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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.1 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 92 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by David Paris (dbp) on 12/25/2023 flawed bottle: First bottle opened from a solid case, and first bottle consumed in 11 years. Wine was completely and horribly oxidized. I suspect a one off flawed bottle. Will open another very soon and expect a better showing. Weird. (231 views) | | | Tasted by bhouk on 1/3/2023: Pretty little wine, juicy, with raspberries, violets, and flaky minerality. A joy to drink and in a very appealing state. (870 views) | | | Tasted by chcook on 12/31/2022: Last bottle. Structure softening but so is the fruit. Drank alongside the ‘20 which was sooo fruit laden. Drink up I think. (770 views) | | | Tasted by nicefish on 4/11/2021 & rated 90 points: Surprisingly fresh, but a little muted. Cherry and cranberry on the palate. (1188 views) | | | Tasted by bg3034 on 1/27/2021 & rated 87 points: PnP through Nuance Wine Finer. Thin and tart. May be past its age at this point. 87-pts. Aloha! (1155 views) | | | Tasted by bmisamore@comcast.net on 1/9/2021 & rated 85 points: Definitely showing its age and not at all unique. It opened up after a while, but still nothing to write home about. (1099 views) | | | Tasted by CWilliam on 12/10/2020 & rated 90 points: At peak. PNP and paired with grilled Arctic Char - Light red color with strong gradient from rim to center. On nose, strawberry, wet rocks, tart cherry and earth/mushrooms. Palate was more fruit oriented (strawberry, cranberry) with some nice minerality. Medium body, medium acidity, integrated tannins (still there) and medium finish. Enjoyable if in the mood for a lighter bodied wine. Excellent QPR. 90+/- (964 views) | | | Tasted by sababa1022 on 12/9/2020 & rated 80 points: Some typicality but thin, tart and not worth the effort. (972 views) | | | Tasted by bhouk on 6/30/2020: Bright, crunchy red fruit and dark cola bean. Tastes much younger than its 10 years. This is quite good but not sure it is/was worth cellaring. It was good out of the gate and hasn’t really developed much in the nuances age can bring. Still a buyer of the wine though. An agreeable and versatile table wine. (570 views) | | | Tasted by Quarked on 5/29/2020 & rated 90 points: Nice texture and flavor profile, with cranberries and dried strawberries and some wood. But very clean and bright, not weak or sour at all. Very good over two nights, but best on second. (595 views) | | | Tasted by SoundinBetween on 12/4/2018: delicious, probably close to peak from trying several other vintages just a bit older than this. no detailed notes taken. (1352 views) | | | Tasted by TowerCellar on 10/15/2018 & rated 80 points: There was nothing overtly bad with the wine, except that it lacked flavor and was extremely weak. I suspect this is fast past its prime. (1510 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 12/13/2017: Not specifically faulted, but not good. Weedy, thin, acerbic, underripe, weak. Unpleasant. Poured it out. Damn. (1980 views) | | | Tasted by mdefreitas on 6/4/2017 & rated 88 points: A serious tart, cranberry and granite infused wine, but the tannins are still quite prominent. Perhaps I should have decanted more. This could definitely evolve in the bottle as it was still quite youthful and fresh. (2583 views) | | | Tasted by ChrisWagner on 4/28/2017 & rated 90 points: Very nice. (2380 views) | | | Tasted by chcook on 9/3/2016: PNP. Color dark ruby. Nose has sappy cranberry fruit. Palate on the light side with prominent structure. I don't think that the fruit will outlive the structure and don't intend to find out. Will drink remainder soon. (2803 views) | | | Tasted by thebonnydooner on 5/25/2016 & rated 88 points: Bright and fresh still with nice acidity and nice medium weight cherry fruit. (2899 views) | | | Tasted by Sijan on 1/21/2016 & rated 90 points: This is just an excellent food wine with good acid and fresh fruit that can pair well with a wide variety of foods, including unusual or acidic foods, like corned beef. (2656 views) | | | Tasted by BenPL on 11/11/2015 & rated 85 points: Good avec la raclette (1679 views) | | | Tasted by Troon on 10/2/2015 & rated 91 points: Drinking very well right now. There is some minor notes of earth that you get from an aged wine now. This is an absolutely fantastic QPR. The fruit is still present, but it is well balanced. This was my last bottle, and I wish I had more. These wines are great with a few years on them. (2328 views) | | | Tasted by Brian Love on 5/15/2015 & rated 88 points: Just meh. Not bad, not memorable. Presumably decent for the price. (2190 views) | | | Tasted by cse on 4/12/2015 & rated 90 points: needs time to open up but the nose, once open, is wondrous indeed. on the palate it never quite lives up to the soaring nose but i could spend all night with that nose... (2013 views) | | | Tasted by Surfdoc on 3/27/2015 & rated 89 points: Bright cranberry flavor with a streak of minerality. (2044 views) | | | Tasted by tooch on 1/24/2015 & rated 90 points: Lots of crunchy fruits and soil tones. Definitely needed a lot of air for the palate to open up. Filled up with raspberries, cranberries, and floral notes, this was a delightful Beaujolais. (2649 views) | | | Tasted by bhouk on 7/5/2014: Went great with a whole chicken on the Big Green Egg. Very bright and high-toned, crisp red fruit. I liked this from release, but it has really hit its stride. (2789 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, February 2012
