Wine Spectator Score: 93

Robert Parker Score: 99

Tanzer Score: 95

Region: Rhone

District: Chateauneuf du Pape

Type: Still Wine

Color: Red

Varietal: Rhone Blends

Vintage: 2001

Size: 750ML

Organic: Yes

Available: 1

Brand: See more from Chateau Beaucastel

Sku: 10745

Price: $470.99

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Wine Spectator Review:
Vivid and racy, with rich blackberry and currant fruit, lots of tar, smoke and mineral notes and a rich, sweet, chocolaty finish. Nice flashes of terroir lurk underneath all the fruit, too. Serious structure here, but surprisingly accessible now. Very impressive. Drink now through 2016.

Parker Review:
The 2001 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin is a blend of 60% Mourvedre, 20% Grenache, 10% Counoise, and 10% Syrah. Fullb odied, excruciatingly backward, and nearly impenetrable, it boasts an inky blue purple color in addition to a promising nose of new saddle leather, melted asphalt, camphor, blackberries, smoky, roasted herbs, and Asian spices. A huge lashing of tannin as well as a formidable structure result in the antithesis of its more flattering, forward, and voluptuous sibling, the classic Beaucastel. Readers lucky enough to come across this cuvee should plan on waiting at least a decade before it begins to approach adolescence. Anticipated maturity 2012 to 2040.

Tanzer Review:
Saturated rubyred. Highly complex, very primary, inky nose hints at blackberry, black cherry, licorice, spicecake and tree bark dominated by the mourvedre. Then dense, thick and sappy in the mouth, with brooding black fruit and mineral flavors and superb precision. Hints of meat and leather lurk, but, like the regular release, this is extremely backward and dominated by dark fruits. Offers superb thickness without any excess weight, and a wonderfully seamless, elegant texture. Finishes extremely long, with very fine tannins. A unique critter a Chateauneuf du Pape with just 20% grenache. Likely to develop in bottle for two decades or more.