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Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhône Blend 1989
The 1989 is inkier/purple in color than the 1990, with an extraordinarily sweet, rich personality offering up notes of smoke, melted licorice, black cherries, Asian spices, and cassis. Full-bodied and concentrated, it is one of the most powerful as well as highly extracted Beaucastels I have ever tasted...Drink now-2023. Robert Parker
Ratings on Delectable
George Chen 
Geez…was expecting a extracted heavy handed wine but it tasted of Rayas texture, silky, sinewy and just nice gently nuanced fruit, spices for the hour! Need to buy more 89’s!! Wow
Geez…was expecting a extracted heavy handed wine but it tasted of Rayas texture, silky, sinewy and just nice gently nuanced fruit, spices for the hour! Need to buy more 89’s!! Wow
9.6
Ezekiel James Hampton
1989 vintage from 3L. Amazing!! Siberian forest, wet stone, dried lavender. Acid and structure amazing. Opera music plays in my head when I drink it.
1989 vintage from 3L. Amazing!! Siberian forest, wet stone, dried lavender. Acid and structure amazing. Opera music plays in my head when I drink it.
9.5
Conrad Green
A really beautiful nose. Violets, roses, a little bloodiness. Meatiness. Really light and pure. Very settled on the palate. With time the finish is fleshing out. Really pretty- soft, long and sweet. Light and really good
A really beautiful nose. Violets, roses, a little bloodiness. Meatiness. Really light and pure. Very settled on the palate. With time the finish is fleshing out. Really pretty- soft, long and sweet. Light and really good
9.7
Mike Saviage
From a great looking bottle with a good fill. Dark and opaque in the glass. Impactful nose. Lots of fruit, with the herbal and gaminess that the 89 can possess. But this is more elegant and rounded than bottles I’ve had before. The fruit and the soft structure are in harmony. I’ve had this maybe a dozen or more times over many years… this bottle might have been the best. .
From a great looking bottle with a good fill. Dark and opaque in the glass. Impactful nose. Lots of fruit, with the herbal and gaminess that the 89 can possess. But this is more elegant and rounded than bottles I’ve had before. The fruit and the soft structure are in harmony. I’ve had this maybe a dozen or more times over many years… this bottle might have been the best. .
9.6
Eric Urbani
From the famed vintage. Outstanding
From the famed vintage. Outstanding
9.8
Seth Morgen Long
Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long
Dusty, mature, spicy, green, tomato leaf, uninspiring
Dusty, mature, spicy, green, tomato leaf, uninspiring
8.5Conrad Green
Oh wow. Beaucastle is variable but this bottle is a peach. A gorgeous expansive nose with dark gnarly fruit, tobacco, plum herbs. The palate is wonderfully giving, with deep fruit, still fresh, but loads of secondary notes and soft subtle edges. Really long and pure and savory. By a mile the best bottle of this wine I’ve had with none of the thickness, brett or heat you sometimes find here. A treat
Oh wow. Beaucastle is variable but this bottle is a peach. A gorgeous expansive nose with dark gnarly fruit, tobacco, plum herbs. The palate is wonderfully giving, with deep fruit, still fresh, but loads of secondary notes and soft subtle edges. Really long and pure and savory. By a mile the best bottle of this wine I’ve had with none of the thickness, brett or heat you sometimes find here. A treat
9.6Mike Saviage
From a perfect looking bottle with a high fill, not from the leaker batch. Still on the purple side of tawny. Translucent, young and light on its feet. Bright noble nose with high pitched notes of Herbs de Provence, raspberry, rhubarb. Has an animalistic kind of mouth feel, rich and exotic. Evolves in the glass nicely, becomes more powerful with air. Had this many times and this has to be the best of them.
From a perfect looking bottle with a high fill, not from the leaker batch. Still on the purple side of tawny. Translucent, young and light on its feet. Bright noble nose with high pitched notes of Herbs de Provence, raspberry, rhubarb. Has an animalistic kind of mouth feel, rich and exotic. Evolves in the glass nicely, becomes more powerful with air. Had this many times and this has to be the best of them.
9.6Jasmine Hirsch
Sales & Marketing Hirsch Vineyards, founder In Pursuit of Balance
A perfect pairing with blue velvet slippers.
A perfect pairing with blue velvet slippers.
9.1
jesus g
Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards
Mood
Mood
9.8
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