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| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2014 (based on 6 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.8 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 27 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by CreativeCPA on 1/24/2020: Found this in our cellar. I was worried it would be dead and it might be. It is a little musty on the nose. Still bright cherry red color. The flavors is raspberry tart but it's not very flavorful. There is little must on the tongue too. It's definitely on the edge of going bad. (833 views) | | | Tasted by Mark Larson on 5/30/2016 & rated 91 points: Fruit in front but more earthy notes are beginning to emerge. Plenty of life ahead. (2639 views) | | | Tasted by zscheiner on 3/18/2013 & rated 87 points: Blind Tasting 2009 Cru Beaujolais (Rich & Peggy's House, Los Altos, CA): Sweet raspberry, pixy stix nose. Medium to high acidity, high toned raspberry fruit. Nice, but a touch shrill. (my 6th, group's 3rd) (5326 views) | | | Tasted by Vino2Vino on 10/4/2012 & rated 86 points: A bit tart, but nice earthy nose and good fruit. (4965 views) | | | Tasted by bcmatthias on 8/18/2012 & rated 89 points: Quite good. Dark red fruit, some smokiness. (4081 views) | | | Tasted by pinothoarder on 4/22/2012 & rated 89 points: Decanted 1 hour and consumed over 3 hours. The back end is where it really shined; will decant 2 hours next time. A really fantastic value at $20. Cherry and a little bit of iron/rust elements on the nose that gives it just right touch of complexity. Acidity is nicely balanced. I agree with the 2-3 year drinking window. (4714 views) | | | Tasted by Border Boss on 2/26/2012 & rated 89 points: A very nice wine with a great nose of raspberries. The color is still purple but with a reddish rim. The palate is very fruit forward with red berries, with a decent amount of acid to give it some complexity. Not nearly as big and muscular as the 2009 Cru bottlings from Marcel Lapierre, Damien Coquelet, or Jean-Paul Brun, but a very fine representative of the great 2009 vintage. Drink over the next 2-3 years. (3492 views) | | | Tasted by pbaek on 1/21/2012: Skurnik import. Fresh and lively wine with an energetic palate of bright cranberry/red plum/cherry, flowers, spices and earth. Very pure in its expression and quite delicious. (2273 views) | | | Tasted by drinkfunkyanddance on 1/7/2012: From memory. Drank this a while back, remembering it was a little bit burly but still rocking. I'd hold this one for a bit. (1872 views) | | | Tasted by Katie&Mike on 12/31/2011 & rated 90 points: Love this wine. A great pairing with Peking duck. (1668 views) | | | Tasted by kdsipe on 12/11/2011 & rated 90 points: Subdued, elegant, dark, weighty, smooth and polished. Good fruit, round, full, long, dry and crunchy. Rich for the genre. New world-y and yet very Beaujolais. A good match with poached chicken and polenta. (1742 views) | | | Tasted by tekygeek on 11/19/2011 & rated 90 points: Fruit forward with excellent structure, ever so slight bubble gummy character, and a nicely balanced earthiness without being 'dirty'. A real crowd pleaser and an excellent way to introduce Beaujolais to your friends. Highly recommended. (1754 views) | | | Tasted by TimF on 10/26/2011: This wine shocked me. Either it was really, really good or I really, really needed a drink tonight. Heaviest mouthfeel on a Beaujolais that I can ever remember. Tons of fruit with classic gamay/Beaujolais characteristics on the palate. It's been a while since I've wanted to go buy a case of wine at a price point this low. (2580 views) | | | Tasted by The Count on 10/19/2011: Good now, I expect even better in a year. (1798 views) | | | Tasted by brian przyzycki on 4/16/2011 & rated 90 points: Beautiful ruby color with thick legs. Flower garden boquet. Cherry (not sour) fruit with a musty iron and spice finish. Lighter than it looks. This may be the bottle to drink now while your other cru-boos are aging. Not sure if this is one to hang on to. Take this with a grain of salt as I am not an experience beaujolais drinker and only jumped on the 09' bandwagon. (2381 views) | | | Tasted by greenwalter on 2/20/2011 & rated 89 points: This shows what 2009 is all about. Simple, full, lip smacking and delicious. (2465 views) | | | Tasted by GrapeScott on 1/31/2011 & rated 90 points: Dark ruby. Nose shows bright cherry and raspberry fruit with a hint of vegetal notes/stemminess and a bit of alchoholic heat (13.5% is a bit high for this region, but the alcohol was not noticeable on the palate). Lovely but rustic flavors, marked by pomegranate, slate, matchstick, bay leaf, and fennel. Medium bodied, sauve, moderately complex, low-moderate acidity, with a smooth lingering finish. A very well made wine that seems to have mid-term aging potential, though lacking some of the 'bite' of many wines of the vintage. (2770 views) | | | Tasted by enorrbin on 1/15/2011 & rated 90 points: Dark fruit on the nose. Bright fruit, leather and chocolate. Mineral and game on the finish, slightly sweet. Complex, very good QPR. (2692 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 1/7/2011 & rated 91 points: 2009 Burgundy Preview: North Berkeley Imports Tasting (Artisan Wine Depot, Mountain View, California): Dark magenta color; wild berry, plum, white pepper nose; tight, tart berry, red currant, raspberry, mineral palate with grip; medium-plus finish (2823 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 11/6/2010: 2009 Cru Beaujolais-North Berkeley and Others (Beltramo's, Menlo Park): Restrained nose with more earth than fruit. Light, lively, savory, and dry with green herbs and excellent soil tones. An altogether more serious version of Regnie than the Colette that preceded it. (3296 views) | | | Tasted by maxmanx on 8/4/2010 & rated 91 points: My first experience with the 2009 Beaujolais, and this was a great bottle! Interesting flavors with an almost pinot-like fruitiness and an underlying earthiness. Great QPR! (3270 views) | | | Tasted by sehill on 8/3/2010 & rated 90 points: Opened and poured, this wine showed ripe forward primary fruit on the bouquet. The wine shows a medium bodied palate that is balanced and has just enough tannin and acidity on the finish to keep it interesting. The palate finishes with subtle stone and iron notes that give the wine some nuance and keep the fruit from becoming the dominating factor. (2932 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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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 Régnié On weinlagen-info
The work of 120 wine growers, Régnié is the youngest of the Beaujolais crus! In fact, it wasn’t until 1988 that this appellation was officially recognised. But the newcomer in the family has got a lot to offer. Its favourable geographical location, in between its two brothers, Brouilly and Morgon, produces wines of a unique fruitiness.
For those who would like to learn more about the world of wine, Régnié wines remain affordable and are an excellent way to gain better understanding of Beaujolais crus.
It is the last of the Beaujolais Cru since its classification decree was signed in 1988. Its surface is 400 ha. The vineyard surrounding the two bell towers of Régnié-Durette, produces a supple and well-built wine, with a cherry color, purple hues with aromas of redcurrant, blackberry and raspberry. |
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