Our speaker for the evening was Howard Cayman, from Charton Hobbs, who are the importers of the wines were were tasting and all of Perrin & Fils wines, to Canada. Howard has worked in the wine industy for many years. He has spent some time in Harrods wine department as well as working as an assistant wine maker in many wineries in both Canada and France.
Cheateau de Beaucastle are the only producers in Southern Rhone to produce their wine using all 13 grape varieties allowed in the production of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and they have been strictly organic since 1964.
The wines were tasted in chronological order, starting with the young '07 through to the '95. Howard spoke about how when tasting a vertical like, it is extremely difficult to rate and compare these wines against each other as they are all in different stages of evolution. Luckily the group was able to work through these difficulties and come up with a ranking.
The groups favourite wine of the night, turned out to be the '98, which had a beautiful sweet aroma and great flavours of juicy blackberry, licorice and truffles. Our second favourite wine was the baby of the group, the '07. It had great acidity and Howard spoke about how it has a great life ahead of it and could last for 25 or 30 years. Howard's, the speaker of the night, favourite wine was the 2000. For anyone out there holding bottles of the '95 vintage, even though it scored well (3rd for the group and 6th for the speaker), it showed signs that it was on the back end of it's life. Howard said that it had reached it peak and would notget any better.
Name
of Wine (in order poured)
|
Group
Ranking
|
Guest
Ranking
|
| 2007 vintage |
2
|
3
|
| 2004 vintage |
8
|
8
|
| 2003 vintage |
7
|
4
|
| 2001 vintage |
5
|
2
|
| 2000 vintage |
6
|
1
|
| 1999 vintage |
4
|
7
|
| 1998 vintage |
1
|
5
|
| 1995 vintage |
3
|
6
|
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