2014 Maison P-U-R (Cyril Alonso and Florian Looze) Vin de France C Fini

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88 points

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  4/16/2020 - grapenomad wrote: 88 Points

  The bistro style Gamay has just added levels to its name. This is some serious VdF material here. Deep violet in the glass, pretty foggy from the lack of filtration. Strong barnyard funk on the first day of it being open, but my second day revisit reveals that this wine has so much more to offer - aromas of blackberry, dark cherry, overripe raspberry. A strong savory core detected on the palate. Slightly grippy tannins, high acid and a long finish. Can definitely go strong for a few more years.

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  1/13/2015 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  Somewhat translucent, youthful purple-red color. Quite savory and restrained nose with aromas of bright but very fresh and tart red berries, some farmyardy funk, a little bit of bilberry and a hint of sweet-fruited VA. The wine is dry, structured and very serious on the palate with somewhat concentrated yet still rather lean and very savory flavors of stony minerality, some brambly raspberry, a little bit of crowberry, a hint of astringent chokeberry and a touch of stemmy woodiness. The wine is pretty structured with its high acidity and firm sense of light-to-medium tannins. The finish is long, savory and somewhat lean with pronounced stony minerality and surprisingly weighty flavors of tart cranberries, some concentrated darker fruits and a hint of green stemmy character. The tannins lend a light but firm grip to the aftertaste.
  
  A very stern, serious and structured "Nouveau" Gamay that is very far removed from the typical Beaujolais Nouveau style: this is unhumorous, lacking quite a bit of that fun, youthful fruit and showing just stern, sinewy and tannic structure. As serious as a Nouveau wine can be. Impressive in its own, somewhat forbidding way, but seems like a great food wine. Not a big and complex wine, but not a fun and easy bistro wine either. A weird but rather tasty conundrum.

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