2022 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Hommage à Jacques Perrin, Château de Beaucastel, Rhône

Cask sample.

Just wow on the nose – such intense dark fruits, pastille fruits and sweet spice, tobacco, meat and blackcurrant. The attack is dense and deeply concentrated, with sweet pastille fruit, such suave tannins, incredible concentration and ripe, sweet, layered liquorice, mulberry, cassis and leather, as well as black tea, lavender and garrigue. There is an underpinning salinity beneath that lifts the finish. Hugely dense and concentrated. Superb.

Drink 2032 - 2050

Such a great wine, powerfully concentrated, laced through with rosemary, cut dried herbs, blackberry, liqourice, crushed rocks, cumin, underbrush, all overlaid with a more delicate raspberry leaf fragrance. This was a hot dry year, and you can find plenty of grilled spice notes, even heading as far as incense, but this hugs the palate and has so much grip through the finish. 4ha of vines, César Perrin winemaker.

Drink 2026 - 2042

The 2022 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin is on track to rank alongside the spectacular 2020. This year, the final blend is 60% Mourvèdre, 20% Grenache and the remainder equally split between Syrah and Counoise. The magnificent result bursts with intense spice box, licorice, blackberry jam, blackcurrant, crushed flowers, forest strawberry and peppercorn. Savory to the core, the tightly structured 2022 is an ambitious Hommage à Jacques Perrin that walks off the stage with an expansive finish.

Drink 2032 - 2052

Notes of cooked blueberries and liquorice on the nose. This has great palate weight and density, it’s so savoury. The tannins are really searching, and the acidity is driving. A big tannic seat, and a lovely sense of vibrancy and freshness to the fruit. This has enormous presence, it's a big, powerful, dense vintage of Hommage that will age for a very long time. Around 60% of the blend comes from old-vine Mourvèdre from the Courrieux vineyard. Grapes are destemmed, fermented in tronconic wooden vats using natural yeasts after a brief cold maceration, with regular punching down.

Drink 2034 - 2055