Tasting Notes
JancisRobinson.com 16
Very pongy! The brett has overtaken the nose here. Leathery and medicinal and lacking fruit. Typical old Rhone, for better or worse. For me, the iodine and medicine flavour has grown too dominant. (RH)
Anticipated maturity: 2000-2015
Robert Parker 93
A light nose of red cherries, raspberry, lawn cuttings and a touch of iron rust, all with very fine definition and lift. The palate is soft on the entry, full of rounded red-berried fruit with a touch of leather. Very harmonious, gaining weight all the time in the glass with gamey, animally notes becoming ever more intense with great poise and tension on the tannic finish. A feminine, wily Beaucastel with a long plateau ahead. Drink now-2025. Tasted September 2007.
Anticipated maturity: 2009-2025


