Château de Beaucastel Chateauneuf du Pape Roussanne Vieilles Vignes 2018
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Category | White Wine |
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Region | France, Rhone, Chateauneuf-du-Pape |
Brand | Château de Beaucastel |
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2018 Châteauneuf Du Pape Blanc Roussanne Vieilles Vignes is all Roussanne and comes from a three-hectare parcel of vines planted in 1901. It offers a heavenly bouquet of white currants, white flowers, honeysuckle, and toasted bread that opens up beautifully with time in the glass. Rich, full-bodied, powerful and concentrated, it stays perfectly balanced on the palate and has that rare sense of richness paired with freshness that's the hallmark of truly great wines.
Wine Advocate
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The 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Roussanne Vieilles Vignes combines luxurious richness-honeyed pineapple lushness-with clean, vibrant zest and brine notes to make for an interesting juxtaposition in its youth that demands time in the cellar to meld together into a harmonious whole. In one of the mysteries of the wine world, it will then stay on that plateau of decadent maturity for a decade or more.