Château de Beaucastel
"The hallmark of 2009 in Chateauneuf is silky tannins," Marc Perrin told me as we started our annual tasting. "It's a vintage that favors the late-ripening grapes because we got some good rain in the middle of September that helped the mourvedre and syrah a lot." He was especially pleased with how the estate's mourvedre turned out in '09, calling it "perfectly mature and without hardness. The 2009 classique [which is 30% mourvedre, by the way] has an elegance that will make it seductive young because the tannins are hidden and absorbed by the fruit." Perrin told me that he would be surprised if the '09s ever really shut down hard—"and if they do close up it will probably be for a short time, unlike the 2007 and 2005." Perrin emphasized that when Beaucastel makes an Hommage a Jacques Perrin bottling, as is currently planned for 2009, "it is because we think that it will be a wine of finesse, foremost. The greatest wines are the finest, the most elegant, not the most massive or brutal." (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)
From 2009 and 2008 Chateauneuf du Pape (Mar 2011) by Josh Raynolds
2009 Chateauneuf-du-Pape Hommage A Jacques Perrin
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