{"id":374,"date":"2006-06-23T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2018-09-13T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T08:57:16","slug":"chateau-de-beaucastel-chateauneuf-du-pape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/reviews\/producer-recommendations\/france\/rhone-valley-wineries\/chateau-de-beaucastel-chateauneuf-du-pape\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e2teau de Beaucastel, Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape | BKWine Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau de Beaucastel, located in the north eastern corner of the appellation, is among the top of the top wine estates in Chateauneuf. The brothers Jacques and Jean-Pierre Perrin takes good care of the heritage created by their father Jacques and grand father Pierre. The vineyards are managed organically since the 1950s. Chemical treatment and fertilisers destabilise the soil and eliminates the terroir characteristics they think.<\/p>\n<p>They have increased the part of Mourv\u00e8dre and it now counts for 30% of the total which is high in this Grenache-dominated appellation. One peculiarity for Beaucastel is that they use all 13 permitted grape varieties \u2013 all vinified separately \u2013 admittedly some in very small quantities. But each variety contributes something in their opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to magnificent red and white Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape they also have a range of less costly wines from other appellations: C\u00f4tes-du-Rh\u00f4ne, C\u00f4te du Luberon and C\u00f4te de Ventoux under the names Domaine Perrin or La Vieille Ferme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10008\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bkwine-am13-304-0446-1.jpg\" alt=\"A view over the city Avignon and the Rhone\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bkwine-am13-304-0446-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bkwine-am13-304-0446-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bkwine-am13-304-0446-1-400x260.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view over the city Avignon and the Rhone, copyright BKWine Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau de Beaucastel, located in the north eastern corner of the appellation, is among the top of the top wine estates in Chateauneuf. The brothers Jacques and Jean-Pierre Perrin takes good care of the heritage created by their father Jacques and grand father Pierre. The vineyards are managed organically since the 1950s. Chemical treatment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,5],"tags":[421,1969,1546],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rhone-valley-wineries","category-wine-producer-profiles","tag-chateauneuf-du-pape","tag-france","tag-rhone-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}