2007 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Cuvée Roussanne Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (86) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  3/13/2024 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Decanted for ~2+hrs before serving. Wow! It had been 6-yrs since I last had this... but boy, this is now showing much better than I recalled it to be (that slight oxidative note seemed to have further diminished)! Golden-coloured, that typically represents wines with some age... this was anything but; So fresh, despite the colour, it certainly did not taste like a wine of (its colour/age). Nice aromas of tropical fruits, nectarines, peaches that kept coming forth out of the glass. Great expansive mouthfeel & texture - waxy, almost unctous but so fresh at the same time with notes of honey, apricots, more peaches. This is now a wine of great depth, multi-layered with a long fresh finish! Very very delicious, and should continue keeping well (or even improve) for a good time to come...!

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  10/19/2023 - TheGreenFrog Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Lovely, still fresh, good concentration and length. Benefits from a decant.

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  9/3/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Popped and poured. Aromas are waxy with cream, apricot, honey, touches of marzipan/almond paste, a little almost mushroom note in the background. In the mouth it's rich, fleshy, tiny touch of bitterness, similar flavours to the nose but with the honey more to the fore, quite glycerol fatness here as well as a smidge of alcohol warmth on the finish. Probably right to tidy this up now but it is still rather lovely. And, unfortunately as this now retails in Australia at 500 AUD, this may well be one of the last times I get to try this rather wonderful wine.

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  9/1/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Interesting to see this next it's older brother the '06 (and a bit sad as we've got a bunch of '06 in our cellar but fewer '07s). This was drinking very well. Bright and fresh and honey and flowers and almost a bit on the young side. Missing any of the oxidative qualities these wines often get with age.

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  6/13/2023 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Consensus round the table was that this tastes expensive and certainly it does. A luxurious, pillowy nose of apricot and orange, marzipan, a waxy note, just a touch of vanilla. As I often do with Southern Rhone whites I found it a bit directionless on the palate - broad and soft with a touch of pithy bitterness and a little spike of alcohol. Tasty but not aligned with my taste.

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