Chateau de Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Roussanne Vieilles Vignes white 2024
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Discover Jeb Dunnuck’s full analysis of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, an essential read for understanding the 2023 and 2024 vintages and selecting the finest cuvées. Inside, you’ll find regional trends, the most sought-after ratings, and the reasons why certain wines reach 99 or even 100 points. This page guides your purchases with the precise insights of the Rhône Valley’s most influential critic. Click to read the complete report and access the top-rated wines available at estate prices.
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A benchmark critic for Châteauneuf-du-Pape enthusiasts
A former aerospace engineer turned wine critic, Jeb Dunnuck is now one of the most respected voices when it comes to Rhône wines, especially Châteauneuf-du-Pape. His 100-point scale ratings are closely followed by both enthusiasts and professionals, as they are based on extensive estate visits and a deep understanding of the region’s terroirs. When a wine receives 98, 99, or 100 points from Jeb Dunnuck, it instantly enters the circle of highly sought-after cuvées treasured by collectors around the world.
Why Jeb Dunnuck’s notes are a valuable landmark
For enthusiasts looking to buy with confidence, Jeb Dunnuck’s ratings provide a clear and reliable benchmark. They summarize a wine’s quality, precision, depth, balance, and above all its ageing potential. Beyond the score itself, his detailed notes describe the wine’s style, texture, aromatics, and how it may evolve over twenty years or more. At Best Vintage, we highlight these ratings to help you select the finest Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines, always pairing the score with the full review and our own tasting recommendations.
Vintage 2023 at Châteauneuf-du-Pape: generosity, charm and immediate pleasure
The 2023 vintage in the Southern Rhône, and particularly in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, stands out for its sunny, generous and immediately appealing character. After a well-watered spring and an excellent flowering, the vines produced comfortable yields. The hot summer, punctuated by a late-August heatwave, brought excellent ripeness, while the relatively mild nights resulted in round tannins and a softer structure. According to Jeb Dunnuck, the 2023s are rarely massive; they are medium to full-bodied wines with remarkable ease of drinking, velvety tannins, and a distinctly Provençal profile marked by herbs, garrigue and generous, expressive fruit.
These 2023 wines can be compared to vintages such as 2020, 2018 or 2012, offering very early drinkability while still retaining real ageing potential of 10 to 12 years, or even longer for the best cuvées. The most successful wines combine vibrant fruit, a silky, caressing texture and a beautiful overall harmony. At Best Vintage, you’ll find a selection of these highly rated 2023 cuvées from Jeb Dunnuck, ideal for anyone seeking expressive, generous Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines that are already delicious in their youth.
Vintage 2024: freshness, structure and great whites for laying down
The 2024 vintage presents a nearly opposite profile to that of 2023. After an early season marked by heavy rainfall and strong mildew pressure, particularly for organically farmed estates, yields were significantly reduced. Severe coulure on Grenache forced many growers to adjust their blends by increasing the proportions of Syrah and Mourvèdre. The result is a set of wines that are tighter, fresher, and built on more pronounced acidity and tannic structure, with deeper color and impressive density.
According to Jeb Dunnuck, 2024 recalls classic vintages such as 2004 or 2013, and even 2001, with wines that are both ripe, straight in profile, and built for long ageing. The 2024 Châteauneuf-du-Pape whites stand out in particular, combining richness of texture, exceptional aromatic purity, and remarkable tension. Many of these white cuvées rank among the greatest successes of the appellation, capable of ageing for twenty years or more. At Best Vintage, the 2024 Châteauneuf-du-Pape whites rated by Jeb Dunnuck offer a rare opportunity for lovers of fine gastronomic white wines.
Jeb Dunnuck’s top-rated Châteauneuf-du-Pape on Best Vintage
The category you are browsing brings together the 2023 and 2024 Châteauneuf-du-Pape cuvées that received the highest ratings in the Southern Rhône 2023 and 2024: Focusing on Châteauneuf-du-Pape report. The wines are organized by rating, vintage, and availability date, allowing you to identify at a glance the bottles not to be missed. Some cuvées are available immediately, while others are offered as future allocations, giving you the opportunity to reserve the rarest and most sought-after wines today.
Each product page highlights the Jeb Dunnuck rating, the full tasting note, the estimated drinking window, and our own food-pairing recommendations. This allows you to decide whether to open your bottles in the early years to enjoy their youthful fruit, or to let them mature slowly in the cellar so they can reveal their full complexity.
How to use notes to build your cellar
High ratings from Jeb Dunnuck are an excellent starting point for building a coherent Châteauneuf-du-Pape cellar. Wines scoring 98, 99 or 100 points are often the flagship cuvées of each estate and represent the most accomplished expression of a terroir or grape variety. They deserve long ageing and will naturally shine at exceptional meals and special occasions. Slightly less spectacular wines, though still very highly rated, can form the ideal core of a cellar for the next ten years.
At Best Vintage, we recommend combining both the 2023 and 2024 vintages. The 2023 wines offer immediate pleasure with their sunny fruit and velvety texture, while the 2024s bring more tension, structure, and the ability to age gracefully, making them perfect for gastronomic cuisine. By mixing styles and maturities, you build a dynamic cellar capable of adapting to every occasion, from an informal dinner to a festive, elaborate meal.
Best Vintage: your reference cellar in Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Best Vintage, located in the heart of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, stands as a true tasting cellar offering estate-level pricing, a wide selection of older vintages, and a carefully curated range of the appellation’s top domaines. The wines rated by Jeb Dunnuck that you find in this category are available in limited quantities, often on allocation, with the aim of staying as close as possible to the producers’ own pricing.
Whether you order online at thebestvintage.fr or visit us at the tasting cellar, our team is here to guide you through these prestigious selections, help you understand each domaine’s style, the specific characteristics of the 2023 and 2024 vintages, and choose the cuvées that best match your taste and your plans for drinking or cellaring.
An invitation to discover the great Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines rated by Jeb Dunnuck
As you browse this page, you’re not simply looking at a list of wines but at a true selection of references endorsed by one of the world’s most respected critics. Jeb Dunnuck’s ratings and tasting notes, combined with our expertise as specialists in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, give you a clear guide for building or expanding your cellar with complete confidence.
Take the time to explore the different cuvées, compare the 2023 and 2024 vintages, and spot the bottles that speak to you. Some may become your new benchmarks, while others will be saved for a special moment. In every case, these wines rated by Jeb Dunnuck offer a rare opportunity to experience the very best that Châteauneuf-du-Pape can produce, today and twenty years from now.