- Colour White
- Producer Château de Beaucastel
- Region Châteauneuf du Pape
- Grape Grenache Blanc / Clairette
- Drinking 2020 - 2035
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
2018 - Châteauneuf du Pape Blanc Ch de Beaucastel - 6x75cl
- Colour White
- Producer Château de Beaucastel
- Region Châteauneuf du Pape
- Grape Grenache Blanc / Clairette
- Drinking 2020 - 2035
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, September 2019
The predominance of Roussanne (80%) in this stunning white Châteauneuf is given additional complexity by the addition of the Clairette, Grenache Blanc, Bourboublenc and Picardan grape varieties in equal quantity to make up the remaining 20%. This is a white wine with a difference, deep straw yellow colour, it has lovely aromas of hazelnut, quince and honeysuckle. In the palate the focus is on volume and texture with its broad white fruit flavours. This is a very generous style with relatively low acid giving it a feeling of weight and depth. A wine to be enjoyed in its youth but with the calibre to age extremely well indeed.
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Wine Advocate, August 2019, Score: 92-94
A terrific example of Beaucastel's white, the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc boasts lavish aromas of honeydew and tangerine. It's full-bodied and round, lush and concentrated, with terrific length and presence on the palate. Drink Date 2020 - 2027
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Jeb Dunnuck, August 2019, Score: 93-95
The 2018 Châteauneuf Du Pape Blanc takes it up a notch, offering rocking notes of white peach, quince, crushed rocks, and honeysuckle. It’s medium to full-bodied, with a beautiful core of sweet fruit, a layered texture, and a great finish. It’s unquestionably another beautiful wine, and while 2018 was challenging for the whites, you wouldn’t know it by tasting this.
Producer
Château de Beaucastel
Château de Beaucastel, the flagship estate of the Perrin family and masters on the Southern Rhône, makes benchmark Châteauneuf. The best vintages here can age into legendary wines, and an increasing tendency to elegance in the winemaking style of recent years has not gone unnoticed. The Beaucastel vines are all in one large 110 hectare block at the northern end of the Châteauneuf du Pape appellation. The plot contains all t...Read more
Château de Beaucastel, the flagship estate of the Perrin family and masters on the Southern Rhône, makes benchmark Châteauneuf. The best vintages here can age into legendary wines, and an increasing tendency to elegance in the winemaking style of recent years has not gone unnoticed. The Beaucastel vines are all in one large 110 hectare block at the northern end of the Châteauneuf du Pape appellation. The plot contains all the archetypal soil types of the region: sand, clay and limestone, with pudding stone pebbles on the surface. Their Coudoulet vines lie just beyond the northern boundary and convey much of the typicity of a Châteauneuf in a more accessible format. The estate famously grows all thirteen varieties permitted within the Châteauneuf appellation. Beyond the Beaucastel estate, the Perrin family have built up a comprehensive portfolio of wines across the Southern Rhône appellations including Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Vinsobres.Read less
Region
Châteauneuf du Pape
The emperor of southern Rhône appellations, Châteauneuf du Pape was the first A.O.C. in all of France, created in 1936. Their bottle is unique embossed with the papal coat of arms. Thirteen varieties (14 if Grenache Blanc is counted separately) can be incorporated in the blend. The reds include: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan, Cinsault, Terret Noir, Picpoul, Vaccarèse, Counoise, Muscardin, while the whites are Roussanne, Bourboulenc and Clairette. Only a handful of producers use all 13, Grenache often being the highest percentage of the blend. This enables each producer to highlight the varieties that are the ripest and most interesting in any given year. Most Châteauneuf du Pâpes are master examples of wines that can be approachable within the first few years of release yet able to develop superb complexity during many years of cellaring.
