Grape bubblegum, blackcurrant pastilles, and mint. Loads of fresh earth and a fair bit of dried mushroom. Surprising amount of acidity. It started to fade about 3 hours in getting more earthy as time went on but still smelling of crushed blackcurrants. Lovely wine.
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Just a gorgeous, lithe, fresh gamay that still seemed to retain the vibrant fruit of its youth, but seemed to have secondary and tertiary tones of earth, roses, and cherries that weren't there years ago. I liked this very much.
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Silky, smooth, shining, tart, full of complex but subtle spice and earth elements. Still plenty of fresh red fruit for freshness, but lots of mingled spice notes that make this great to savor.
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Velvety mouthfeel, lush black cherry and plum fruit, smoke and cocoa. No tannin left, balanced acids, very good length. I'm sure this can go farther but I see no reason to. Will get to my other bottle soon and hope it's as good as this one. A-
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Opened this bottle at Peter Weygandt's store in D.C. - Peter imports this wine. Rather closed at first, a bit pruney. With passing time, seemed to get progressively finer, shedding the pruney flavor, the acid structure becoming clearer and more focused. Would have liked to try it the second day, but left the bottle there.
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Opens with a curious raisiny-pruny smell that is extremely off-putting. Don't pour it down the drain: decant it for half an hour or let it sit open overnight. Then the wine becomes lovely, light, transparent: in texture and transparency, it comes to resemble light good cote de Beaune Burgundy, but with its own, darker, ruddier flavor profile. Very good wine, very fine wine.
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Remarkably pure ... aromatic ... unmistakably gamay -- light, lively, bright acidity. Intriguing nose (spice!) -- easy to drink, not the longest finish. If you are a freak like me and still have some of this in cellar -- drink up!
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From the bottle, with modest airing, gently port-like nose, not surmature, but a kind of cakey aroma. In the mouth, gingerbread spice, texture tending to silk, rather fine, precise acidity that is ample but in check. Gone is the extravagantly plush, bofa-like engulfing fruit of this wine's youth; now it's a moderately lean with exotic flavors that stop short of being esoteric. A wine that leads me to question how essential it is to have more than a little Cote d'Or in the cellar.
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PNP, first night showed a grapey easy fruit note. Tonight it changes, has a tight core of blackberry, not over ripe blackberry but in season with acid, shows a chalk backbone that is well defined, but continues with a somewhat protruding mineral note. I would say this wine is at it's peak for the next 2-4 yrs, decant for 6 hrs to find the middle ground this wine has to offer.
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My last 2005 beaujolais, which I held onto as an experiment to see if aging resulted in interesting developments, and alas, my verdict is that this was better a couple years back - a pinkish mature color with a feintly floral nose and a soft palate of cherry and rose petal. The acidity had given way to a flatter mouthfeel, lacking the vibrance this wine showed earlier in its development.
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Medium garnet red. Rather brambly nose for Beaujolais with a vintage-appropriate dark fruit profile and burnt wood that's not quite charcoal nuance. Firm minerality tempers dark, ripe currant fruit. This is aging slowly, as are all his 2005's according to Chermette.
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Blind Bourgogne/Beaujolais tasting (CT): Really savoury aromatics, full of gravelly earth and faint stemmy notes with some black cherry flavours emerging with time. Very forward and elegant in the mouth with bright black cherry and raspberry fruit lifted by good acidity and finishing long.
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Belle concentration de petits fruits rouges, griottes et framboises. Vin de corps moyen à la fois dense et fin, avec une finale harmonieuse et fraiche. L’élevage s’est franchement bien intégré et le vin s’est épanoui depuis 2007. Je crois qu’il commence une belle période de maturité, ma dernière attendra un an ou deux pour voir s’il s’affinera encore davantage. Très beau vin de soif « sérieux » et idéal pour les températures plus chaude où on recherche la fraicheur jusque dans le vin. 90 pts
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I drank a Coudert Fleurie last night and the comparison with this wine is pretty striking. The Vissoux is so much riper with the fruit leaning towards blueberry, and the acidity seems buried under the ripeness. The structure is there, but this seems less focused and broader than the Clos de Roilette.
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Maybe starting to close up aromatically. Darker fruits, some blackberry leaf and bramble, Joyful palate with crushed rock minerals, very fresh acids and a long finish. I can get a sense what this is going to develop into with more time, the leafy pinot forest floor flavors are just starting to show up past the primary Gamey fruit. I wish I owned more of this.
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Nez de raisin frais au début qui évolue sur quelque chose de plus floral (mais quelle fleur?) Il me parait changé depuis les dernières bouteilles qui ne remontent pourtant qu’à quelques mois… plus ouvert, un rien moins tendu, pourtant une bouteille en novembre me paraissait un brin austère p/r aux précédentes, d’où la promesse…. Celle-ci est tout le contraire, exubérante, au fruit charmeur, sur les mures et les cerises. Un certain creux en milieu de bouche avant une très belle finale, ample et tellement savoureuse. Une aubaine pour 29$
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Very tasty. Quite rich and smooth, with lots of depth to the exuberant fruit. Hard to keep away from it know, but may be even better with some cellar time.
