Chateau de Beaucastel Hommage Jacques Perrin Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2001

Professional Ratings

• 100 Decanter
  Only now is the 2001 Hommage really becoming clear and fully open. It's like a firework show, with great spark and smoke on the nose, with hung game and spices in the background. This is such a thrill to stick your nose in, it's a carnival. Medium-bodied now, it has great length and depth with a lovely freshness and fruitiness on the palate. Strong acid vein keeps things moving, and it still has a good tannic frame, though it's soft in texture now. What most wine lovers would want when opening a Châteauneuf: complexity, power, a great aromatic display, and a huge sense of satisfaction. Faultless. Drinking Window 2020 - 2040
• 99 Jeb Dunnuck
  This bottle of 2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin was amazingly accessable, seamless and stunning. Packed with cassis, blackberry, meat and spice aromas on the nose, this has fabulous depth and precision. The palate is full bodied and with an open, perfect, seamless texture that is simply silk. There's certainly massive concentration but the purity and precision and just sheer drink ability is amazing. This finishes with subtle tannins on the long finish.
• 96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  I found this bottle of 2001 Châteauneuf du Pape Hommage À Jacques Perrin to be slightly behind a recent bottle from my cellar. Nevertheless, it was perfumed and surprisingly open, with gorgeous cedar, charcuterie, truffle, blackberry and currant-like fruit all soaring from the glass. Full-bodied, seamless and supple, with its tannin, fruit and acidity perfectly balanced, it’s just now on the cusp of moving from its adolescent stage into the early stages of maturity. Give bottles another 3-5 years and enjoy over the following couple of decades. The blend here is the classic, foudre-aged mix of 60% Mourvedre, 20% Grenache, 10% Counoise, and 10% Syrah.
• 95 Wine Spectator
  This is just starting to shed its cloak of dark, bittersweet Valrhona chocolate and brooding tar notes, unfurling a core of cassis, blackberry paste and plum reduction that has a terrifically broad, fleshy feel. Still has some grip to shed on the finish though, where roasted mesquite, iron and sanguine notes wait in reserve. Seems on course to be one of the longer-lived wines of the vintage.--2001 Châteauneuf-du-Pape non-blind retrospective (November 2011). Drink now through 2026.
• 94 Wine & Spirits