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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.3 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 14 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Eudemis on 11/28/2023: 12.5% alcohol. Short cork of good quality with no wine penetration; a fair amount of tartrate deposits. The colour is ruby with some translucence and no sign of ageing.
Lovely fresh nose of redcurrant with a slight earthy note; smelling this brings a smile to my face. The mouth is equally pleasing with well judged acidity and again that earthy note which adds interest.
A wine that majors on purity rather than complexity, and this is exactly what I expect from a Beaujolais.
A super buy. (134 views) | | | Tasted by Eudemis on 7/9/2023: 12.5% alcohol. Very short cork of pretty high quality. The colour is pale ruby, close to translucent but with no sign of ageing.
The nose is intense and pure with fresh redcurrant. Similarly balanced in the mouth with excellent freshness, and a nearly piercing quality.
Compared to yesterday's Janin MàV, the present wine is undeniably simpler, but yet very satisfying for those who don't mind high acidity (and those who do mind have no business drinking Beaujolais, so there!).
In excellent condition; the durability of the better made Beaujolais is often underestimated in my view. (172 views) | | | Tasted by Eudemis on 3/17/2022: 12.5% alcohol. Very short cork of good quality. Medium colour.
Aromatic nose with mixed red berries, a faint powdery aspect and a definite amylic note. Deliciously fruity in the mouth with just the right refreshing acidity. Coped admirably with slow roast pork belly.
A textbook Beaujolais and excellent value for money. (323 views) | | | Tasted by MLipton on 2/28/2021: Floral nose and cranberryish red fruit in the mouth. Quite balanced with moderate alcohol and acids in proportion to the fruit. Overall, a pleasure to drink. (415 views) | | | Tasted by Eudemis on 5/7/2020: 12.5% alcohol. Good short cork. Medium ruby colour.
The nose is intensely floral (I can't put my finger on the simile), with redcurrant added. The mouth follows suit, very aromatic with cranberries, some liquorice and high (but nor piercing) acidity.
Very slight of body but with plenty of substance all the same. Maybe not quite as impressive as the 2015, but vg nevertheless, in a different style. A textbook Beaujolais, close in spirit to a primeur but more stable.
A repeat purchase. (625 views) | | | Tasted by Eudemis on 4/6/2020: 12.5% alcohol. Short cork, synthetic looking (not Diam) with very little wine penetration. Bright youthful colour.
Intensely fruity nose with redcurrant, cranberry and bonbon Anglais. The mouth is in the same vein, extremely refreshing but not without depth or length. There is substantial acidity, but it is not piercing.
A textbook Beaujolais of the high-pitched variety, and a repeat purchase.
Very different from the 2015 which was much fuller and plusher (and was in that sense less classic but extremely seductive); I like both. (547 views) | | | Tasted by PSPatrick on 8/21/2019 & rated 88 points: Bright medium ruby. Fragrant nose. Floral notes, cherry, mixed berries, raspberry, blackberry, and underripe plum, complemented by hints of earth and smoky mineral notes, with crunchy acidity, ripe, medium tannin and very good length. Medium-bodied, with lots of upfront fruit, but followed by smoky mineral notes and a herbaceous finish, with good grip. Thinner, with pronounced acidity and less substance on day two. Good value. Drink young. (716 views) | | | Tasted by BarrelFermented on 7/5/2019 & rated 88 points: Crunchy, primary, very floral. Clean and fresh, lacks concentration and depth. (505 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 3/19/2019: nose- brambleberry, touch of road tar
mouth - generous berry flavors on the attack with a clean midpalate and a somewhat short finish with a nice tinge of acidity. fruity and upfront pleasing more than elegant. great with dinner (557 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 11/24/2018: old vine Beaujolais
nose - raspberry
mouth - clean, tart red fruit, sour plum, good verve, (529 views) | | | Tasted by redtooth113 on 10/15/2018 & rated 92 points: One of the best wines for under $20 I've had. Would not have guessed Beaujolais. Drinks more like a communal burgundy--fresh, fruity, lively but with some earthy complexity. Not for aging, but a tremendous value. (570 views) | | | Tasted by fred o. on 9/22/2018 & rated 92 points: dark ruby color. Flavors of carbonic cherries, bright fruit, some earthy complexity. A bit young, I think, but has good balance and intriguing earthy/herbal notes. (690 views) | | | Tasted by OaktownRush on 8/11/2018 & rated 87 points: Enjoyable and serious Gamay. Low tannins and low to moderate acidity. Notes of tomato leaf, subtle smoke, berry and forest floor. Still somewhat easy drinking. Definitely drink now. (532 views) | | | Tasted by Pascal on 4/15/2018 & rated 83 points: A bien accompagné un magret de canard. Longueur moyenne, une carrure surprenante pour un "Beaujolais". (624 views) |
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JebDunnuck.com, Importer Highlight: New Releases from Peter Weygandt (5/22/2019)
(Pierre-Marie Chermette Coeur De Vendanges Red) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2018, Issue #75, Beaujolais Trip Spring 2018 Tasting More 2016s and Older Vintages
(Beaujolais ‘Coeur de Vendanges” Vieilles Vignes- Domaines Chermette) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, 2016 Beaujolais: Hail, Yes (Mar 2018) (3/18/2018)
(Domaine Du Vissoux/pierre-marie Chermette Beaujolais Coeur De Vendanges Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (1/26/2018)
(Domaine du Vissoux Beaujolais Coeur de vendanges Vignes Centenaires, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Jan/Feb 2018, Issue #73, More From the Superb 2016 Beaujolais Vintage
(Beaujolais “Coeur de Vendanges”- Pierre-Marie Chermette) Login and sign up and see review text. |
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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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