berry, anise, garrigue palate; long finish 94+ points

  • By Richard Jennings
    2/1/2011, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 95 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Group's #2 (my #3) – 80 pts.; 4, 2, 3, 2 - bricking medium red violet color with thin clear meniscus; ethereal, sweet smoke, dried cherry, dried berry, spice box nose; tasty, ripe, hedonistic, dried berry, tart chocolate, charcoal, sweet tobacco palate; medium-plus finish 95+ points (easily guessed it as '90 Beau in this blindtasting)

  • By Richard Jennings
    3/20/2009, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 95 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Bricking light medium red color with pale meniscus; sexy, lavender, brett, bramble, lamb jus, smoke and roasted meat nose; tasty, brett, tart red fruit, bramble, horseradish, pepper and mushroom palate; medium-plus finish 95+ pts.

  • By Richard Jennings
    12/12/2008, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) From magnum - medium cherry red color with clarity and pale meniscus; gorgeous garrigue, liquid pepper, smokehouse smoke nose; great, youthful tart cherry, garrigue and white pepper palate, with depth and soul; medium-plus finish 96+ pts.

  • By Richard Jennings
    11/25/2008, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 92 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Group's #3 (my #6) – 68 pts; 2, 1, 2, 1 – Lightest in color of the bunch, light medium red with pale meniscus; funky, barnyard and tart plum nose; tasty, tart plum, garrigue and mineral palate; medium finish 92+ pts.

  • By Richard Jennings
    6/12/2008, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 95 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Sweet cherry, baked cherry and vanilla nose; deep, tasty and youthful tart cherry and strawberry palate; medium-plus finish

  • By Richard Jennings
    2/8/2008, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Dark brick red color with pale meniscus; gorgeous, mature, truffle nose; very tasty, wonderful mature CdP, with tart lamb jus and plum; medium-plus finish (WOTF)

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    9/19/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Slightly cloudy garnet red color; slightly horsy nose, with mushroom, borscht, autumn leaves and herbs; tasty, wonderful, elegant kirsch fruit; long finish 96+ pts (4 votes, including mine, for WOTF)

  • By Richard Jennings
    4/17/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 97 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Lovely cherry, and Kirsch nose; gorgeous, rich, cherry, plum, black fruit, beef and fig palate; long finish

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    4/30/2004, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Black fruit, caramel nose; lovely, very expressive and developed, meaty, beefy palate; long finish

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    3/5/2004, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 95 points

    (Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Mature, cherry, caramel nose; tasty, mature, eucalyptus, strawberry, cherry, borscht palate; medium finish

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