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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 32 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by thesternowl on 8/8/2023 & rated 90 points: Beaucoup de Beaujolais (Monarch Restaurant, Hotel Deco, Omaha, Nebraska): One of the “Bourguignon” producers in the line-up, this examples from Jules Desjourneys was a clear outlier in the group. This was a 2010 and came across younger than anything else we enjoyed over the course of the evening. Popped and poured; no formal notes. The 2010 Fleurie “Chapelle des Bois” is locked up in oak but the fruit is there; dark brambles forever with some licorice as well. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a very long time for the oak to give up its grip on this one. Luckily, I think the quality of the fruit will last long enough to make it more enjoyable…eventually. Best after 2025 through 2040; which seems somewhat ridiculous to write. (905 views) | | | Tasted by levicn on 11/25/2022 & rated 92 points: 开瓶即饮，中宝石红色，闻香有果梗带来的植物根茎气息和辛辣感，泥土混合着莓果的香气，入口酸度很高，线性，单宁紧涩，有一点儿糊嘴，细砂纸颗粒，单宁在嘴里化得快，强度不大，酒液很咸，咸矿石的感觉，樱桃和蔓越莓一类红果香气，还有车厘子一类偏深色的水果，伴随着淡淡泥土气息，木质香气和香草味一直延伸到余味，细腻悠长，有着一种精妙感。这时候的酒的表现是含蓄的，能感觉出有复杂度，有深度，集中度也不错，质朴的风格在精致的余味中得到升华。醒酒器一个小时，酒的状态已经变得开放，总体感觉更加甜美一些，木质香气，红果味，带着些许桂皮香料，还有泥土和石灰的气息，入口单宁柔和了一些，带梗的紧涩感依然明显，细沙的颗粒，中等略偏轻的酒体，矿物感清晰，果味浓缩，伴随着果梗的植物气息，后段一些桂皮香料和辛辣感，余味是红果味和质感高级的木质香气。处在适饮期的一支酒，除了佳美的单宁质感略粗一点以外，无论是酒的细腻程度还是精妙感都如同一支传统的勃艮第，十多年的陈年褪去了新年份佳美的后段的那种燥热感，让它变得优雅而又平和，恰如其分地展现出 Fleurie 最温柔的一面。厚积薄发，娓娓道来，非常经典的风格 (1244 views) | | | Tasted by wineappellation on 6/28/2022 & rated 93 points: Appearance is still young. Perfumed violet, dried hawthorn, juicy black cherry, bright sour cherry, a bit of tar and smokiness, wet stone and hint of musk. On the palate it is elegant and silky giving arrays of flavours. Lively wild black and red berries, racy freshness, transparent minerals with some savoury earth and dark spices. Lovely weightlessness. 13.0% abv. (1332 views) | | | Tasted by Bruce 1er on 4/11/2022 & rated 91 points: Bright red, good fruit, especially tart cherries and cassis. Balance and flavor improved four hours after decanting. Quite nice. (1319 views) | | | Tasted by Thomas123 on 1/22/2022 & rated 85 points: Corked (1432 views) | | | Tasted by hbay on 3/13/2021 & rated 89 points: Ovnkylling m. ovnkartofler (1887 views) | | | Tasted by LW31 on 8/30/2020: Another somewhat disappointing bottle from Desjourneys. A bit more complexity than previous ones, but a still a bit stolid and inert to my taste. Drank alongside a Daniel Bouland which had greater depth and much more energy. (1706 views) | | | Tasted by gordoyflaca on 7/17/2020 & rated 91 points: Drinking well, and well made, with good flavors, but lacking a bit of sense of place, and missing that intense element of ‘joie de vivre’ that I get from great cru bojo. (1596 views) | | | Tasted by HowardNZ on 3/27/2020 & rated 94 points: Desjourneys tasting at Truffle (Wellington, NZ): The best Beaujolais yet and one of the best in the line up to drink now, in my view. An intriguing, layered bouquet of spicy cherries, dark spices, earth, high cacao chocolate and espresso. A mouth of blackberries and other dark fruit, liquorice, earth, burnt toast and mocha. An attractive saline mineral element. Lovely oak handling. Harmonious, well balanced and integrated. Drinking very well now but – given the stuffing here – I would expect this would expect this Fleurie to give pleasure over the next 5-6+ years. (2482 views) | | | Tasted by ronnieroots on 8/15/2019 & rated 88 points: Really rather serious and tannic, but lacking the fun fruit one would expect from a top Fleurie. Seems to risk drying out before the tannins will soften sufficiently. Slightly disappointing. (2068 views) | | | Tasted by karl.1480 on 6/1/2019 & rated 88 points: As often with the wines of Desjourneys they are atypically dense and dark for it's origin. Right out of the bottle the nose shows lots of deep black fruit, violets, garrigue herbs, raw meat, tobacco, moist soil and some coffee notes from the oak.
