Chateau de Beaucastel 1997

winemonger · 2004-04-29T05:31:40+00:00

I opened a bottle of Chateau de Beaucastel (Chateauneuf-du-Pape blanc)1997 Vielles Vignes last Sunday and....well, it was not corked. If itwas corked, than it was so in a way that I have never come up against. So what was it? Already faded? There was this tang that I don'thave the proper language to describe. Old apple orchard?I realize that without tasting it I am asking a lot of all ofyou...but surely there is some common thing here that I don't knowabout. I still have the bottle, corked and cooled, so if you want toask some specific questions to help me not only understand what is upwith this wine but also how to describe it, please chime in!

Apr 29, 2004 20 Replies

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Michael Pronay 22 years ago

Ooops - pardon me, of course you are right. Browning apple *peels* was I was thinking of.

Don't know this odour, sorry.

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