Popped and poured a glass. Typically red cherry, strawberry, cherry cola flavor for a CB. Unfortunately, my guests only wanted bourbon. So, on day 2 the top notes I described above had integrated with underlying flavors. It was hard to describe because there were no dominant flavors, but it was nice. Day 3 - I was expecting to pour it out but it was drinking even nicer than day 2. No idea what was happening here as my CB experiences have been that the wines don’t last long on e open, but this was a nice surprise.
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Opened and decanted an hour ahead of grilled chicken, rice, and mixed salad. Super funky on opening. Took an hour of air before you could get some sense of definition (high VA). Still wound up and primary with a hard tannic finish, but this has good stuffing and potential. Will be best 2024+. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 90.
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Bought at the home of JPT during our Women's World Cup visit. Not my favorite vintage of this. I still enjoyed it quite a bit, but the warm year didn't do it any favors, accentuating the sweet/bubble gum aspects of the semi-carbonic while muting the acid just a bit more than in previous years. A perfectly fine early drinker, and still one of the more successful '18 Beaujolais, but not at the level of '14 or even '17.
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Medium salmon/ruby color. Fruity, floral and earthy sour cherry and strawberry on the nose. Dry, bright acidity, low tannins, palate follows through. Medium full body. Good balance, Medium finish. Youthful bubblegummy Ribena, for good or for worse.
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Pretty jubey cherry over berry with a smidge of volatility. Slight pepper and stalks underpin. Smells very fresh and proves equally fresh and juicy on the palate. More berry than cherry, a little textured burr here as well. Pleasing.
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This was a fantastic bottle. A bit cloudy, juicy fruit, a certain nutty character from the middle to the finish. Very quaffable and a great value for the $27 we paid.
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A great Morgon and highly enjoyable summer red. Beautiful fragrant and enticing nose of bright and dark red fruit and spice. Palate has just enough acidity to balance and support attractive red cherries and flowers, and finish is to the point. Excellent.
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One of my favourite Beaujolais producers, hard not to like. Dangerously chuggable Gamay where it's all about the berry fruit and lively acids. Awesome with pizza.
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Absolutely delicious. Not sure I've ever had a better Cru Beaujolais. So much depth in both the nose and palate. Kept evolving in the glass. Classic and profound. Drink or hold.
A tale of two bottles. Fortunately this one showed much better, but couldn’t make up its mind whether to be a simple table wine or a really distinctive Morgon - kept flipping from this wild candied plum Note on the midpate to a very straightforward modestly mousy gamay. Coming up to room temp helped it out quite a bit
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Shows a bit of the vintage solar character, but doesn’t cross the line to being overly ripe, just lush, rich, tasty darker gamay fruit, good acidity and balance, fun to drink.
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Obvious Beajolais nose of tart raspberry and carbonic maceration (read: Jolly Rancher candy). Continues on the palate and joined by underripe blackberry and some spice. Acidic finish. Not a great or age-worthy Morgon, but an easy-drinking wine. A bit overpriced (Kermit Lynch) for what it is.
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A beautiful nose of fresh raspberries. mineral and plant matter. It is deep and fresh in the mouth, with exquisite balance and a silky texture. Flavours build and fan out on the long finish.
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It’s not deep or profound, but it’s a beautiful celebration of fresh red strawberries and cranberries fermented into a wine with great texture and perfume. This wine can turn a cloudy winter day into springtime sunshine.
Day 2 edit: some of the fruit has receded and there is a hint of bitter tannins noticeable through the finish.
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Deeper purple color. I gave this a 30 minutes decant. Notes to blackbberries, ripe red cherries, also some sweet spices and pepper, a touch of minerality and something like sugar coated violets. It‘s medium-full bodied, with good medium-high acidity and some lower-medium tannin. Good length. This combines a certain richness (of the vintage and the Cru) with nice freshness and tension. Not sure how this is gonna age as it‘s pretty accessible already. Good length. A very pretty Morgon.
