2010 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Roussanne, Vieilles Vignes, Château de Beaucastel, Rhône
- White
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Roussanne
- Robert Parker
- 97+/100
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 17+/20
- Robert Parker
- 94/100
Description
Intriguing because after five years the wine will be overtaken by somnolence and assume a dark colour and an unnerving rancio odour... only to emerge a few years later into a second childhood, seemingly fresher than ever, but with the finely-wrought wisdom of minerality etched into its persona.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer, February 2012
Beaucastel occupies an almost homogenous 100 hectare plot in the north-east zone of the appellation, the zone which is perhaps the most resistant to rapid climate change as it is the most exposed to the Mistral and has a great number of the famous pudding stones, with their capacity to regulate excess temperature over the course of a day and a night.
The reputation of the property continues to climb, its stewardship now secure in the hands of the next generation of Perrins. One of whom, the affable yet very industrious Marc, maintains that he has not seen a vintage better than 2010. For him the nearest comparisons are 1978 and 1962, the latter of which he will not have encountered personally, merely though the enviable library stock held at the property.