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2019 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge, Château de Beaucastel, Rhône

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Mourvèdre (30%),Grenache (30%),Syrah (15%),Counoise (10%),Cinsault (5%),Other Varieties (10%)
For laying down
Product: 20198007371
2019 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge, Château de Beaucastel, Rhône

Description

The most expressive Beaucastel at this early age I can recall tasting. The nose is floral, plump, succulent red and black fruits with a touch of almost apricot skin muskiness – this is really interesting. The fruit on the palate isn’t quite so expressive as you would expect, but it is velvet soft and succulent – there are no hard edges here. The finish is sappy, refined and has the gentle bite from tannin too. There is a certain sense of modernity to ’19 Beaucastel, but in the glass that trademark wildness, game meat core is revealed too. This is a multilayed, complex, serious wine.

Drink 2024 to late 2030s

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Alcohol % 14.5
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Mourvèdre (30%),Grenache (30%),Syrah (15%),Counoise (10%),Cinsault (5%),Other Varieties (10%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château de Beaucastel

About this wine

Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre, aka Monastrell in Spain, is a common blending partner of Syrah and Grenache (aka Garnacha in Spain). In Australia and California it can also appear under the name Mataro. Mourvèdre's bastion in France is Bandol, where it reigns supreme in the red blends and yielding a savoury, gamey, herby wine. It also commonly features in Southern Rhône, Languedoc & Rousillon blends.  The grape needs a warm climate to ripen fully. Its stronghold in Spain are the appellations along the south-east Mediterranean(Murcia, Jumilla, Bullas), where it produces rosé, dry red and sweet fortified wines. Monastrell has played a significant part in Spain’s vinous heritage; it nurtures wines that are deep in colour and richly tannic, sometimes overbearing in their intensity and concentration
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Chateau de Beaucastel

The Perrin family of Châteauneuf-du-Pape are one of the Rhône Valley’s greatest vineyard owners. With over 200 hectares of top level, prime vineyards at their fingertips, they have the terroir and skill required to produce some of the region’s finest wines.
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