2015 Domaine des Terres Dorées (Jean-Paul Brun) Côte de Brouilly
Community Tasting Note
forceberry wrote:
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - Vinified without sulfites, fermented spontaneously with natural yeasts, macerated for 3-4 weeks and aged for 6-8 weeks in concrete. Bottled with light filtration and a small addition of sulfites. 12,5% alcohol.
Youthful, somewhat translucent dark ruby color. Very big, brooding and quite ripe nose with vibrant aromas of ripe blackberries and boysenberries, sweet raspberries, some strawberry jam and slightly earthy tones. You really can notice the warm vintage in the sweetness here. The wine is medium-bodied, very youthful and quite dense on the palate with dry, concentrated and even somewhat robust flavors of tart cranberries, sour cherry bitterness, some crunchy crowberries, a little bit of peppery spice, a hint of earthiness and a touch of fresh red plums. Overall the wine feels quite sinewy and muscular - the ripeness and sweetness in the nose are conspicuously absent from the taste. The wine is quite seriously structured for a Beaujolais with its high acidity and moderately grippy tannins. The finish is young, crunchy and pretty tannic with noticeable astringent grip and concentrated, tough flavors of tart cranberries, sour cherry bitterness, some peppery spice, a little bit of fresh brambly blackberry and a hint of earthiness.
Normally the 2015 Beaujolais wines have been too sweet, soft and big for my palate, and although this wine seemed to go into that direction by its nose, it turned out to be a very classically built, serious and crunchy Gamay of the highest quality on the palate. True to the Brun style, this isn't a light and playful expression of Gamay, but instead a dead-serious, muscular and stern powerhouse that isn't as big as it is intense and tightly-knit. Overall the wine feels all too young and it could easily use another 6-10 years to tone that sinewy structure down. Most likely the wine will keep for much longer. Simply delicious stuff, very highly recommended. Ridiculous value at only 13,95€.
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Comment posted by seemore glass:
12/31/2019 10:36:00 AM - I really like your descriptions and generosity with words. Your reviews give a lot of attention to the physique of a wine - the build, structure and texture - which I find most meaningful. By the way, I'm a major fan of J-P Brun's wines vintage after vintage.
Comment posted by forceberry:
2/3/2020 7:00:00 AM - I'm with you, I am a big fan of Brun's muscular, more Burgundian style of Bojo as well! Solid stuff year in year out.
And thanks for the positive words! I try to write such tasting notes I'd love to read myself.