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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.9 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 28 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Benoit Hardy on 4/27/2024 & rated 89 points: Uninviting nose at first on the burnt tire. It will evolve positively towards cooked fruit.
Mouth with a frank attack with aromas of espresso and coconut. Some tertiary notes. It’s quite a departure from the brightly fruity Beaujolais I’ve been drinking. Sensation of an “ambitious” wine but which fails to convince me with its cooked fruit side. Good cocoa finish.
Question of style... But I think this wine must have been better a few years ago. (268 views) | | | Tasted by LW31 on 7/25/2023: 2 btls at dinner. Rather stolid dark fruited Fleurie. Lacking charm but drinkable. I don’t really get the high scores and hype for this producer compared to peers in Beaujolais who find much more energy and complexity. (547 views) | | | Tasted by hbay on 6/4/2022 & rated 91 points: Kylling i skilt sovs m. kartofler, agurksalat og rabarberkompot
…vin serveret kold (1028 views) | | | Tasted by Alykhan V on 3/8/2022 & rated 93 points: This was glorious for a cru Beaujolais
Dark fruits especially raspberry, coffee and espresso, cocoa grounds, medium tannins
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This is drinking beautifully now, will be even better in 3 years, and will probably peak in 5-6
Can withstand a decant (1198 views) | | | Tasted by Alykhan V on 10/24/2021 & rated 93 points: Cocoa, coffee grounds, graphite, fruits very much on the dark fruit end of the spectrum (black plums, black cherry), oak spices, a box of cigars. Some tomato leaf or red pepper notes
At its peak now. Best to drink now or over the next 4-5 years
Medium body
Medium tannins that still have some grip
Still quite delicate and dare I say feminine
Outstanding length (1445 views) | | | Tasted by HowardNZ on 3/27/2020 & rated 91 points: Desjourneys tasting at Truffle (Wellington, NZ): Much better. Nuances of dark plums, dark spices, tilled soil, iodine and wet metals on the nose. On palate, relatively detailed with notes of black plums, dark cherries, minerals, black pepper, new leather, earth and a touch of Marmite. Good concentration, structure and acidity. Some spicy oak but pretty well balanced by the fruit. Decent length. Drinking younger than the Moulin-à-Vent. Consume over the next five years. (2660 views) | | | Tasted by Thomas123 on 10/4/2019 & rated 87 points: Hmmmm, really difficult this one. Nice and harmonic. Alive and kickin’ after 9 years. But it lacks complexity and is just a little bit ...boring. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to a reasonable burgundy. (1946 views) | | | Tasted by Thefatbastard on 9/13/2018: Bu à l'aveugle avec 3 autres Desjourneys.
2008 interdit: très foncé, brouillé, on y perçoit la rafle, acidité très élevée.
2008 Moulin à vent: plus soyeux et fin, notes de fumé et de café. Encore du fruits.
2010 Fleurie Les Moriers: bombe d'extraction Du fruits, long.
2010 moulin à vent les chassignols: le meilleur, épicé. Griottes, Long avec des notes fumés, bel équilibre.
Dans l'ensemble se sont des vins fabriquées à l'excès. C'est bien fait, certes, mais on ne peut y reconnaître le gamay. C'est hors normes. Mais la preuve que le gamay peut être vinifié et élevé différemment. Pour cela c'est intéressant. Il faut aimé le style, mais le RQP est déplorable. Surtout aucuns des vins ne démontrent une complexité, c'est monolithique, puissant, costaud. Point. (2278 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 1/19/2018 & rated 92 points: Souper du mois de janvier 2018 au resto AVV La Suite de Sherbrooke avec les FOUDUVIN.CA
Expérience beaucoup mieux que la première bu en jeunesse, faut garder l'esprit ouvert parfois, il n'y a que de bonnes bouteilles!
Bu en totale aveugle, un test de Bulle!
Robe assez dense et foncée, grenat et pourpre.
Le nez est poivré et sur les fruits noirs, donne des allures de Syrah.
En bouche, c’est concentré, le poivre blanc revient mais bien dosé avec des mures, des prunes et des cerises.
C’est soyeux et la finale est assez longue…au dévoilement, du Bojo...assez surprenant c’est le cas de le dire!
Nous étions pas mal tous sur un Rhone Nord, possiblement même sur de la côte-rotie!
PS: EVEN Philip the Bold would have enjoyed this Gamay in total blind!!!
Infos supplémentaires :
Fabien Duperray possède ce vignoble à Fleurie et Moulin-a-Vent depuis 2007 et il est planté de très vieilles vignes.
Il est très méticuleux et particulier. Que ce soit ses vignes cultivées de façon biodynamique
ou l’extraction de mauvaises herbes à la main,
les bariques de conception maison ou le long élevage de 3 années en passant par les bouchons en liège
de qualité supérieur... tout est pensé et rien n’est laissé au hasard pour donner un produit
de qualité supérieur avec le prix qui est en ligne … à 87$ la copie, en est en droit de s’attendre à du haut niveau,
de plus, ici la production y est assez limité, ce qui contribue aussi au prix élevé.
Merci René (Bulle) (2920 views) | | | Tasted by Jean-Philippe M on 4/20/2017: Beaucoup moins intéressant que son Moulins à Vent. On a une belle acidité en bouche, dr beaux fruits frais croquant, un peu de tannins et beaucoup plus de substance que les bons Beaujolais ont d'habitude. Ca reste une très belle bouteille, mais moins excitante que Moulins.