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My perception is colored by ACYSO’s note below.. so the wine is a little mousey and has some acetic VA.. but it’s still quite drinkable, fresh, with tart raspberry and blackberry fruit. The high acidity clips it short.. but hey.. this is Beaujolais after all. And it’s quite yummy at that. Open within a year for me, not a long term player.
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PNP. While better than the Lapierre by a touch tonight, I was disappointed with both relative to previous vintages. Perhaps in a dumb state but right now i cannot recommend. B+
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Plum Market Fall Luxury Tasting (Chicago, IL): Nose is fine: shows some of the typical ditzy gamay red fruit. The palate has a distinct butyric acid thing, i.e. tastes like throw-up.
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3/15/2024 - Raizes Likes this wine: 88 Points
樱桃、草莓、栗子、甘草、八角、泥土,以及闻香时更加明显的玫瑰红茶气息。在丰富的单宁和酒精面前,酸度只能尽力跟上步伐。随着醒酒,出现更多黑莓、黑樱桃的成熟果味,香气更加浓郁奔放,口中表现也从轻盈变得均衡沉稳,六个小时依然保持着出色的状态。
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1/14/2024 - moudy wrote: 93 Points
Popped and poured a glass. Typically red cherry, strawberry, cherry cola flavor for a CB. Unfortunately, my guests only wanted bourbon. So, on day 2 the top notes I described above had integrated with underlying flavors. It was hard to describe because there were no dominant flavors, but it was nice. Day 3 - I was expecting to pour it out but it was drinking even nicer than day 2. No idea what was happening here as my CB experiences have been that the wines don’t last long on e open, but this was a nice surprise.
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9/10/2023 - oxidatif wrote:
Bangin'. Wish it had a bit more acid but still remarkably balanced. Savory, meaty, tons of great red/black fruit, really remarkable stuff
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8/10/2023 - thwacker Likes this wine: 93 Points
Unfiltered, so a bit cloudy, flamboyant nose and rich flavor, all elements in perfect balance and showing marvelously at age 5. A tour de force!
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12/29/2022 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 91 Points
Opened and decanted an hour ahead of grilled chicken, rice, and mixed salad. Super funky on opening. Took an hour of air before you could get some sense of definition (high VA). Still wound up and primary with a hard tannic finish, but this has good stuffing and potential. Will be best 2024+. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 90.
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9/30/2022 - Enfant sauvage wrote:
Bought at the home of JPT during our Women's World Cup visit. Not my favorite vintage of this. I still enjoyed it quite a bit, but the warm year didn't do it any favors, accentuating the sweet/bubble gum aspects of the semi-carbonic while muting the acid just a bit more than in previous years. A perfectly fine early drinker, and still one of the more successful '18 Beaujolais, but not at the level of '14 or even '17.
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9/29/2022 - Raizes Likes this wine: 88 Points
樱桃、李子、甘草、八角、培根,还有煮花生和烤栗子的香气。和香气的浓郁丰富相比,结构略显沉重,酸度比较普通。单宁随着醒酒逐渐展现体量和柔顺的质地,整体水平很高。
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7/14/2022 - cincybt wrote:
Heat got to this prior to purchase. 😟
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11/2/2021 - GuWin wrote: flawed
Corked!
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8/1/2021 - Costes76 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Medium salmon/ruby color. Fruity, floral and earthy sour cherry and strawberry on the nose. Dry, bright acidity, low tannins, palate follows through. Medium full body. Good balance, Medium finish. Youthful bubblegummy Ribena, for good or for worse.
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3/27/2021 - chatters wrote:
Pretty jubey cherry over berry with a smidge of volatility. Slight pepper and stalks underpin. Smells very fresh and proves equally fresh and juicy on the palate. More berry than cherry, a little textured burr here as well. Pleasing.
