A few things to note from the top. This shows exceptionally elegant and fine given the vintage where most reds are dense and concentrated. This provides substantial drinking pleasure given the humble Bourgogne Rouge appellation.
Beautiful bright crimson ruby color. The wine offers aroma that match the taste. Everything is in its place and I have no marks against the wine. Lovely red Pinot fruits of dark cherry, ripe pomegranate, red raspberry, and red apple skin. There is more stony and chalky earth tones matched ever so well against great quality French wood. On the palate the wine is elegant with detailed structure, weight but balanced with great underlying minerality and acidity. Overall elegant, detailed, harmonious weight and structure, excellent balance, and a substantial bargain given the quality. While this is drinking well now, I suspect it has a longer way to go to further develop. Hats off to Jean Claude and family on a marvelous effort in 20’.
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This is such a beauty! Pretty aromas of red fruits, spice, florals and warm earth. The palate is balanced by mouth watering acidity with just enough tannin to etch the framework from which this will be allowed to age. This is very elegant and high toned. The palate delivers lift and energy. Overall it is highly digestible. While it has the ability to further develop in the short term, it is drinking very well at the moment. Drink or hold. Best consumed by 2030.
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A joyous and playful wine best served alongside foods of all kind. This is a great wine to pair with spiced induced cuisines as well as foods bearing heat from chili peppers.
The nose reveals more earthy tones of wet soil, forest floor and damp humus with woodsy spice of bark and decomposing leaves. Whether this was opened on a root day or not is TBD. The fruit is secondary to the earthy and savory aromas lending wild blackberries, blackberry leaves and mirabelle plum.
The palate is what I enjoy of Yann’s wines. The fine balance of tannin, bright bouncy acidity and the gentle caressing of fruit infusion makes for an energetic wine that is very amusing and highly digestible.
This has benefited from air as the fruit is beginning to be coaxed out of its savory shell. Enjoyable but hard to determine if this will benefit from cellaring or meant to be enjoyed closer to releasing. Nonetheless this is still a fun wine to share that keeps on the edge of purity without being ferrous.
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2020 Jean-Claude Ramonet Bourgogne
3/25/2024 - foodnwine79 Likes this wine: 92 Points
A few things to note from the top. This shows exceptionally elegant and fine given the vintage where most reds are dense and concentrated. This provides substantial drinking pleasure given the humble Bourgogne Rouge appellation.
Beautiful bright crimson ruby color.
The wine offers aroma that match the taste. Everything is in its place and I have no marks against the wine.
Lovely red Pinot fruits of dark cherry, ripe pomegranate, red raspberry, and red apple skin. There is more stony and chalky earth tones matched ever so well against great quality French wood.
On the palate the wine is elegant with detailed structure, weight but balanced with great underlying minerality and acidity.
Overall elegant, detailed, harmonious weight and structure, excellent balance, and a substantial bargain given the quality. While this is drinking well now, I suspect it has a longer way to go to further develop. Hats off to Jean Claude and family on a marvelous effort in 20’.
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2022 Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir Dundee Hills
1/21/2024 - foodnwine79 Likes this wine: 91 Points
This is such a beauty!
Pretty aromas of red fruits, spice, florals and warm earth. The palate is balanced by mouth watering acidity with just enough tannin to etch the framework from which this will be allowed to age. This is very elegant and high toned. The palate delivers lift and energy. Overall it is highly digestible. While it has the ability to further develop in the short term, it is drinking very well at the moment. Drink or hold. Best consumed by 2030.
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2020 Yann Bertrand Beaujolais Saint Amour Les Bambins
1/15/2024 - foodnwine79 Likes this wine: 89 Points
A joyous and playful wine best served alongside foods of all kind. This is a great wine to pair with spiced induced cuisines as well as foods bearing heat from chili peppers.
The nose reveals more earthy tones of wet soil, forest floor and damp humus with woodsy spice of bark and decomposing leaves. Whether this was opened on a root day or not is TBD. The fruit is secondary to the earthy and savory aromas lending wild blackberries, blackberry leaves and mirabelle plum.
The palate is what I enjoy of Yann’s wines. The fine balance of tannin, bright bouncy acidity and the gentle caressing of fruit infusion makes for an energetic wine that is very amusing and highly digestible.
This has benefited from air as the fruit is beginning to be coaxed out of its savory shell.
Enjoyable but hard to determine if this will benefit from cellaring or meant to be enjoyed closer to releasing. Nonetheless this is still a fun wine to share that keeps on the edge of purity without being ferrous.
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