Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Château de Beaucastel Rouge, Perrin - Château de Beaucastel 1999

“1999 Beaucastel Rouge is a profoundly rich, concentrated, classic vin de garde. … It is one of the blackest, most opaque-coloured Beaucastels of the last decade. The bouquet offers aromas of liquorice, roasted meats, black cherry and blackberry fruit, and a truffle-like, earthy note. Broodingly backward, formidably endowed, powerful, and extremely tannic, it will require 8-10 years of cellaring and should age effortlessly for 3 decades or more. Francois Perrin compares it to the thrilling 1990.