(Domaine du Pavillon de Chavannes Cote de Brouilly Cuvee des Ambassades) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jon Rimmerman
Garagiste (5/25/2011)
(AMBASSADES Pavillon de Chavannes) 2010 Ambassades Dear Friends, For me, this is as close to a “heart of Garagiste” wine as we encounter. Pavillon de Chavannes “Cuvee des Ambassades” is a core item non plus ultra – it pulses with the blood of the Cote de Brouilly and is arguably among the most important wines in all of France (thus its designation as the wine to be served in French embassies around the world to showcase exactly what it means to be French – all within the constraints of a bottle). While Cuvee des Ambassades may seem inexpensive for Burgundy, I can’t think of a wiser investment in terroir, elegance, minerality and a story that touches the lips of the taster with each sip. I’ve told the story of Cuvee des Ambassades so many times but it is always worth rehashing as the historic value to French culture and a certain sense of elegance and smug reserve shines so brightly in this wine. In a sort of Kevin Bacon game, the uprising of farmers against the Nazi aggression and a turning of the tide in WWII can be circuitously traced to this vineyard - the large tree that stands at its highest point still retains the bullets and wounds of an entire country. From the most successful vintage they can remember in this storied vineyard, the 2010 is (in their words) a masterpiece. It is everything they’ve wished for in this wine and have had in individual vintages but never in one bottle. It is feline, powerful, pure, rocky, sultry, satin, grace, intelligent, bright, brash, taut, demure...and very long. It is the essence of the Cote de Brouilly and of the old-vines that make up the deeply pitched and light-medium weight character that some have called “delicate red fruit and rocks, with the most perfect French accent, all thrown together in a Cuisinart”. For several recent critical reviews, including one of my own missives on the importance and history of this wine, please see this Vintage 59 link: http://www.vintage59.com/pdf/pavillon_de_chavannes_review.pdf VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and a certain contended for my wine of the year. This parcel is directly from the winery cellar with perfect provenance – hardly any of the 2010 is coming to the US and it will not be widely distributed (unlike last year’s 2009). FIRST COME FIRST SERVED up to 24/person until we run out 2010 Pavillon de Chavannes Cote de Brouilly “Cuvee des Ambassades” - (we will keep the tariff the same as last year despite the dollar’s decline) To order: nicki@garagistewine.com This parcel is set to depart the cave – it will arrive in the summer (please check OARS for local pick-up in July). It will ship during the Fall shipping season. Drink 2014-2025+ (this wine is known to age for years – it typically require 2-3 years after bottling to come into its own and then follows a slow path of evolution over a decade or more) Out of state orders will be held for free under ideal storage conditions (56 degrees/70%humidity) until shipping is possible. Locals may pick up at their leisure. For current local pick up and arrival/ship information, please see your OARS link below (at the bottom of this offer) - don’t know how to access your OARS? Simply click the link and see your account. You can also paste the link into your browser. If you are having trouble with your link or your account, please contact: support@garagistewine.com NO SALES TO RETAILERS OR WHOLESALERS Thank you, Jon Rimmerman Garagiste Seattle, WA Burg9265 |
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Beaujolais Vins du Beaujolais (L’Union des Vignerons du Beaujolais)
The vineyards on weinlagen-info
Wine Scholar Guild Vintage Chart & Ratings
# 2009 Vintage Notes:
"There will be a lot of absolutely delicious Beaujolais to try in 2009, as it is indeed a very good, atypically ripe and opulent vintage for Beaujolais. As others here have mentioned, the Louis-Dressner and Kermit Lynch portfolios cover many of the very best estates (with an honorable mention for importer Weygandt-Metzler), and just choosing from their strip labels is a very good jumping off point. As a quick primer, the three best Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages producers that I regularly cross paths with are the aformentioned Jean-Paul Brun and his Domaine Terres Dorées, Pierre Chermette of Domaine du Vissoux and Domaine Dupeuble from the Kermit Lynch's portfolio. I also find the Beaujolais-Villages from Joseph Drouhin consistently excellent and very classic in style and like all of this firm's Beaujolais, a completely underrated source for very top drawer Crus and B-Villages.
Amongst the Cru Beaujolais, it is important to keep in mind(again as folks have mentioned already) that certain villages tend to produce much more structured wines, and this will be very evident in a powerful vintage like 2009. In general terms, the wines from Moulin-a-Vent, Morgon and Cote de Brouilly are going to demand a bit of bottle age to really start to drink well in 2009, and these may not be the best growers to focus on when tasting through the vintage to draw your own conclusions. But in these appellations, if you keep in mind that what you are tasting is likely going to need five years of bottle age to really blossom from these crus, you cannot go wrong with Kermit Lynch's "Gang of Five" producers- Thevenet, Lapierre, Foillard, Breton are four of the five- as well as Georges Descombes and Louis et Claude Desvignes from Louis-Dressner. I also like very much the Morgons made by Louis Jadot and Joseph Drouhin for the big houses, and Jean-Paul Brun also makes a very good example of Morgon.
