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| Drinking window: Drink between 2008 and 2009 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 78.5 pts. and median of 80 pts. in 52 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jerbearjb on 12/29/2015 flawed bottle: CORKED (2615 views) | | | Tasted by bterry3 on 8/28/2011 & rated 50 points: Sat too long to be drinkable (got "lost"... ignored... on rack for too long). It was decent in 2008 when it was Nouveau. (4851 views) | | | Tasted by bterry3 on 7/23/2011 & rated 65 points: Ok, I found this on a top rack... Forgot altogether that we had it. Bought 2 bottles in January 2009 at Costco for $4 each. Said what the heck, drink it or dump it. Opened it and decanted for a while. Flavor came up to a very mild drinkable red. Very dry to palate. Similar to a low end Zin. Drinkable but no distinguishing flavors. A decent starter for a laid back Saturday nite with no great expectations. (4779 views) | | | Tasted by RCL on 11/25/2009: Waited too long. (5636 views) | | | Tasted by mrwettstein on 11/19/2009 & rated 76 points: Ok... Should have been drank last holiday season (5618 views) | | | Tasted by The Wierzbickis on 7/11/2009 & rated 79 points: This wine tasted perfect with the Mahi-Mahi and ratatouille this evening. (4336 views) | | | Tasted by scottmlew on 4/27/2009 & rated 83 points: This wine seems to have a Rosé quality to it..Tart cherries and grape bubble gum-overall not bad-but nostalgic at best. (3164 views) | | | Tasted by armchairsommelier on 3/16/2009 & rated 79 points: Very light and "good" mostly for the sake of tradition. The nose was cotton candy - very sugary. Generic fruit flavors with a nod to banana. Salud! (3397 views) | | | Tasted by ctzmisst on 2/28/2009 & rated 74 points: better than its twin. and on par for what it is. (3514 views) | | | Tasted by ctzmisst on 2/21/2009 & rated 69 points: too old? bad bottle? thin red vinegar, cldn't finish (3527 views) | | | Tasted by mdefreitas on 1/30/2009 & rated 85 points: Simple, grapey, and fruity. Low in structure, as to be expected, and very gulpable. Went very well as a red wine for white wine cuisine (baked fish). A fruit-cocktail of a wine (cherry-raspberry-banana), but successful for the genre. (3620 views) | | | Tasted by mikec42 on 1/28/2009 & rated 80 points: Good color, very light and fruity, reminds me of grape cool aid...much better wines out there for $8.00. (3553 views) | | | Tasted by rrtims on 1/23/2009 & rated 86 points: Nice, fruity flavor and aroma. (3389 views) | | | Tasted by Fonsecavo on 1/13/2009 & rated 88 points: This is a great year for this wine. I paid $8.99 pre bottle at Costco. It is very fresh, excellent nose, hits the spot. (3547 views) | | | Tasted by gbm on 1/11/2009: I agree with RoundersRob and sunalsorises below. No point in scoring this wine. It is what it is - just the far side of grape juice. COLOR: Nice, very clear purple. NOSE: Big fruit, clearly grape. Hints of flowers and bananas. TASTE: Light with cherries and grapes, but occasional overwhelming waves of Kool-Aid. Towards the end of the first glass (as it warmed to room temp) it developed a metallic finish. OVERALL: It might have remained drinkable if I chilled it, but I didn't and it didn't and it went the way of the dishwater. (3416 views) | | | Tasted by Capt M on 1/11/2009 & rated 85 points: Floral nose with hints of red cherry. Flavors of your red cherries and hints of cranberry with certain bitterness at the end. This wine makes an impression when it enters the palate, and dissipates from there on to the finish. (3394 views) | | | Tasted by sfe on 1/10/2009: jenny enjoys (3481 views) | | | Tasted by sunalsorises on 1/3/2009 & rated 80 points: It is what it is. (3490 views) | | | Tasted by Baylorwine on 1/2/2009 & rated 88 points: 88 points for what it was. It is light, fruity, and fresh tasting...like a BN should be. Drink it, but don't think about it. (3463 views) | | | Tasted by joshwoodward on 1/1/2009 & rated 85 points: Good! Light candied fruits, fruit punch. $14 (3320 views) | | | Tasted by tommers207@gmail.com on 12/24/2008 & rated 80 points: Had with friends and family for Christmas Eve. Nice red color. Nose definatly had some bananas there. Somewhat light mouthfeel. Cherry meets banana for taste. Not even that strong up front. Mid pallate fades with no backend. This was my first Beaujolais Nouveau so I'm not really sure what to compare it to. Was better than the Charles Shaw Valdigue I had last year. The other six of the group had never had a BN either and here's how they rated it - 4 liked it, one didn't say anything, and mom said "YUCK!". I'm sort of the "it's OK" thinking. (3570 views) | | | Tasted by mpowell on 12/22/2008 & rated 74 points: Meh. I definitely get the bananas that others are tasting, especially on the second night of consumption. Slightly bitter, not nearly as enjoyable as last year's offering. Average at best. (3717 views) | | | Tasted by Wink on 12/17/2008 & rated 87 points: Popped and poured. Dark cherry color. Attractive nose of red fruit, roses, banana, and vanilla bean. Light body with cheerful raspberry and strawberry fruit. Pleasant acidity. Simple, but pretty drinkable for a Beaujolais Nouveau. I'm not part of the Cellar Tracker hatefest regarding this wine. I am with WS on this one. A decent Nouveau. (3702 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 12/16/2008 & rated 80 points: Ruby red color. Banana cotton candy nose. Light body, red grape and green apple flavor. (3703 views) | | | Tasted by Jazzman on 12/16/2008 & rated 72 points: This wasn't great when initially opened. Pretty much tasted like crap. A couple days later after being vacu-vined, it actually seemed to have improved. Nonetheless, I'm in no hurry to open the second bottle I bought. (3694 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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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 Beaujolais Nouveau Beaujolais Nouveau AOC (Official Site) |
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