Tablas Creek Esprit de Beaucastel Rouge 2003
Rhone Red Blends
from Central Coast, California
winemaker's notes:
The 2003 Esprit de Beaucastel is dark black-red in color, with a rich briary nose of blackberry and rare steak. The elegant, layered palate shows spicy plum and cherry fruit, smoky flavors and ripe tannins. The long finish shows flavors of mineral and black cherry.
"The 2003 Esprit de Beaucastel, a blend of 50% Mourvedre, 27% Syrah, 18% Grenache, and 5% Counoise, exhibits a saturated deep ruby/purple color in addition to a superb nose of blackberries, blue fruits, crushed minerals, new saddle leather, animal fur, and flowers. With wonderful concentration and purity buttressed by considerable structure as well as moderately high tannin, this foudre-aged effort will benefit from another 1-2 years of cellaring, and promises to keep for a decade or more."
-The Wine Advocate
user reviews:
The top 3 most liked reviews for this wine.
A Customer - ensenada, mexico
this is a vry balanced wine, it's great great color, delicious first nose, and consistant second nose. Full bodied with smokey flavors, good acidity and you could never tell the high amount of alcohol in it, Excelelnt blend based on mauverde
