Chateau de Beaucastel - Chateauneuf du Pape 2003 (3L)
Price: $600.00
Producer | Chateau de Beaucastel |
Country | France |
Region | Rhone Valley |
Subregion | Chateauneuf du Pape |
Varietal | Rhone Blend |
Vintage | 2003 |
Sku | 47530 |
Chateau de Beaucastel Description
Ruby colour with purple tinges. Intensely sweet nose with notes of raspberry jam, ripe plums, pepper, berries and sweet spices. The mouth is round and fleshy with a pleasant tannic structure and a long finish that shows acidulous fruit.
Wine Enthusiast: 95 Points
One of the big names of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and this wine justifies the fame of the Perrin family's property. It is a rich style, but, more importantly, it is beautifully made, structured, dense, with red jelly fruits, a touch of vanilla and a fat, full-bodied, but firm aftertaste. This is a wine for aging-give it at least five years before touching it.
Wine Spectator: 94 Points
Young and tight, with garrigue and roasted game aromas peeking out from a core of ripe black currant, plum and fig fruit. Lots of toast tobacco and iron as well. The finish is well-endowed with tannins, but they are ripe and pure. Best from 2008 through 2025.
Stephen Tanzer
Dark red. Vibrant raspberry, blackberry, floral and spice aromas convey impressive purity and freshness. Supple and sweet, with deep red fruit flavors, hints of floral pastille and baking spices and gentle tannins. This wine has more grenache than usual for the property, which makes it one of the most graceful (despite the hot vintage) wines I've had from the Perrins. Clean and energetic on the finish, which echoes the red fruit and floral qualities. A touch of heat takes my score down a hair, but this is Chateauneuf, after all.
Wine Advocate
The 2003 Beaucastel Chateauneuf du Pape turned out as well as I could have hoped and is certainly an outstanding wine, deep ruby/purple with a tight but promising nose of black fruits, loamy, earthy notes intermixed with pepper, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs. The wine is somewhat closed in the mouth (but it had been bottled 30 days prior to my visit), has full bodied, moderately high, slightly rustic tannins, but big-impact flavors with plenty of texture, density, and purity. Give this wine 3-5 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 20 years.
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