Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape - 2000 (750ml) Size:750ml Robert Parker - 95 points

Robert Parker - 95 points

but can be drunk with considerable pleasure

backward Margauxs of the last 50 years

This has very good structure and symmetry

suggesting 4-5 more years of cellaring is warranted

Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape - 2000 (750ml) Size:750ml Robert Parker - 95 pointsThe 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