Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge 2006

"Powerful, with a round, almost creamy core of blackberry and raspberry fruit all layered with cocoa, sweet toast, mesquite and fig paste. Long and rich through the finish. Still quite primal, with lots in reserve. Best from 2010 through 2030. "
Note : 95/100 - 2009-04-30

"Medium to deep garnet colour. Pretty perfume of freshly crushed raspberries / blackberries with nuances of wet leaves, cinnamon and white pepper. The medium to full bodied palate provides a good concentration of juicy berry fruit countered by medium to high acidity and a medium level of velvety tannins. Wonderfully balanced. Long finish with notes of white pepper. 13.4% alcohol. Drink 2010 - 2030. Tasted August 2009."
Note : 95/100 - 2009-11-01

"L'ensemble est souple, sans aucune raideur. Grand potentiel."
Note : 18/20 - 2011-09-07

"Un 2006 au nez discret, d'un grand raffinement et d'une belle fraîcheur, requérant temps et oxygène pour se dévoiler et se complexifier. Bouche droite et ramassée, tout aussi fraîche, aux tanins stylisés et tricotés serrés, avec finesse et grain. Un vin racé, sans compromis ni surmaturité inutile, au boisé complètement intégré au coeur, finement cacaoté et qui ira très loin dans le temps. Un modèle de retenue et d'équilibre."
Sélection Chartier 2012 Note : **** - 2011-09-13

"Mid to pale crimson. Sweet and flirtatious. Transparent. Doesn’t taste 14.5% at all! There is fesh acidity here and a certain meat-and-two-veg quality. You could enjoy it already although I’d be inclined to wait for more aromatic complexity to develop. "
Note : 16,5/20 - 2011-10-04

"Le Beaucastel rouge est sur la réserve mais précis et ciselé, un rien strict, avec une race et un potentiel évidents. Vin de caractère, il requiert de la patience pour se livrer pleinement."
Les meilleurs vins de France 2009 Olivier Poussier, Antoine Gerbelle et Olivier Poels Note : 18/20 - 2008-09-01

"Vin très pur, net et direct : le bouquet est frais et complexe, l'ampleur évidente, tout comme la belle charpente, mais l'ensemble est souple, sans aucune raideur. Grand potentiel."
Le grand guide des vins de France 2009 Bettane & Desseauve Note : 18/20 - 2008-07-01

"Du croquant et de la texture, autant de caractéristiques qui font l'élégance de ce vin qui peut être bu dès aujourd'hui. Mettre la bouteille debout 48 heures avant service pour faire descendre le dépôt. "
Verticale Château de Beaucastel - Famille Perrin - 2013-12-03

"Le millésime 2006 est aérien : jolie robe, nez aux notes animales, bouche tout en équilibre, entre une belle acidité et une jolie rondeur. "
Famille Perrin - 2016-09-08

"Le nez révèle des caractères fruités, marqué par une structure aromatique très présente. Son côté gourmand en fait une grande promesse et sa jeunesse lui permet d’être dégusté dès maintenant. A décanter 2h avant service."
Famille Perrin - 2017-10-01

"A fantastic wine, the 2006 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du- Pape fleshes out with air and displays deep, earthy aromatics of dark fruit, roasted meat, graphite, mushroom and old wood. In the mouth, the wine displays a medium to full bodied, structured personality to go with a fantastic texture, concentrated fruit and a long finish. If drinking anytime soon this needs plenty of air."
Note : 94+/100 - 2009-08-01

"This wine’s dense plum/ruby/purple color is followed by a big, sweet perfume of black truffles, camphor, earth, incense, new saddle leather, and loads of peppery, blackberry, and herb-infused, meaty, black cherry fruit. Deep, full-bodied, and dense, with sweet tannin, this explosively rich Chateauneuf is a stronger effort than the 2005, 2004, or 2003."
Note : 95/100 - 2009-11-01

"Vivid ruby. Spicy, finely etched red berry and cherry aromas are complicated by fresh lavender, herbs and minerals. The palate offers tangy raspberry and cherry skin flavors, with gentle tannins adding shape. Impressively pure, even delicate, with outstanding finishing clarity and length. This beguiles rather than brutalizes; I underestimated it last year."
Note : 93/100 - 2009-01-01

"Powerful, with a round, almost creamy core of blackberry and raspberry fruit all layered with cocoa, sweet toast, mesquite and fig paste. Long and rich through the finish. Still quite primal, with lots in reserve."
Note : 95/100 - 2009-04-30

"The 2006 Beaucastel shows the textbook character of a mature Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It has expansive raspberry and cherry scents with suggestions of succulent herbs, pungent flowers, cigar box and just a hint of earth. Given the high percentage of Mourvèdre (almost a third of the blend), I would have thought that the earthy aspect would have been more pronounced, but that is not the case here. The 2006 is silky in texture, and the suave blend of depth and energy highlights its red fruit along with floral pastille and baking spice flavors. It finishes extremely long and precise, with superb clarity and just a hint of finely polished tannins adding gentle grip. Beaucastel often shows some gamy character when the wines are young; however, the 2006 did not in barrel nor after it was bottled, and there’s no trace of it now. I noted almost twelve years ago that this was a wine that “beguiles rather than brutalizes”, and I’m happy with that assessment today."
Josh Raynolds Note : 95/100 - 2021-09-27