Mêmes commentaires qu’il y a pile 1 mois, le vin m’a plu encore davantage aujourd’hui. S’est épanoui après 20 minutes dans le verre et a donné beaucoup de plaisir avec ses saveurs de framboises, de cerises et d’épices douces. 92+
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Bouteille et bouchon parfaits. Ouvert 90 minutes avant consommation. Belle couleur cerise noire. Au nez, on retrouve la cerise noire après 3 heures d’ouverture...avant les arômes étaient plutôt sur les fruits rouges et la violette. En bouche, constitution moyenne, finesse et jolie trame acide qui tient bien le vin, tanins fondus et finale de moyenne intensité. Sur la base de cette bouteille, à boire dans les 5-7 ans et tant pis pour l’apogée indiqué sur CT...
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Just another year, and this has gained plenty of charm. With food it really works well, the acidity firm enough to take on any meat, and enough subtle complexity to engage.
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From a half bottle. Still a very youthful 'bojo' pink-edged purple showing little or no age at the rim. Cherry and dark fruited, but slightly high-toned nose. Not as excitable as young bojo, with black olive in support and some background meatiness, plus a hint of tree bark, making it altogether more savoury than expected. The palate is again at the serious end of the scale, with the fruit comparitively subdued and some subtle tannic bitterness giving the faint impression of black pepper on the finish. Overall still quite light, despite that more savoury profile and the acidity is nicely refreshing. Should be good with food now, but it might be fun to see where 4-5 years further cellaring leaves this.
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Solid wine not to acidic or tannic but mild strawberry fruit tasted with decent finish with clove on hints. Nice & fair representation of gamay grape likely very good food pairing.
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This was tight initially, it's been open about 16 hours at this point, and tasted after a hard day at work: Floral notes right way, flowers, the fruit is on the darker side, tending towards blackberry but not that black. Laying in bed finishing the rest of the glass as I drifted off to sleep the aroma hit me, old ripe strawberries. Old though, like just starting to turn soft but not rotten. It smells nice. Acidity does show through on the nose, and the fruit and floral notes are light but very nice. Really nice feel on the palate, again the fruit is on the darker side here, great depth (as the previous taster described), very nice structure that helps the wine along through the finish. The fruit in the finish reminds me of berry skins. The fruit here is subtle. My palate tends towards larger wines and this wine is very far from that. I do like this though, it's combination of body and subtle fruit keeps me coming back for another sip. This is a nice wine that goes down to easy. My score would be higher if there was a bit more intensity, and the acidity is just barely out of balance on the finish, being a bit strong. (a good thing for aging potential?) 87+
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Bright, deep, slightly earthy bitter-mulberry, roses, beetroot and seaweed. Depth and purity (as well as track record) suggest it might open out and break up quite interestingly. 86 now. Could reach 91, in 3 years.
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6/19/2021 - Ericsson wrote: flawed
Malheureusement, bouchonnée et légère oxydation aussi.
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2/26/2020 - PhDP Likes this wine:
Cela a très bien vieilli et même réconcilié Yves avec les vins de ce producteur.
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8/19/2019 - Ericsson wrote: 92 Points
Mêmes commentaires qu’il y a pile 1 mois, le vin m’a plu encore davantage aujourd’hui.
S’est épanoui après 20 minutes dans le verre et a donné beaucoup de plaisir avec ses saveurs de framboises, de cerises et d’épices douces.
92+
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7/19/2019 - Ericsson wrote: 91 Points
Bouteille et bouchon parfaits. Ouvert 90 minutes avant consommation.
Belle couleur cerise noire. Au nez, on retrouve la cerise noire après 3 heures d’ouverture...avant les arômes étaient plutôt sur les fruits rouges et la violette. En bouche, constitution moyenne, finesse et jolie trame acide qui tient bien le vin, tanins fondus et finale de moyenne intensité.
Sur la base de cette bouteille, à boire dans les 5-7 ans et tant pis pour l’apogée indiqué sur CT...
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4/27/2014 - JJKinch wrote: 91 Points
Bright red fruit (strawberry, cherry), slight spice, bright acidity.
Nice finish.
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4/7/2014 - Ian S wrote:
Just another year, and this has gained plenty of charm. With food it really works well, the acidity firm enough to take on any meat, and enough subtle complexity to engage.
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3/18/2013 - zscheiner Likes this wine: 91 Points
Blind Tasting 2009 Cru Beaujolais (Rich & Peggy's House, Los Altos, CA): Dark red fruited nose, floral and rocky. Dark, fleshy red fruited palate. Palate-staining fruit skin tannin, dried flowers and rocky detail. Lovely and seems like to improve.
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2/17/2013 - Ian S wrote:
From a half bottle.
Still a very youthful 'bojo' pink-edged purple showing little or no age at the rim.
Cherry and dark fruited, but slightly high-toned nose. Not as excitable as young bojo, with black olive in support and some background meatiness, plus a hint of tree bark, making it altogether more savoury than expected.
The palate is again at the serious end of the scale, with the fruit comparitively subdued and some subtle tannic bitterness giving the faint impression of black pepper on the finish. Overall still quite light, despite that more savoury profile and the acidity is nicely refreshing.
Should be good with food now, but it might be fun to see where 4-5 years further cellaring leaves this.
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4/1/2010 - Vinomark wrote: 86 Points
Solid wine not to acidic or tannic but mild strawberry fruit tasted with decent finish with clove on
hints. Nice & fair representation of gamay grape likely very good food pairing.
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2/24/2010 - gripNsip wrote: 87 Points
This was tight initially, it's been open about 16 hours at this point, and tasted after a hard day at work: Floral notes right way, flowers, the fruit is on the darker side, tending towards blackberry but not that black. Laying in bed finishing the rest of the glass as I drifted off to sleep the aroma hit me, old ripe strawberries. Old though, like just starting to turn soft but not rotten. It smells nice. Acidity does show through on the nose, and the fruit and floral notes are light but very nice. Really nice feel on the palate, again the fruit is on the darker side here, great depth (as the previous taster described), very nice structure that helps the wine along through the finish. The fruit in the finish reminds me of berry skins. The fruit here is subtle. My palate tends towards larger wines and this wine is very far from that. I do like this though, it's combination of body and subtle fruit keeps me coming back for another sip. This is a nice wine that goes down to easy. My score would be higher if there was a bit more intensity, and the acidity is just barely out of balance on the finish, being a bit strong. (a good thing for aging potential?) 87+
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1/24/2010 - campingfleurie wrote: 86 Points
Bright, deep, slightly earthy bitter-mulberry, roses, beetroot and seaweed. Depth and purity (as well as track record) suggest it might open out and break up quite interestingly. 86 now. Could reach 91, in 3 years.
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10/30/2008 - wino_tim wrote: 90 Points
Rich and extracted for a Gamay, but quite pure with bright cherry fruit that persists all the way through to the finish.
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