1998 Chateauneuf du Pape, Chateau de Beaucastel (750ml)

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Vintage: 1998
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateauneuf-du-Pape
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Appellation: Chateauneuf-du-Pape
Producer: Chateau de Beaucastel
Varietal: Red Rhone Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Rhone
Sub-Region: Southern Rhone

Tasting note: The wine is medium to full-bodied, has nice, sweet tannins, and is surprisingly open and approachable. This wine has reached the beginning of its plateau of maturity, where it should last for at least a decade or more. (92pts. Robert Parker)

Tasted: Jun. 2010
Score: 92
Drink: 2010-20

Tasting note: Very youthful, with a juicy blast of red plum and fig fruit flavors on a racy frame, this also has plenty of spice, tar, plum cake and mineral in reserve, as the finish shows more structure and slowly darkens with time in the glass. Only just starting to hit its stride. (95pts. JM, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: Sep. 30, 2007
Score: 95
Drink: Now-2027

Tasting note: Saturated ruby-red. Superripe but reticent, grenache-dominated aromas of roasted plum, cherry jam, tar and humus. Fat, lush and stuffed with fruit; almost heavy today compared to the '99. But this is utterly silky and its firm underlying structure is buried by fruit and baby fat. Intriguing meat and licorice notes. A wine of superb finesse and superfine tannins. (93pts. Stephen Tanzer)

Tasted: Jan/Feb 2001
Score: 93
Drink: N/A