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dark cherries, very smooth texture. fresh and juicy palate, more intense than the Vissoux Beaujolais. a little bit flat, or would be fantastic. maybe we needed to leave this open a bit longer before drinking?
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Beautiful pure purple color. Initially, dark cherry aroma which has characterized so many of these '05 Beaujolais. This carried through to the palate with a core of sappy fruit, and the acidity was not as noticeable as in some of the other wines. What distinguished this one was its evolution in a Rhone rather than Burgundy direction, with secondary high tones full of spearmint and rosemary appearing over several hours open. Definitely different but another winner.
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Less energetic than a Chignard consumed recently, this Fleurie nevertheless showed a lot of sweet-tart raspberry fruit, gamey nuance, and a lush palate feel. Deserved more time and/or air.
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Dark purple/black. Muted strawberry and raspberry nose. Medium to full bodied concentrated dry red fruit. Full concentrated wine. needs time to develop. The Godzilla of Beajolais.
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Full bodied for Beaujolais, nice ripe black cherry fruit. A little tight at first, opens up fully through the night. A very pretty and classy wine that could give many Burgundies a run for their (much more expensive) money.
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5/14/2021 - rawdealbuffy Likes this wine: 91 Points
Grape bubblegum, blackcurrant pastilles, and mint. Loads of fresh earth and a fair bit of dried mushroom. Surprising amount of acidity. It started to fade about 3 hours in getting more earthy as time went on but still smelling of crushed blackcurrants. Lovely wine.
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3/12/2020 - mdvino63 wrote: flawed
Bummer, I've loved my other bottles
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5/14/2017 - mdvino63 Likes this wine: 91 Points
terrific bojo. Opened on Mothers' Day for Bonnie, who loves beaujolais, and it did not disappoint. She loves it. Violets, dark cherry. Beautiful.
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10/7/2016 - DaleW wrote:
Lovely texture, black cherries with smoke and coffee topnotes. As it airs develops more earthy/meaty notes. B+/A-
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1/9/2016 - tooch wrote: 93 Points
"this is why you age gamay"
Just a gorgeous, lithe, fresh gamay that still seemed to retain the vibrant fruit of its youth, but seemed to have secondary and tertiary tones of earth, roses, and cherries that weren't there years ago. I liked this very much.
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1/9/2016 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 91 Points
Silky, smooth, shining, tart, full of complex but subtle spice and earth elements. Still plenty of fresh red fruit for freshness, but lots of mingled spice notes that make this great to savor.
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4/10/2015 - DaleW wrote:
Velvety mouthfeel, lush black cherry and plum fruit, smoke and cocoa. No tannin left, balanced acids, very good length. I'm sure this can go farther but I see no reason to. Will get to my other bottle soon and hope it's as good as this one. A-
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1/24/2015 - fitzi wrote:
Opened this bottle at Peter Weygandt's store in D.C. - Peter imports this wine. Rather closed at first, a bit pruney. With passing time, seemed to get progressively finer, shedding the pruney flavor, the acid structure becoming clearer and more focused. Would have liked to try it the second day, but left the bottle there.
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6/13/2014 - fitzi wrote:
Opens with a curious raisiny-pruny smell that is extremely off-putting. Don't pour it down the drain: decant it for half an hour or let it sit open overnight. Then the wine becomes lovely, light, transparent: in texture and transparency, it comes to resemble light good cote de Beaune Burgundy, but with its own, darker, ruddier flavor profile. Very good wine, very fine wine.
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9/16/2013 - Floyd77 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Remarkably pure ... aromatic ... unmistakably gamay -- light, lively, bright acidity. Intriguing nose (spice!) -- easy to drink, not the longest finish. If you are a freak like me and still have some of this in cellar -- drink up!
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4/27/2013 - fitzi wrote:
From the bottle, with modest airing, gently port-like nose, not surmature, but a kind of cakey aroma. In the mouth, gingerbread spice, texture tending to silk, rather fine, precise acidity that is ample but in check. Gone is the extravagantly plush, bofa-like engulfing fruit of this wine's youth; now it's a moderately lean with exotic flavors that stop short of being esoteric. A wine that leads me to question how essential it is to have more than a little Cote d'Or in the cellar.
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4/13/2012 - Jbray wrote:
PNP, first night showed a grapey easy fruit note. Tonight it changes, has a tight core of blackberry, not over ripe blackberry but in season with acid, shows a chalk backbone that is well defined, but continues with a somewhat protruding mineral note. I would say this wine is at it's peak for the next 2-4 yrs, decant for 6 hrs to find the middle ground this wine has to offer.
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9/6/2011 - pgb67 wrote: 88 Points
My last 2005 beaujolais, which I held onto as an experiment to see if aging resulted in interesting developments, and alas, my verdict is that this was better a couple years back - a pinkish mature color with a feintly floral nose and a soft palate of cherry and rose petal. The acidity had given way to a flatter mouthfeel, lacking the vibrance this wine showed earlier in its development.
