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2002 Tablas Creek Esprit de Beaucastel

Proprietary Blend: 750ml

$34.99

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points awarded:
WA 92-95 WS 92

92 -95 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, August 2003

The 2002 Esprit de Beaucastel (a 2,800-case blend of 57% Mourvedre, 27% Syrah, 10% Grenache, and 6% Counoise) is the finest dry red this estate has yet produced. The Counoise component provides violet and floral notes, the Mourvedre, tannin, structure, and rugged notions of leather, animal fur, and tree bark, the Syrah offers blackberries as well as creme de cassis, and the Grenache, warmth, generosity, glycerin, and opulence. An intense, dense purple-colored, complex red with large body as well as a sense of elegance and definition, it should be a whopper when released next year.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, November 2004

A brilliant effort, ripe, rich and deeply flavored, with juicy, concentrated black cherry, wild berry, spice and peppery scents. The flavors flow across and saturate the palate, finishing with a long, intense, persistent aftertaste that echoes ripe fruit and spice. Ripe tannins and a dash of cedary oak round out the finish. Mourvèdre, Syrah, Grenache and Counoise. Drink now through 2008. 2,000 cases made. -JL


92 -95 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, August 2003

The 2002 Esprit de Beaucastel (a 2,800-case blend of 57% Mourvedre, 27% Syrah, 10% Grenache, and 6% Counoise) is the finest dry red this estate has yet produced. The Counoise component provides violet and floral notes, the Mourvedre, tannin, structure, and rugged notions of leather, animal fur, and tree bark, the Syrah offers blackberries as well as creme de cassis, and the Grenache, warmth, generosity, glycerin, and opulence. An intense, dense purple-colored, complex red with large body as well as a sense of elegance and definition, it should be a whopper when released next year.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, November 2004

A brilliant effort, ripe, rich and deeply flavored, with juicy, concentrated black cherry, wild berry, spice and peppery scents. The flavors flow across and saturate the palate, finishing with a long, intense, persistent aftertaste that echoes ripe fruit and spice. Ripe tannins and a dash of cedary oak round out the finish. Mourvèdre, Syrah, Grenache and Counoise. Drink now through 2008. 2,000 cases made. -JL


About Winery

Tablas Creek is the realization of the combined efforts of two of the international wine community's leading families, the Perrin family, proprietors of Château de Beaucastel, and Robert Haas, founder of Vineyard Brands. They had since the 1970s believed the California climate to be ideal for planting Rhône varietal grapes. In 1987, they began the lengthy process of creating a Châteauneuf-du-Pape style vineyard from scratch in the New World. The Tablas Creek Vineyard Partnership was born, with the Perrin and Haas families as majority partners, and French and American wine loving friends as minority partners.

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