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1990, Beaucastel, Chateauneuf Du Pape

94.5

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Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Rhone, France
Red
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(Priced at $175 per bottle)


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Points Tasting notes and critic scores


90
Wine Cellar Insider

Critic: Jeff Leve

Tasted: 09-FEB-20

Drinking Dates: -

Score: 90

No decanting here. Just a pop and pour was all that was needed to bring the flowers, baked cherry, kirsch, spice box, herb and green olive aromatics. Silky, soft, fresh sweet and tart cherries with a strong note of olive tapenade and cocoa in the finish. This is not as good as it was a few years ago. If you are sitting on any bottles, you should consider drinking this sooner than later.

93
Vinous

Critic: Neal Martin

Tasted: 01-DEC-19

Drinking Dates: 2019-2036

Score: 93

The 1990 Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a compelling bouquet of plump red fruit, oxtail, leather and morels, all well defined and full of chutzpah. The palate is smooth in texture and, at 29 years old, has certainly mellowed. There is a core of sweet fruit here, but it has softened with age and delivers a smorgasbord of second flavors: meat juices, clove and touches of fennel. It does not possess the audacity of the Hommage à Jacques Perrin, yet it has retained effortless charm. -- Neal Martin

98
James Suckling

Critic: James Suckling

Tasted: 02-OCT-19

Drinking Dates: 2019

Score: 98

This offers a super rich, earth, leather, spice and sweet-tobacco nose with a very similar texture to the 2017. It has a rich, dark, nutty core with very intense, long black fruit and seamless tannins with flavors of leather, tobacco and deep and ripe plums and blueberries. Drink now.

18
Jancis Robinson

Critic: Jancis Robinson

Tasted: 05-DEC-15

Drinking Dates: 2000-2024

Score: 18

Served blind alongside the 1989 and with just a bit more structure and more gaminess. I thought it the more obviously Beaucastel with masses of evolution on the nose but still a bit of grip on the finish.

96
Wine Advocate

Critic: Robert Parker

Tasted: 01-JAN-03

Drinking Dates: 2003-2023

Score: 96

Two great back to back vintages are the 1990 and 1989. The more developed 1990 boasts an incredible perfume of hickory wood, coffee, smoked meat, Asian spices, black cherries, and blackberries. Lush, opulent, and full-bodied, it is a fully mature, profound Beaucastel that will last another 15-20 years.