Medium(+) bodied with fresh acidity. The tannins almost completely resolved. Again pretty dense fruitcore (for a Beaujolais) with brown spice and garrigue herbs.
Very good but not great and I really wanted to like this. It kind of lacked lift and nerve in a way. Starting to get old or just a dumb phase? (1862 views) | | | Tasted by hbay on 3/16/2019 & rated 90 points: Kalvekotelet m. ovnkartofler (1672 views) | | | Tasted by gresch on 10/17/2018 & rated 90 points: Re-rating the same bottle as the last note, but much better this time. The O2 composition in the coravined bottle might have let this oxidize just a little bit more. This felt like it had put on considerable more weight and complexity this time. I think that there are better values to be found from Beaujolais though. (1883 views) | | | Tasted by gresch on 1/11/2018 & rated 86 points: This was perfectly fine, but a bit anonymous. This was on the lighter side of medium and seemed varietally true. I wonder what would happen if it got a lot more time.
I may not be that into Fleurie's. I've been a lot more impressed w/ gamays from other appellations. (2580 views) | | | Tasted by winelegends.net on 10/29/2017 & rated 92 points: Dunkles Rot
Extrem fruchtig,anfangs eher rotfruchtig mit mehr Zeit dann viel Brombeerfrucht und schwarzkirschig,würzig.
Dicht,rund,balanciert.mittlerer Körper ,samtig.
Mittellanger schwarzfruchtiger Abgang.
Vom ersten bis letzen Schluck über 2 Tage absolut zugänglich und fruchtig. (3259 views) | | | Tasted by marshalc on 8/11/2017 & rated 88 points: Fine but expected much more for the price. (2809 views) | | | Tasted by Rich S on 12/27/2016: Not rating as I cannot tell if the wine was slightly off. Seemed very ripe and showed some VA on the nose. Black cherry and cassis flavors on the palate. Short finish. Disappointing as I was really looking forward to this wine. (3392 views) | | | Tasted by Skrutt (Formerly RotHead) on 9/17/2016 & rated 92 points: Showed great intensity from the beginning, starting off with quite fudgy vanilla, blueberries in milk, paprika, greenish anise and whiteheart cherry. As time passed it got crisper, converging towards grape sugar but with a depth that lesser wines lack.
Fine tannins coat the palate and there is a really good stand-up acidity.
Crispness earned it an extra pt. (3442 views) | | | Tasted by phil the agony on 7/1/2016 & rated 90 points: Un nez plus discret sur les mûres et les cerises noires.Un peu bonbon et réglisse rouge.
Plus rond que le 2009 et un léger boisé.Plaisant mais cris que c'est cher.
16/20 (?) je sais pas ! (67$) (3163 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 5/15/2016 & rated 90 points: Un nez de fruit noir (mûres). Jolie texture, bouche lissée par un élevage luxuriant, qui prend beaucoup de place. Le fruit est frais mais un peu en retrait, je me demande s'il n'aurait pas valu mieux le boire en jeunesse, j'ai l'impression qu'il a perdu de l'éclat. Il me lasse à la longue. Tout de même bon, mais pas au niveau pour justifier son prix. Relative déception. 89-90 pts (3175 views) | | | Tasted by winelegends.net on 12/12/2015 & rated 93 points: Kein Unterschied zur Tastingnotiz vom 3.09.2014 .
Finde den Wein immer noch sehr fruchtig mit genügend Tiefe und eigenständigem Charakter.
