2004 Chateau du Beaucastel CDP

[dananne]

Thanks for the chuckle!

I have somewhat limited experience with Beaucastel, so my thoughts can be taken with a grain of salt, but I do have a little row of the 99-03 resting comfortably in the cellar, and I've tasted a few here and there at tastings and such. What I've noticed is that they go rather quickly into a dumb or sleepy phase, and rarely poke their heads out of hibernation for about 10 years. Sometimes, it seems all the components are there, but everything is muted. Thus, the acidity seems the dominant characteristic. Most of the time, though, it seems that the wine is not actually out of balance, and I suspect that acidity is what helps the wine age as well as it does. I know it can go 25 years easily when from good vintage years, though I've never had the pleasure of one. Hopefully, I'll live long enough and/or keep my hands off them for mine to reach that point [img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

Coupled with the serving temp being too warm, that probably explains your experience.