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2000 Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Chateau de Beaucastel (750ml)
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Vintage: 2000
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
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Tasting note: Clean and fresh, bursting with fruit and spices. Full-bodied, it delivers some game, truffle, vanilla notes. It's distinctive and ought to reveal wonderful terroir with age, but for now it hasn't come together. Needs time. Drink now through 2020. 16,665 cases made. (90pts. PM, Wine Spectator)
Tasted: Aug. 31, 2003
Score: 90
Drink: 2003-20
Tasting note: The opaque ruby/purple-colored 2000 Chateauneuf du Pape offers a profoundly sweet perfume of melted licorice, blackberries, and black cherries backed up by loads of glycerin, full body, and moderately high but sweet, well-integrated tannin. There is a seamlessness to the 2000 that will make it accessible early in life, and thus atypical for Beaucastel. The 1985 behaved in this manner when young, but the 2000 possesses even more stuffing. Like its 2001 sibling, it is a classic blend of 30% Grenache, 30% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the balance other permitted varietals. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2025. (94pts. Robert Parker)
Tasted: Feb. 2003
Score: 94
Drink: 2007-25
Tasting note: Red-ruby. Roasted aromas of black fruits, leather, maple syrup and mocha. Initially a bit tight on the palate, but showed a lush, seamless texture as it opened in the glass, without losing its definition. Not quite as dense as the 2001 but very full in the mouth, with a higher-pH impression. Finishes very long, with the ripe tannins coating the front teeth. (93pts. Stephen Tanzer)
Tasted: Jan/Feb 2003
Score: 93
Drink: N/A
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