Top Beaucastel ever on CellarTracker, and by a fairly wide margin.
Decanter says:
A deep, quite herbal expression, with liquorice and crushed blueberries to the cassis fruit. Full-bodied, powerfully fruited, dense and deep. Really mouthcoating, intense fruit. The tannins are ripe, fine and plentiful, all saturated in blackberry juice on a long finish. Certainly one of the more successful Châteauneufs this year. Will age well. A Mourvèdre-led expression of Beaucastel - it contains more than usual, at least 35% and probably more. Grenache and Cinsault fermented in cement, Syrah and Mourvèdre fermented in foudre.
Jancis Robinson calls it “wonderful” and Vinous “magnificent.” And Revue du Vin de France rates Beaucastel the single greatest producer in the entire Rhone Valley and South of France.
This one is as “Blue Chip” as they get!