2018 Famille Perrin Les Sinards Chateauneuf du Pape Rhone Valley 750 ml

Beaucastel provenance typically comes with a Beaucastel price: The Southern Rhône icon’s entry-level bottling goes for $100, while their top release eclipses $500. 

That’s why we grabbed all we could of the Perrin family’s stunning 2018 Les Sinards, a Châteauneuf-du-Pape overachiever that boasts Château de Beaucastel’s singular terroir—and doesn’t give up much ground to big brother. 

Sourced from young vines at Beaucastel and accented by grapes from another Perrin-farmed property just to the west of that iconic estate, this bottle exudes everything we adore in first-class Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

This is the kind of value that usually requires us to scour the cellars of under-the-radar Châteauneuf producers. It’s a can’t-miss bottle for red-wine lovers who want to stock up on the legendary Perrin family’s rich, ageworthy Châteauneuf-du-Pape for less than half the price the estate's world-famous flagship. As Jeb Dunnuck said, “It’s a winner.” 

Château de Beaucastel comprises a single property in the northern section of Châteauneuf-du-Pape where vines that grow in the stiff mistral winds deliver excruciatingly low yields and massive concentration of flavor. Some of these vines sit across the A7 autoroute—outside the Châteauneuf appellation—and produce Coudoulet de Beaucastel, the property’s famed Côtes du Rhône. 

Back on Beaucastel’s sacred Châteauneuf soil, the Perrin family taps the younger vines for Les Sinards, combining that stellar fruit with grapes from a family-farmed plot just to the west. The result is fantastic: As Wine Advocate pointed out, “it seems to have a bit of everything.”