2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin Beaucastel, Rhône

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin, Beaucastel

As this was bottled only a week before I tasted it, I suspect this rating will prove to be conservative once a few months have passed. The 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin is another prodigious version of this wine. How many wines in this world can be so huge yet so lacking the feeling of weight? There's plenty of layered spice but also a core of raspberries; rich tannins, yet no real astringency; and a long finish without any apparent heat. Wow! - Joe Czerwinski, Okt. 2017

Wine Spectator - 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin, Beaucastel

A well-endowed wine, dripping with cassis, plum sauce and raspberry puree flavors supported by notes of warmed apple wood, black tea and melted licorice. Dense yet remarkably polished, and almost supple in feel, with a bolt of warm earth scoring the very end of the finish. Best from 2025 through 2050. 170 cases made. - Aug. 2018

Vinous - 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage a Jacques Perrin, Beaucastel

Inky ruby. Potent blackberry, cassis, potpourri and garrigue aromas expand with air, picking up Indian spice and mineral nuances and a hint of smokiness. Sweet and seamless in texture, offering wonderfully concentrated yet lively dark fruit liqueur, spicecake and floral pastille flavors and a touch of candied licorice. Deftly blends richness and vivacity and finishes spicy, focused and extremely long; pliant tannins add shape and closing grip. - Josh Raynolds, März 2017