2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rhône France Wine Tasting Note
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2001
Château de Beaucastel Hommage à Jacques Perrin (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
A true gem in the world of Grenache, the wine is simply great! Concentrated, lush, powerful, spicy, and vibrant, with layer after layer of peppery, red fruits that seem to never end. Drink from 2023-2045. 3,058 Views Tasted Feb 14, 2023Just a super wine. Decanted about an hour, this is powerful, spicy, peppery, tannic, rich and mouth-filling. The wine is long, structured and complex, with dark, deep fruits, black pepper and garrigue. Another 5 years in the bottle and this should start showing its essence at its best. 5,130 Views Tasted Feb 18, 2019Stunning in every sense of the word, this beauty is almost off the charts! The herbs, thyme, smoke, forest smells, spice and ripe, peppery black and red fruits that create the nose, can keep you busy for ages. But it is the intensity, length, purity of fruit, freshness and density that keep you coming back for more. I am sure this can age for decades. 5,436 Views Tasted Dec 15, 2017Smoked truffles is the best way to think about this wine. Still quite youthful, the wine is intense, concentrated, powerful, long, tannic and expansive. The wine takes up your entire palate, coats your teeth and gums with flavor and extract. Yet, with everything that is going on, this is elegant, refined and extremely complex. 5,650 Views Tasted Sep 14, 2016The second bottle from a case and clearly, I could have waited another 5 or more years. With 2-3 hours of air, the meaty, kirsch, garrigue, spice, pepper and wild cherry aromas began emerging. Full bodied, concentrated, long, deep and fresh, the wine creates an impression. 3,950 Views Tasted Jul 30, 2015Massive, concentrated, deep layers of perfectly ripe, dense black fruit are all over the place. This huge, structured wine is intense. The mouth feel is similar to motor oil, but with acidity. This could take 20 years to come around. 5,537 Views Tasted Nov 14, 2004 |
When to Drink Chateau Beaucastel, Anticipated Maturity, Decanting Time
Chateau Beaucastel is a much better wine with age. Young vintages can be decanted for 2-3 hours, give or take. This allows the wine to soften and open its perfume. Older vintages might need very little decanting, just enough to remove the sediment.
Chateau Beaucastel is better with 6-10 years of bottle age. Of course, that can vary slightly, depending on the vintage. In the best vintages, the wine should be consumed within 10-35 years after the vintage.
Serving Beaucastel with Wine, Food, Pairing Tips
Beaucastel is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift.
Beaucastel Rouge is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, stewed, grilled dishes, sausage, tomatoes, and cassoulet. Beaucastel Rouge is also good with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.
The white wine of Beaucastel is best served with a myriad of different seafood dishes, shellfish, crab, lobster, sushi, sashimi, chicken, pork, and veal, as well as Asian cuisine and cheese.
Other wines from the Perrin family.
The Perrin family also maintains a partnership in California with Robert Haas called Tablas Creek. Formed in 1989, the California winery focuses on producing Rhone-style wine with both red and white Rhone varietals.
In 2013, the Perrin family entered into a partnership with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to produce Miraval, an organic Rose' wine from their Provencal estate. Miraval also produces 2 white wines, a blend of Grenache Blanc and Rolle, as well as a wine from 100% Rolle. Needless to say, Miraval is now the world's most popular Rose and wine from the Cotes de Provence.
In 2015, Miraval became the first rose' as well as the first wine in the entire Provence appellation to add anti-counterfeiting measures to their bottle. To prevent the type of forgeries that anything to do with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attracts, Miraval comes in a unique curve-shaped bottle. The bottle is also etched with the word Miraval at the bottom of the bottle.
Starting with the 2009 vintage, Beaucastel became one of the first wines outside of Bordeaux to be sold on the Place de Bordeaux by Bordeaux negociants. The Perrin family also produces one of the best red and white wines from their 30 hectares of vines in the Cotes du Rhone.