The 2010 Vintage from the Château de Beaucastel
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It’s soil Jim, but not as we know it (or
“We’re going to need a bigger
trowel”)
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The red wines of Beaucastel are rocketing into a new
era of quality. Gone is the rusticity that was, for
many years, considered part and parcel of the style
here. We now have something altogether finer, more
focussed and, yes, cleaner.
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And of this new era (if one can describe as an era a
period of 4 years or so) 2010 is the finest wine.
Hell, it’s quite probably the finest wine
produced here ever.
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And a word about the whites. The Vieilles Vignes
Roussanne is regarded as pretty much the top white of
the southern Rhône Valley and “up
there” with Chave’s white Hermitage in
the north. We are certainly talking something on a
par with grand cru white burgundy. If exceptioanlly
rich and complex dry white wine is your thing, they
don’t come much more exotic and exciting.
That leaves the “basic” white
Châteauneuf-du-Pape. All I will say is that I
have just finished my case of the 1999 vintage of
this wine and everyone for whom I have poured it has
ben rendered speechless by its overwhelming
loveliness. If you were to think of it as
top-of-the-tree Meursault from a top-flight producer,
you’d be quite wrong, but closer to the truth
than any other description I can think of for the
time being.
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| Vintage |
Wine |
Drink dates |
Case size |
Price
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Notes |
Order |
| 2010 |
Coudoulet de Beaucastel, Côtes-du-Rhône, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2012-2022 |
12x75cl |
£135.00 |
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| 2010 |
Coudoulet de Beaucastel, Côtes du Rhône, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2014-2025 |
6x150cl |
£141.00 |
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| 2010 |
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2017-2030 |
6x75cl |
£252.00 |
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| 2010 |
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2020-2035 |
6x150cl |
£510.00 |
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| 2010 |
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2014-2022 |
6x75cl |
£240.00 |
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| 2010 |
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Vieilles Vignes Roussanne, Château de Beaucastel, Southern Rhône, France |
2015-2025 |
6x75cl |
£390.00 |
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