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9/4/2020 - Nojomoschwa Likes this wine: 92 Points
This was a fantastic bottle. A bit cloudy, juicy fruit, a certain nutty character from the middle to the finish. Very quaffable and a great value for the $27 we paid.
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9/2/2020 - mchern02 wrote: 91 Points
PnP
A great Morgon and highly enjoyable summer red. Beautiful fragrant and enticing nose of bright and dark red fruit and spice. Palate has just enough acidity to balance and support attractive red cherries and flowers, and finish is to the point. Excellent.
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8/31/2020 - grapenomad wrote: 91 Points
One of my favourite Beaujolais producers, hard not to like. Dangerously chuggable Gamay where it's all about the berry fruit and lively acids. Awesome with pizza.
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7/27/2020 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 92 Points
Chugged this fast, delicious. Crunchy berries, pomegranate, violets, black tea, sour cherry.
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7/10/2020 - tastark Likes this wine:
Absolutely delicious. Not sure I've ever had a better Cru Beaujolais. So much depth in both the nose and palate. Kept evolving in the glass. Classic and profound. Drink or hold.
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5/4/2020 - jviz wrote: 90 Points
A tale of two bottles. Fortunately this one showed much better, but couldn’t make up its mind whether to be a simple table wine or a really distinctive Morgon - kept flipping from this wild candied plum
Note on the midpate to a very straightforward modestly mousy gamay. Coming up to room temp helped it out quite a bit
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4/29/2020 - alanr wrote: 89 Points
Shows a bit of the vintage solar character, but doesn’t cross the line to being overly ripe, just lush, rich, tasty darker gamay fruit, good acidity and balance, fun to drink.
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3/29/2020 - MTC2 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Obvious Beajolais nose of tart raspberry and carbonic maceration (read: Jolly Rancher candy). Continues on the palate and joined by underripe blackberry and some spice. Acidic finish. Not a great or age-worthy Morgon, but an easy-drinking wine. A bit overpriced (Kermit Lynch) for what it is.
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3/16/2020 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A beautiful nose of fresh raspberries. mineral and plant matter. It is deep and fresh in the mouth, with exquisite balance and a silky texture. Flavours build and fan out on the long finish.
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2/18/2020 - poppacork Likes this wine: 93 Points
It’s not deep or profound, but it’s a beautiful celebration of fresh red strawberries and cranberries fermented into a wine with great texture and perfume. This wine can turn a cloudy winter day into springtime sunshine.
Day 2 edit: some of the fruit has receded and there is a hint of bitter tannins noticeable through the finish.
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12/29/2019 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deeper purple color. I gave this a 30 minutes decant. Notes to blackbberries, ripe red cherries, also some sweet spices and pepper, a touch of minerality and something like sugar coated violets. It‘s medium-full bodied, with good medium-high acidity and some lower-medium tannin. Good length. This combines a certain richness (of the vintage and the Cru) with nice freshness and tension. Not sure how this is gonna age as it‘s pretty accessible already. Good length. A very pretty Morgon.
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12/1/2019 - jviz wrote: 89 Points
My perception is colored by ACYSO’s note below.. so the wine is a little mousey and has some acetic VA.. but it’s still quite drinkable, fresh, with tart raspberry and blackberry fruit. The high acidity clips it short.. but hey.. this is Beaujolais after all. And it’s quite yummy at that. Open within a year for me, not a long term player.
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11/15/2019 - MC wrote:
PNP. While better than the Lapierre by a touch tonight, I was disappointed with both relative to previous vintages. Perhaps in a dumb state but right now i cannot recommend. B+
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10/24/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Plum Market Luxury Tasting (Bad Hunter - Chicago IL): Walk around tasting. Enjoyable, simple, gets by on its fleshy ripeness but I'd like more.
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10/24/2019 - acyso wrote: 70 Points
Plum Market Fall Luxury Tasting (Chicago, IL): Nose is fine: shows some of the typical ditzy gamay red fruit. The palate has a distinct butyric acid thing, i.e. tastes like throw-up.
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