Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 13% alcohol. Tasted blind.

Deep, dark and moderately translucent cherry red color with a somewhat youthful hue. Youthful, fruity and slightly reductive nose with aromas of gunpowder smoke, some sweet dark-toned fruits, a little bit of toasty oak, light plummy tones and a hint of licorice. The wine is youthful, fruity and medium-to-moderately full-bodied on the palate with flavors of ripe blackberries, some sweet black raspberries, a little bit of wild strawberries, light licorice tones, a spicy hint of toasty oak and a subtly reductive touch of gunpowder smoke. The wine is textural and quite firm with its moderately high alcohol and firm medium tannins. The finish is ripe, moderately tannic and lengthy with quite dry flavors of ripe black cherries, some stony minerality, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light blackberry tones, a hint of savory wood spice and a touch of sweet plummy fruit.

A brooding, muscular and quite dark-toned Gamay that tastes more like South Africa than Beaujolais. As the wine was popped and poured, it didn't have any time to blow its reduction off, which lent a somewhat smoky and slightly flinty touch to both the nose and the taste. Overall quite enjoyable, but perhaps lacking distinction - up to the point that it wasn't particularly recognizable as a Gamay. Good, but nothing special to write home about. Priced somewhat according to its quality at 16,99€.

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