2018 Domaine Labet Métis

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  5/4/2024 - Philip_Bundpropperne Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Rating: 4,3/5,0.

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  11/28/2023 - Vas19 wrote: 91 Points

  This wine is super inky - I dont know how to articulate that better but it's the impression I get. But it's not heavy or overripe, it's just the flavor profile is this inky purple thing. It's well balanced, clean and charming, very solid jura red.

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  2/28/2021 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points

  Deliciously quaffable. Slight reduction, good ruby color. Nice sweetness and acidity, really easy to drink and quickly.

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  11/15/2020 - Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 95 Points

  I do not concur.
  
  This wild brew, expressing only its wild nature
  deep lingonberry northern lights
  mouth puckering, salivating, gamey and
  irresponsible cranberries
  so... so silky that the grippy,
  minty, fresh sage ending
  hides behind the exuberant acidity
  and the lightness
  that is subversion
  of all things classical
  and expensive
  and fetish
  is very much expressing a now
  
  Wine for the modern palate
  essence of new;
  Jura

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  10/7/2020 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  A blend of Pinot Noir (45%), Gamay (23%), Enfariné (16%) and a co-fermented lot of vieux cépages (16%). Harvested on August 30th, 2018, bottled without sulfites on July 17th, 2019. 13% alcohol, pH 3,4.
  
  Youthful and moderately translucent crimson color. Open, fragrant and rather wild - yet not particularly natty - nose with attractive, fruit-driven aromas of brambly black raspberries, some peppery Pinosity, a little bit of dried herbs, light lifted notes of violets and Seville orange, a hint of wild strawberry and a bretty touch of leathery funk. The wine is quite light-bodied, crunchy and moderately wild on the palate with ripe flavors of crunchy cranberries, brambly raspberries, some peppery spice, a little bit of bretty leather, light lifted notes of sweet, zesty VA, a hint of astringent lingonberry and a touch of gravelly minerality. The bright acidity feels very high, whereas the gentle tannins are rather spars with quite mellow grip on the gums. The relatively long finish is dry, light and crunchy with moderately intense flavors of fresh raspberries and lingonberries, some earthiness, a little bit of cranberry, light sappy notes of raspberry leaf, a hint of bretty funk and a subtly unclean touch of nuttiness which might evolve into mousiness, if the wine were let to aerate for too long. However, at the moment the wine feels pretty clean and without any noticeable flaws.
  
  A fresh, charming and wonderfully crunchy Jura red with a modest wild edge to its aromatics. Made in a wonderfully light, delicate and refreshing style - definitely a wine for the acid-heads who don't mind a bit of sauvage character. Despite its light funky notes, the wine never comes across as too anonymously "natty" in style. Probably the wine can keep and even develop for some years, but this kind of fresh, fruit-forward glou-glou really doesn't scream for any cellaring and since the wine is drinking so well right now, I really don't see much idea in keeping it for much longer. Nice stuff.

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