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| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2023 (based on 82 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 19 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by indiscriminate palate on 9/8/2021 & rated 88 points: Slightly lifted, slightly candied assortment of berries with a bit of sappy, herbal notes on a fairly rich-bodied somewhat low-structured frame. Enjoyable. (686 views) | | | Tasted by indiscriminate palate on 4/26/2021 & rated 88 points: Cranberry, pomegranate, blackberry, and sap carry a slightly lifted, fruity, bright palate with low firm tannin and medium acid. Tannin build toward the long, red-fruited and herbal finish. (750 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 8/8/2018 & rated 89 points: Mauve tinged rim; a rush of fruit & crushed rock on the nose; forceful, robust fruit, refreshing acidity; plenty of vigour on a finish with presence. Yet to peak. (1275 views) | | | Tasted by mgjr83 on 5/12/2018 & rated 92 points: Bottle 4 of 5, consistent with previous bottles except that I don’t get that avalanche of red fruit anymore. It is still a great wine and excellent value but dropping it a point as it is not showing as well as last bottle. (2055 views) | | | Tasted by foobarski on 3/26/2018 & rated 90 points: Bright and fruity. Read a recommendation of Beaujolais to pair with white beans and ham (or smoked sausage in this case) - spot on! (2076 views) | | | Tasted by TheBosWineGuy on 2/7/2018 & rated 89 points: I get tons of fruit on the nose hinting at berries and perhaps some raspberry compote dominating overall. The palate offers a lot for the money but given the rich vintage, the whole cluster fermentation comes through too much for me and the sweetness is not entirely balanced by the acidity - it's a bit sappy, which is something I don't count on with Gamay. (1508 views) | | | Tasted by wineshlub on 12/18/2017 & rated 92 points: Popped and poured. Aroma of cassis and menthol. Rich flavors of black fruit and spice. Pleasantly bitter finish.
I would like to think that if I tasted this blind I would pick up the gamay notes that are there if you look for them, but sadly I would probably have guessed that this was a Bordeaux. A good one. In any event, this is a great value no matter what you want to call it. (1535 views) | | | Tasted by Kmoose on 12/16/2017 & rated 92 points: Excellent strawberry. Rustic fruit-forward. (1109 views) | | | Tasted by theRealPepe on 12/12/2017 & rated 91 points: A mistake to have purchased just one. This has the Chanrion earthiness and iron married to just-ripe-enough fruit to make an incredibly well-drinking Beaujolais. A tiny little green streak rounds it out. Most of the 2015s seem to be more potential and showing more power underneath the obvious ripeness; but this one is just perfect for drinking now. Excellent. (531 views) | | | Tasted by Kmoose on 12/7/2017 & rated 93 points: Intense strawberry jam nose. Wonderful. (489 views) | | | Tasted by WMWG on 10/12/2017 & rated 87 points: Similar to my last bottle. This is a good producer to follow in 2015, the house style does well to offset the ripeness and vibrancy of the vintage. Wine shows dark magenta-toned fruit with notes of pepper, black berries and of hinting leafy note on the periphery. Most notable is the cool stoniness that runs through the middle of this, giving great lift and brightness. Fruit does tast a touch candied. Pretty nose and long, long saturating finish.
Good to Very Good. - drink now (527 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 5/17/2017 & rated 89 points: Mauve tinged rim, well coloured; voluminous fruit, showy, blueberries; supple, decent backbone & a certain gravitas but ultimately it's about the unabashed fruit. This will age but why bother waiting to defer enjoyment? [13%] (561 views) | | | Tasted by christyler on 5/11/2017 & rated 90 points: Brambly red fruit on the nose. Very mouthfulling - a big Brouilly that still retains great acidity and lift. Just a tad spiky, but overall it handles the vintage really well. (1407 views) | | | Tasted by We Can Share the Wine on 4/26/2017 & rated 94 points: Blamo! (1082 views) | | | Tasted by PIntag on 3/24/2017 & rated 90 points: Pretty much agree with everything VINNUT writes in his recent note. This cuvee is usually on the more rustic side in normal vintages - not so in this ripe 2015 vintage, which suits it well. (1075 views) | | | Tasted by Vinnut on 1/31/2017 & rated 90 points: Deep, dark, purple in color. Full, forward & attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of strawberries, blueberries & red cherries with overtones of floral notes of violets & earthy/dusty notes, spices, herbs & a hint of minerals. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, lush, ripe red fruit flavors of cherries, pomegranates & strawberries with spices, earthy, herbs & a hint of minerals. Lingering finish. Drinks quite well at present but has the fruit & structure for continued development with an additional couple of years or more of further aging. Overall, the 2015 vintage appears have richness, depth & structure to the wines which show some ability to age. (1183 views) | | | Tasted by WMWG on 12/29/2016 & rated 88 points: Vibrant, snappy fruit showing purple, red, and blue tones. Palate has some blueberry tones, slightly candied but contrasted by a roasted espresso bean note on the backside. Lots of volume on the fruit here with tense soil notes underneath and a hint of an, almost undetectable, herbal note. On day two the fruit lost some of its density, taking on a more supple personality. Good finish, lengthy and persistent; makes you want to take another sip.
Very Good – 88 Pts Drinking well now, though some time could dial down the fruit, if one wishes (645 views) |
| By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (1/26/2018)
(Domaine de la Voute des Crozes Côte-de-Brouilly, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Christelle Guibert
Decanter, Keystone Reviews Migration 4 (2/23/2017)
(Nicole Chanrion, Domaine de la Voûte des Crozes, Beaujolais, Côte de Brouilly, Burgundy, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (2/10/2017)
(Domaine de la Voute des Crozes Côte-de-Brouilly, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, 2015 Beaujolais Part 2: A Vintage of Richness and Energy (Jan 2017) (1/1/2017)
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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)
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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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