In Moulin-a-Vent, Louis Jadot's Chateau des Jacques makes a very good range- though always structured when young- and Bernard Diochon is excellent year in and year out. Pierre Chermette also makes superb Moulin-a-Vent and the Drouhin version is consistently exceptional. In Cote de Brouilly, the two most exciting producers are Nicole Chanrion and Chateau Thivin (both represented by Kermit Lynch). The Chanrion is usually very accessible out of the blocks for this very stony terroir (it is an extinct volcano), while the Chateau Thivin bottlings demand time and are usually tight and structured when young. Better to try the delicious straight Brouilly from Chateau Thivin if you want to drink one of their wines out of the blocks, as that never demands patience and is lovely.
In the less structured Cru villages, wines I particularly like are the aformentioned Clos de la Roilette in Fleurie (they are the Chateau Yquem of the village- though their vines are right on the Moulin-a-Vent border and the wine used to be sold as Moulin-a-Vent before the AOC went into effect, so they are a bit more structured than most Fleuries), Cedric Chignard, Jean-Paul Brun and Pierre Chermette are all very, very good sources. Domaine Diochon in Moulin-a-Vent also makes a good Fleurie, as does Joseph Drouhin. In general these will be more floral, open and sappy bottles of Beaujolais out of the blocks and they will be delicious from the get-go.
In St. Amour, Domaine des Billards makes absolutely brilliant wines and is one of my favorite producers in all of Beaujolais. In Julienas, Michel Tete is the star producer, but I also like the Drouhin bottling from here very well indeed. There are many more outstanding bottlings to be found scattered thorughout the crus and I am sure that I am forgetting several worthy estates, but this at least will give you a good "to do" list to get started with the vintage. The only '09s I have tasted thus far are the Joseph Drouhin wines, which I tasted through in Beaune in March, and they are deep, sappy and beautifully soil-driven. If all the other top estates have made wines in this style, then this is indeed going to be a very special vintage for the region. But with the wines from Morgon and Moulin-a-Vent, you may do better trying a few bottles from either the 2006 or 2007 vintage if you can find them well-stored, as these are less structured vintages and both are beginning to really drink well from these villages." - John Gilman
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"The 2014 vintage in Beaujolais is absolutely terrific and probably, along with 2011, the best vintage in the region since 2005. The region has had a bit of a rollercoaster ride in the last few years, with an absolutely phenomenal vintage in 2011 (particularly for those of us who like to age our Beaujolais for several years prior to serving), one of the most difficult growing seasons in recent memory in 2012, a good, solid classic vintage in 2013, and now, again, another truly outstanding vintage in 2014." - John Gilman
"2014 [...] vintage is a return to the mineral-cracked freshness and explosive low-alcohol red fruit the cru level wines of this region are famous for but have lacked since 2010/2011 (without the potentially hard/green/diffuse/underripe character found in many 2012/2013's)." - Jon Rimmerman
"the 2014s exhibit lively berry and floral character punctuated by zesty minerality. The wines are concentrated yet not heavy, and show good structure without coming off as outsized. Many producers I visited in June described the wines as a hybrid of the 2010s and 2011s, combining the structure of the earlier vintage and the fruit intensity of the latter. As such, the 2014s, as a group, are hugely appealing right now but I have no doubt that they will reward another three to five years of aging. Many of the brawniest 2014s have the material to see them through a decade or more of life but by that point they’ll have little resemblance to most peoples’ notion of Beaujolais, so I’d advise drinking almost all of the ‘14s before they hit their tenth birthday." - Josh Raynolds
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Vinification will not be straightforward and the 2015 vintage will be a reflection of the quality of the winemaker." - Jean Loron
"the wines have the potential to age and evolve beautifully" - Michael Apstein
# 2016 Vintage Notes:
"a harvest of soft, amply fruity wines, though without the depth and density of the outstanding 2015 harvest." - Wine Scholar Guild
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Trade body InterBeaujolais has said the 2018 harvest in the region will “go down in history as a legendary vintage” alongside the likes of 2017, 2015 and 2009." - Rupert Millar
#2018 Vintage Notes:
"The heatwave of July and August led growers to anticipate rich, high-alcohol wines akin to the excellent, but atypical, 2015s. However, probably due to the reserves of groundwater accumulated prior to June 20th, the 2018s are, as a rule, fresher, with slightly higher acidity and considerably lower alcohol than their counterparts from 2015. There is, nonetheless, an appealing fleshiness or rondeur to many 2018s, which suggests they won’t keep for as long as the more mineral 2017s – which are really hitting their stride now – but makes them highly seductive from the word go.
Another interesting theme, which we encountered in wines from various domaines across different crus, is a Cabernet Franc-like leafy character towards the back of the palate, which contributes an extra degree of freshness and buvabilité." Will Heslop |
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