Château de Beaucastel

According to Marc Perrin, "2011 was especially hard on the grenache in Chateauneuf and definitely favored the late-ripening varieties, especially mourvedre." The uneven ripening that occurred caused the grapes to "look fine on the outside but not so fine inside" and resulted in a brutal (his word was "ridiculous") selection process at harvest. There was even an additional sorting of the grapes after de-stemming, he told me, meaning that in terms of labor and fruit sacrifice this was one of their most demanding and costly ever. Final production was off by about 50%, "which is far into the range of economically unfeasible," he added. Luckily for the Perrins almost 40% of Beaucastel's total plantings are mourvedre, which fared far better than the grenache, "and gave us a lot more breathing room than most people here."

From 2011 and 2010 Southern Rhone Wines (Jan 2013) by Josh Raynolds

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