Trinkt sich von selber. (3234 views) | | | Tasted by Philippe_C on 2/4/2015 & rated 94 points: starts with a light nose of red cherries... super silky concentration of red cherries, super silky tannins, WOW wine with a 20 seconds finish... my best Beaujolais ever!! (3403 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 3/12/2014 & rated 91 points: Medium dark ruby color; appealing, ripe cherry, ripe red berry nose; tasty, ripe cherry, ripe red berry, mineral palate; medium-plus finish (827 views) | | | Tasted by winelegends.net on 3/9/2014 & rated 93 points: 93+
Dunkles kräftiges Himbeerrot.
Am Anfang noch ein bisschen alkoholisch,aber nachher ein Volltreffer für mich,gefällt mir ausserordentlich gut.
Sehr rotfruchtig,Sauerkirschen,süsse Mandeln,bisschen Floral,leicht alkoholisch,seidig,rein,mineralisch.
Energie,gute Tiefe,integrierte Säure,würzig,gefächert,leicht menthol.
Guter mittlerer ganz leicht prägender Abgang.
2.Tag eine Bestätigung,Beerenmix,floral,gute Tiefe,seidig,leicht prägend.
Wirklich eine gute Leistung,D.Schildknecht mit 95 P. scheint mir nicht so verkehrt. (3501 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (3/12/2014)
(Jules Desjourneys Fleurie Chapelle des Bois) Medium dark ruby color; appealing, ripe cherry, ripe red berry nose; tasty, ripe cherry, ripe red berry, mineral palate; medium-plus finish 91 points |
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Beaujolais Vins du Beaujolais (L’Union des Vignerons du Beaujolais)
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Wine Scholar Guild Vintage Chart & Ratings
# 2009 Vintage Notes:
"There will be a lot of absolutely delicious Beaujolais to try in 2009, as it is indeed a very good, atypically ripe and opulent vintage for Beaujolais. As others here have mentioned, the Louis-Dressner and Kermit Lynch portfolios cover many of the very best estates (with an honorable mention for importer Weygandt-Metzler), and just choosing from their strip labels is a very good jumping off point. As a quick primer, the three best Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages producers that I regularly cross paths with are the aformentioned Jean-Paul Brun and his Domaine Terres Dorées, Pierre Chermette of Domaine du Vissoux and Domaine Dupeuble from the Kermit Lynch's portfolio. I also find the Beaujolais-Villages from Joseph Drouhin consistently excellent and very classic in style and like all of this firm's Beaujolais, a completely underrated source for very top drawer Crus and B-Villages.
Amongst the Cru Beaujolais, it is important to keep in mind(again as folks have mentioned already) that certain villages tend to produce much more structured wines, and this will be very evident in a powerful vintage like 2009. In general terms, the wines from Moulin-a-Vent, Morgon and Cote de Brouilly are going to demand a bit of bottle age to really start to drink well in 2009, and these may not be the best growers to focus on when tasting through the vintage to draw your own conclusions. But in these appellations, if you keep in mind that what you are tasting is likely going to need five years of bottle age to really blossom from these crus, you cannot go wrong with Kermit Lynch's "Gang of Five" producers- Thevenet, Lapierre, Foillard, Breton are four of the five- as well as Georges Descombes and Louis et Claude Desvignes from Louis-Dressner. I also like very much the Morgons made by Louis Jadot and Joseph Drouhin for the big houses, and Jean-Paul Brun also makes a very good example of Morgon.
In Moulin-a-Vent, Louis Jadot's Chateau des Jacques makes a very good range- though always structured when young- and Bernard Diochon is excellent year in and year out. Pierre Chermette also makes superb Moulin-a-Vent and the Drouhin version is consistently exceptional. In Cote de Brouilly, the two most exciting producers are Nicole Chanrion and Chateau Thivin (both represented by Kermit Lynch). The Chanrion is usually very accessible out of the blocks for this very stony terroir (it is an extinct volcano), while the Chateau Thivin bottlings demand time and are usually tight and structured when young. Better to try the delicious straight Brouilly from Chateau Thivin if you want to drink one of their wines out of the blocks, as that never demands patience and is lovely.
