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2003 Tablas Creek Esprit de Beaucastel

Proprietary Blend: 375ml

$17.99

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points awarded:
ST 92 WA 92

92 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, May 2004

...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...


92 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, June 2005

...Medium-deep red. Perfumed aromas of black cherry liqueur, forest floor scents and meat. Impressively silky and suave on entry, then sweet and supple in the middle, with no sense of excess weight. Compared to the 2002, this is a more fruit-driven blend, offering notes of black cherry, raspberry, iron, licorice and spices. Long, mounting finish features smooth tannins...


89 points,

Wine Enthusiast, October 2003

...this flagship remains their best. It's rich, balanced, soft, complex and satisfying, a fine California-Châteauneuf. A blend of Mourvèdre, Syrah, Grenache and Counoise, it shows cherry and chocolate flavors, with a delicate veneer of oak.


92 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, May 2004

...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...


92 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, June 2005

...Medium-deep red. Perfumed aromas of black cherry liqueur, forest floor scents and meat. Impressively silky and suave on entry, then sweet and supple in the middle, with no sense of excess weight. Compared to the 2002, this is a more fruit-driven blend, offering notes of black cherry, raspberry, iron, licorice and spices. Long, mounting finish features smooth tannins...


89 points,

Wine Enthusiast, October 2003

...this flagship remains their best. It's rich, balanced, soft, complex and satisfying, a fine California-Châteauneuf. A blend of Mourvèdre, Syrah, Grenache and Counoise, it shows cherry and chocolate flavors, with a delicate veneer of oak.


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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