2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape 1500ml, Southern Rhone

2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape 1500ml, Southern Rhone

2014 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape 375ml, Southern Rhone

2014 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape 375ml, Southern Rhone

2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape 3000ml, Southern Rhone

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99
As I signed off last year’s Southern Rhone tasting report, I declared that next year’s visit cannot come soon enough, and as I returned to my modest hotel to the north of Avignon in France in July this year, I was champing at the bit to taste the next vintage. The beautifully plush and carefully engineered 2015s had been superb, and the promise of fresh and refined 2016s had not been forgotten.
My eagerness for rating the wines this year was rewarded with all the wines tasted in the Rhone this summer. I tasted almost 500 wines while traveling through the region and I found some fabulous wines including one perfect, 100-point Chateauneuf - Château de Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin 2016 - and a 99-point counterpart in the estate’s normal bottling. Domaine du Vieux Telegraphe and Domaine de Ferrand were close by with 98-point bottlings from the same vintage. And there are hundreds of other wines rated 90 points or more.
The wines in this year’s tasting in the southern Rhone certainly did not disappoint and the apex moment of power and finesse was everything it had promised to be. The Chateauneufs 2016 are quite simply the best wines this region has seen in a very long time. The overcooked fruit, the excessive extraction and the obsession with excess seem to be over for most producers. The glory of grenache as an expressive, complex, elegant, enlivening, and powerful platform is back and long may it reign!
As Marc Perrin of Beaucastel explained to me last year while barely containing his excitement, ‘Everything is perfect in 2015 and I think 2016 is perhaps even better
Nick Stock, jamessuckling.com

2016 Chateauneuf-du-Pape checks in as a blend of 30% Mourvèdre, 30% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the rest a mix of permitted varieties.This is a stunning Beaucastel. A classic! Has a superb array of fruit, ranging from red, through to blue, darker purple and black. Nuances of dark, stony minerals, spices, wild flowers and herbs. So fleshy. This has impeccable balance, super-silky tannins and an extraordinarily long finish. This has decades ahead of it. Drink 2025-2045.
99 points Nick Stock, 27 Dec 2018, jamessuckling.com
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Product/Service Sold Out Yes
En Primeur No
New Arrivals No
Wine Type Red Wine
Country France
Region Southern Rhone
Varietals Shiraz, Grenache, Mourvedre, Counoise
Vintage 2016
Bottle Size 3000ml
Wine Points 99
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