3/5 (2799 views) | | | Tasted by Derek Nadon on 4/20/2017: Un peu fermé a l'ouverture , nez de fruits frais , Graphite
en bouche c'est austère une finale minéral et tissé serré , beaucoup de concentration , très sérieux , .... trop sérieux ... sa demeure un beau vin simplement ce n'est pas ce que je m'attendais d'un beaujolais beau potentiel sur 3 4 ans (3249 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 7/24/2016 & rated 88 points: OUCH, 67$ la pièce pour du BOJO un peu austère en ce moment!
En carafe pour 3 heures et bu sur une période de +/-2 heures avec 2 autres Desjourneys acheté à la Signature.
Robe assez foncée pour un Gamay.
Nez sur les petits fruits, les herbes et le poivre...des allures de Rhone Nord.
En bouche, un vin sévère et un peu asséchant, une grosse structure et assez poivré.
Vraiment un Bojo qui se veut costaud, un peu difiicile à cerner et déguster ce vin ou les 2 autres Desjourneys ... surtout quand on est habitué à des vins de soif et de plaisirs comme les Descombes, Bouland, Foillard et Lapierre pour ne nommer que ceux là...et à fraction du prix de ces Bojo! (3141 views) | | | Tasted by phil the agony on 7/1/2016 & rated 89 points: Pas été ébloui par ce vin.Nez floral.
Mûres,plus acide et râpeux ? légèrement boisé et un petit côté réglisse et moka.Tannins serrés.
Je suis sûrement pas habitué de boire des Bojo de la sorte et je suis resté sur mon appétit pour ce vin.
15.5/20 + ? (67$) (2642 views) | | | Tasted by lkilpio on 1/1/2016: A big, massive, inky and serious wine, definitely not anything that one is used to expecting from a Beaujolais. The wine is still developing, so I will not open my last bottle until after a couple of years. (2847 views) | | | Tasted by CamWheeler on 8/6/2015 & rated 90 points: Wendouree 2013s and assorted other bottles: Graphite and blackcurrant, cherry and raspberry - hits a pretty mix of fruit aromas. Red fruits are the driver of the palate, but I like the structure as well - it has enough grip plus texture and it carries into a good length. (2332 views) | | | Tasted by mrguyot on 6/20/2015 & rated 92 points: Une concentration que j'ai rarement vu à Beaujolais. Un vin féminin avec un nez de fraises envoûtant et une profondeur qui dépasse les frontières de l'appellation. Je m'incline. (2949 views) | | | Tasted by eluebchow on 5/1/2015 & rated 90 points: This was a little tight and reserved at first, but a little air helped open it up; Nose has lots of dark fruit aromas complemented by some notes of smoke and pepper; The palate is fairly densely packed, although has a nice thread of acidity and minerals running through it; Quite tasty, and I believe it has some up side from here, although on the expensive side for Beaujolais (2624 views) | | | Tasted by lkilpio on 4/8/2015 & rated 93 points: A wonderful wine, a great effort from Desjourneys! The color is very dark. On the nose and the palate this resembles the fine wines of Côte d'Or: there are impressive notes of smoke, cigar and ripe red and dark berries. The orange peel flavors are an interesting addition to the expectable flavors of a red Burgundy wine. The taste is very pleasant, but the lively acidity gives it backbone and freshness. I had expected a bit stronger fruit on the mid-taste, but the aftertaste is long. (2407 views) | | | Tasted by Bruce 1er on 2/18/2015 & rated 90 points: Flavors of earth, dark wild cherries, coffee, and dusty tannins, and oak, wood. Not your typical cru Beaujolais. Body/weight on the lighter side, and the finish is relatively short. (2322 views) | | | Tasted by Philippe_C on 2/4/2015 & rated 93 points: wow, very nice nose of mokka, ripe dark cherries, sandalwood... tastes delicious, ripe red cherries, crisp acidity, super silky tannins, beautiful wine!! (2258 views) | | | Tasted by aekenback on 11/7/2014 & rated 88 points: Stängt var det här. Framtidsvin. (1924 views) | | | Tasted by Lilja on 10/24/2014 & rated 91 points: FW-BYOB-HT#2: ¤FW - Crazy wine, and definitely of high quality. Some really uniqueness going on in the nose, coffee, chocolate cookies, cinnamon, butter dough, vanilla, yoghurt and raisins. Almost full bodied with a high but in no way sharp acidity. Overall the wine is very smooth and very fruity. Great intensity and subsequently a long finish. Nothing to complain about here, but this is just a bit to strange for me! (2711 views) | | | Tasted by winelegends.net on 7/16/2014 & rated 94 points: Violett rot mit Wasserrand.
Kirschen,Zwetschgen,Minze,konzentriert,herrlich floral,sehr seidig,fokussiert.
Hauch Pastis,süsslich cassis,erdig,Säure-Alkohol sehr balanciert,spezielle vergnügliche einnehmende Süsse,glatte integrierte Tannine.
Langer Abgang mit einem Hauch Aenis.
Finde diesen Wein sehr beeindruckend in der Struktur,Fruchtigkeit sowie in der Balance des Ganzen.
Typizität?Buzz off. (2189 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 Fleurie The single vineyards on weinlagen-info |
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