In the less structured Cru villages, wines I particularly like are the aformentioned Clos de la Roilette in Fleurie (they are the Chateau Yquem of the village- though their vines are right on the Moulin-a-Vent border and the wine used to be sold as Moulin-a-Vent before the AOC went into effect, so they are a bit more structured than most Fleuries), Cedric Chignard, Jean-Paul Brun and Pierre Chermette are all very, very good sources. Domaine Diochon in Moulin-a-Vent also makes a good Fleurie, as does Joseph Drouhin. In general these will be more floral, open and sappy bottles of Beaujolais out of the blocks and they will be delicious from the get-go.
In St. Amour, Domaine des Billards makes absolutely brilliant wines and is one of my favorite producers in all of Beaujolais. In Julienas, Michel Tete is the star producer, but I also like the Drouhin bottling from here very well indeed. There are many more outstanding bottlings to be found scattered thorughout the crus and I am sure that I am forgetting several worthy estates, but this at least will give you a good "to do" list to get started with the vintage. The only '09s I have tasted thus far are the Joseph Drouhin wines, which I tasted through in Beaune in March, and they are deep, sappy and beautifully soil-driven. If all the other top estates have made wines in this style, then this is indeed going to be a very special vintage for the region. But with the wines from Morgon and Moulin-a-Vent, you may do better trying a few bottles from either the 2006 or 2007 vintage if you can find them well-stored, as these are less structured vintages and both are beginning to really drink well from these villages." - John Gilman
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"The 2014 vintage in Beaujolais is absolutely terrific and probably, along with 2011, the best vintage in the region since 2005. The region has had a bit of a rollercoaster ride in the last few years, with an absolutely phenomenal vintage in 2011 (particularly for those of us who like to age our Beaujolais for several years prior to serving), one of the most difficult growing seasons in recent memory in 2012, a good, solid classic vintage in 2013, and now, again, another truly outstanding vintage in 2014." - John Gilman
"2014 [...] vintage is a return to the mineral-cracked freshness and explosive low-alcohol red fruit the cru level wines of this region are famous for but have lacked since 2010/2011 (without the potentially hard/green/diffuse/underripe character found in many 2012/2013's)." - Jon Rimmerman
"the 2014s exhibit lively berry and floral character punctuated by zesty minerality. The wines are concentrated yet not heavy, and show good structure without coming off as outsized. Many producers I visited in June described the wines as a hybrid of the 2010s and 2011s, combining the structure of the earlier vintage and the fruit intensity of the latter. As such, the 2014s, as a group, are hugely appealing right now but I have no doubt that they will reward another three to five years of aging. Many of the brawniest 2014s have the material to see them through a decade or more of life but by that point they’ll have little resemblance to most peoples’ notion of Beaujolais, so I’d advise drinking almost all of the ‘14s before they hit their tenth birthday." - Josh Raynolds
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Vinification will not be straightforward and the 2015 vintage will be a reflection of the quality of the winemaker." - Jean Loron
"the wines have the potential to age and evolve beautifully" - Michael Apstein
# 2016 Vintage Notes:
"a harvest of soft, amply fruity wines, though without the depth and density of the outstanding 2015 harvest." - Wine Scholar Guild
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Trade body InterBeaujolais has said the 2018 harvest in the region will “go down in history as a legendary vintage” alongside the likes of 2017, 2015 and 2009." - Rupert Millar
#2018 Vintage Notes:
"The heatwave of July and August led growers to anticipate rich, high-alcohol wines akin to the excellent, but atypical, 2015s. However, probably due to the reserves of groundwater accumulated prior to June 20th, the 2018s are, as a rule, fresher, with slightly higher acidity and considerably lower alcohol than their counterparts from 2015. There is, nonetheless, an appealing fleshiness or rondeur to many 2018s, which suggests they won’t keep for as long as the more mineral 2017s – which are really hitting their stride now – but makes them highly seductive from the word go.
Another interesting theme, which we encountered in wines from various domaines across different crus, is a Cabernet Franc-like leafy character towards the back of the palate, which contributes an extra degree of freshness and buvabilité." Will Heslop Fleurie The single vineyards on weinlagen-info |
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