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11/22/2010 - tcfishler wrote:
Medium garnet red. Rather brambly nose for Beaujolais with a vintage-appropriate dark fruit profile and burnt wood that's not quite charcoal nuance. Firm minerality tempers dark, ripe currant fruit. This is aging slowly, as are all his 2005's according to Chermette.
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7/26/2010 - fitzi wrote:
Day one: dark, musty, voluptuous, savory. Day two, tougher, shallower, grapey.
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2/11/2010 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Blind Bourgogne/Beaujolais tasting (CT): Really savoury aromatics, full of gravelly earth and faint stemmy notes with some black cherry flavours emerging with time. Very forward and elegant in the mouth with bright black cherry and raspberry fruit lifted by good acidity and finishing long.
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5/13/2009 - d'Artagnan wrote: 90 Points
Belle concentration de petits fruits rouges, griottes et framboises. Vin de corps moyen à la fois dense et fin, avec une finale harmonieuse et fraiche. L’élevage s’est franchement bien intégré et le vin s’est épanoui depuis 2007. Je crois qu’il commence une belle période de maturité, ma dernière attendra un an ou deux pour voir s’il s’affinera encore davantage. Très beau vin de soif « sérieux » et idéal pour les températures plus chaude où on recherche la fraicheur jusque dans le vin. 90 pts
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8/20/2008 - marc d wrote:
I drank a Coudert Fleurie last night and the comparison with this wine is pretty striking. The Vissoux is so much riper with the fruit leaning towards blueberry, and the acidity seems buried under the ripeness. The structure is there, but this seems less focused and broader than the Clos de Roilette.
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6/20/2008 - marc d wrote:
Maybe starting to close up aromatically. Darker fruits, some blackberry leaf and bramble, Joyful palate with crushed rock minerals, very fresh acids and a long finish. I can get a sense what this is going to develop into with more time, the leafy pinot forest floor flavors are just starting to show up past the primary Gamey fruit. I wish I owned more of this.
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3/7/2008 - marc d wrote:
Strawberry and raspberry fruit with good balance. Still open for business and pleasurable. This bottle wasn't tart at all.
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2/28/2008 - JamesSanders wrote: 92 Points
Just laser-focused acidity and intense tart fruit. Concentration without weight or heaviness. Just a powerhouse gamay.
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1/14/2008 - d'Artagnan wrote: 90 Points
Nez de raisin frais au début qui évolue sur quelque chose de plus floral (mais quelle fleur?)
Il me parait changé depuis les dernières bouteilles qui ne remontent pourtant qu’à quelques mois… plus ouvert, un rien moins tendu, pourtant une bouteille en novembre me paraissait un brin austère p/r aux précédentes, d’où la promesse…. Celle-ci est tout le contraire, exubérante, au fruit charmeur, sur les mures et les cerises. Un certain creux en milieu de bouche avant une très belle finale, ample et tellement savoureuse. Une aubaine pour 29$
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1/5/2008 - marc d wrote:
Exuberant gamay fruit, good acidity, soft tannins, and a bunch of soul.
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10/7/2007 - marc d wrote:
Very tasty. Quite rich and smooth, with lots of depth to the exuberant fruit. Hard to keep away from it know, but may be even better with some cellar time.
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9/30/2007 - d'Artagnan wrote: 89 Points
Délicieux, droit et d'une belle profondeur avec son nez floral et ses arômes de framboises.
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9/23/2007 - gordoyflaca wrote: 91 Points
Best beaujolais we've had yet, pure, dark raspberry and herbal fruits but retains a gamay nose, some violet.
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8/5/2007 - brooklynguy wrote: 88 Points
dark cherries, very smooth texture. fresh and juicy palate, more intense than the Vissoux Beaujolais. a little bit flat, or would be fantastic. maybe we needed to leave this open a bit longer before drinking?
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7/27/2007 - drwine2001 wrote:
Beautiful pure purple color. Initially, dark cherry aroma which has characterized so many of these '05 Beaujolais. This carried through to the palate with a core of sappy fruit, and the acidity was not as noticeable as in some of the other wines. What distinguished this one was its evolution in a Rhone rather than Burgundy direction, with secondary high tones full of spearmint and rosemary appearing over several hours open. Definitely different but another winner.
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7/5/2007 - d'Artagnan wrote: 89 Points
Nez en retrait. Bouche similaire au 2 Roches, pureté du fruit et longueur, tendu et dense, fraicheur exemplaire. 89 pts
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6/3/2007 - tcfishler wrote:
Less energetic than a Chignard consumed recently, this Fleurie nevertheless showed a lot of sweet-tart raspberry fruit, gamey nuance, and a lush palate feel. Deserved more time and/or air.
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4/19/2007 - gdbarton1@gmail.com wrote:
Dark purple/black. Muted strawberry and raspberry nose. Medium to full bodied concentrated dry red fruit.
Full concentrated wine. needs time to develop. The Godzilla of Beajolais.
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4/16/2007 - DaleW wrote: 90 Points
Full bodied for Beaujolais, nice ripe black cherry fruit. A little tight at first, opens up fully through the night. A very pretty and classy wine that could give many Burgundies a run for their (much more expensive) money.
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