Wine Spectator Top 100 List 2008 – Wines 8 and 7
Yesterday we had wines nine and ten. Today comes wines eight and seven.
Château de Beaucastel
Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005
96 points / $95
15,000 cases made
France
One of the largest estates in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, this property is owned and run by the Perrin family. In 2005, they produced their best regular cuvée since 1989 (Wine Spectator’s Wine of the Year in 1991). The Beaucastel vineyard produces dense and explosive wines from a collage of 13 different grapes, most notably Grenache and Mourvèdre. Each is fermented separately in concrete or wooden vats. The third year of drought, 2005 only intensified the concentration and structure of this ageworthy red.
Wine #7
Château Pontet-Canet
Pauillac 2005
96 points / $100
20,830 cases made
France
Owner Alfred Tesseron has masterminded one of the most remarkable turnarounds on Bordeaux’s Left Bank in the past decade, elevating the quality of Pontet-Canet’s wines beyond that of fifth-growth. While Pauillacs such as Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Latour draw much higher prices, Pontet-Canet too crafts powerful wines, built for aging, that express its vineyards planted on poor, gravel soils half a mile from the Gironde River.
Related posts:
- Wine Spectator Top 100 List 2008 – Wines 6 and 5
- Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List 2008 – Wines 4, 3 and 2
- Wine Spectator Top 100 List 2008 – Wines 10 and 9
- Wine Spectator’s Top Wine List 2008 – The Top Wine
- Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines 2008
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