2011 Château Thivin Côte de Brouilly

Community Tasting Notes (92) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  1/20/2024 - JonathanP wrote: 90 Points

  Best bottle of this Cote de Brouilly to date. Everything has come together very nicely and all the elements are integrated and in perfect balance. Lots of juicy red fruit with good minerality and perhaps a little less of the briar notes of previous bottles. Smack bang in the middle of its drinking window.

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  5/13/2023 - SouthernStateofMind wrote:

  Last of six (6). Similar to prior experience Red cherry, raspberry, with earthy/floral notes. Lively on the palate; acidity present provides required lift to counter richly laden fruit. Delivers lovely even finish. Fully integrated but still plenty of life here. Drink soon.

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  10/28/2022 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Lovely red fruited. Good weight. Surprisingly so, suggesting old vines and great vineyard care. This bottle shows no signs of being beyond its peak. This bottle would go many more years, given the chance. On the firmer side of Beaujolais, with none of the florals that Fleurie gives us. I expect it will open up with time in the glass.

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  3/19/2022 - JonathanP wrote: 89 Points

  Relatively dark in the glass. Black and red fruit on the nose and plate (think dark cherry and cranberry) which also shows a considerable savoury presence of briary stems, earth and a cool herbaceous note. A bucketload of racy acidity on the palate. Medium weight and length.

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  1/24/2022 - fitzi wrote:

  This wine is in a great place right now, with a little exposure to air - say, 20 minutes in the glass or 30 in a decanter. The preliminary curtain of sandy tannins parts, granting ingress to succulent, juicy fruit flavors which lean cherry, and engaging attention by the contrast in textures. Fine acidity and good balance, everything very nicely proportioned, no flab. Only seven months since my last bottle, but this one is much better than I recall from that sample; sipping after the wine had been in the glass for a bit, I really had to do a double take, so surprised was I by the quality and impact of the inner fruit. My favorite Beaujolais, I'd say, or maybe tied with Foillard Morgon du Py, which offers great flavors and textures in a distinctly different presentation of Gamay.

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