Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape - 2000 (750ml) viner 33 very pure blackberry and boysenberry

very pure blackberry and boysenberry notes interlaced with cedar

maple syrup

not a great deal of density

located in the Red Mountain AVA

Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape - 2000 (750ml) viner 33 very pure blackberry and boysenberryThe 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