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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 163 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by drfloyd on 3/9/2024: I had a string of bad bottles but this one was in great shape - pretty, high-toned candied notes but with some tertiary earth notes, medium weight across the palate - finish is a bit short give the lighter acidity in 2009. Decent (166 views) | | | Tasted by gordoyflaca on 2/13/2024 & rated 92 points: Earthy tertiary fall leaves blackberryskins, I would drink the 2009’s now (196 views) | | | Tasted by tooby2 on 11/15/2023 & rated 90 points: Dark fruit, earth, pepper, musk, hints of strawberry. herbs. Damp autumn mist. Bramble and herbs on the palate with enough acidity still. Soft chalky tannins. Lovely soft fading finish. Opened two other bottles of this and found them over the hill. (379 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 11/8/2023: Dinner at Tonny. PnP'ed (blinded). Wonderful bouquet of dark-cherries, tea, bits of forest-floor/autumn-leaves & some spice reminded me of a wine that's just starting to gain some secondary development... but palate seemed to indicate otherwise, with primary flavours of dark/blue-berries, herbs & more spices. Still extremely youthful with a nice tannin-structure holding up the wine. Good depth & concentration & a medium-long finish. Most guessed a Burg at the 1er-cru level. It'll be extremely interesting to see how this develops further with more cellar age. (517 views) | | | Tasted by robs_r on 11/3/2023: Last bottle - delicious. Obviously aged but no traces of tiredness. Red fruited beauty. Medium long. Drink now but no danger of falling off a cliff. Excellent. (405 views) | | | Tasted by bevetroppo on 10/5/2023 & rated 92 points: A candidate for the most impressive, beautiful, haunting Beaujolais I've ever had. Until you try the right one on its 14th birthday, how would you know? This largely "natural" wine made with ambient yeasts and very low sulfur-the label says drink soon after uncorking- was way ahead of its time.
The color is a pretty translucent plum lightening toward the rim. No bubble gum on the nose! Beautiful, somber, bosky aromas remind you more of Burgundy than anything. Dark red fruits and sous bois with perhaps a touch of VA. Certainly mature on the palate, unspooling with fading dark fruit flavors, wet autumn leaves, a hint of mint and stone, gentle almost absent tannins, and dare I say it, a suggestion of dusty Cote de Nuits spice toward the finish.
If you don't like old Burgundy you won't like this, but it's pretty special if you do and are able to put it into context. I don't really have the knowledge to back it up, but a wine like this would have to be considered a forefather of the natural wine movement that IMO few of its progeny are likely to rival. When the winemaker says drink it up (in 2009) I better respect him in 2023. Another glass please before it goes. It somehow conveys a bit of sadness at the inevitable passage of time, like Hopkins' goldengrove unleaving. (776 views) | | | Tasted by gregg g on 7/10/2023: What a delightful and delicious bottle of MaV. This needed about 30 min of bottle decanting to really start popping. And pop it did. Crunchy red Pinotesque freed framed by taut acidity. Very fresh and punchy. Served with roast pork done in a sweet Chinese style. Perfect pairing. Have two more bottles to consume in the next few years. (605 views) | | | Tasted by no leashes on 5/26/2023 & rated 90 points: Nicely aged, and drinking well. (515 views) | | | Tasted by tazerowe on 1/21/2023: A forgotten, or actually lost bottle. This has aged, and gone more tertiary, but remains a solid Burgundian beaujolais. The flavors are muted, and I suspect now is better than later., but no complaints. (708 views) | | | Tasted by drfloyd on 11/11/2022: Unfortunately I still have a few more of these - and the last few were not good at all. The wine just doesn’t have enough acidity for the long haul to preserve the fruit - my last few bottles have oxidized notes, stewed fruit, whiffs of sherry, etc. And relatively flat. I have a bunch of other 2009 Bojos that are still in great shape (even Brun’s Morgon) but the Moulin-a-vent is firmly past its prime… (858 views) | | | Tasted by Neecies on 10/28/2022 flawed bottle: After reading other TNs on this, have to put it down as flawed. Very dark with asphalt and vinegar notes that don't belong here. (789 views) | | | Tasted by devraj on 9/17/2022 & rated 89 points: Dark, hazy brick red. Aromatically very shy with reddish black small fruits, sous-bois, soy, hint of dark florals and cinnamon on the nose. Sweet and savory palate shows a mix of dark berries, brown sauce, minerals, medium acidity and a medium finish. Blind this will very much pass off as an aged Beaune premier cru. (804 views) | | | Tasted by weezie on 10/8/2021 & rated 91 points: A fruit-forward wine with medium body. Delivers on expectations (actually exceeds a bit, based on the reviews below). Paired well with a variety of Chinese takeout dishes. Very nice. (1581 views) | | | Tasted by tdelorme on 8/1/2021: My last bottle, not sure what I was expecting but this was lovely. Aligned with Rieslingfan sans the watermelon bubblegum...I have a few other 09s from Terres Dorées and will need to see if I can find them. (2594 views) | | | Tasted by Gcashman on 5/30/2021 & rated 87 points: Dried fruits. Medium bodied. Maybe some mushrooms. Lacking in acidity at this point. (1542 views) | | | Tasted by Keith Levenberg on 5/26/2021: Barely budged since release. Still has that fresh bright berry fruit and firm Moulin-a-Vent structure. (3654 views) | | | Tasted by BRogo on 5/11/2021 & rated 89 points: Flowers, potpourri, lavender, lilacs, and raspberry. There’s still a tannic structure just not letting go and lots of acidity. I’m not so sure the flavor profile will change much. A bit of earth and mushroom come through with red fruit and similar flowers. It’s good. It’s ready. (1562 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 3/16/2021: Last bottle, and a very good bottle indeed. This is the most "Pinoted" of all six bottles I owned. It struck me as a lovely, properly aged Bourgogne from first sniff and sip. Not exalted at all, but comforting, like the warm blankets of the bed at home. Still showing red fruit, and also distinct earthy and leafy tones, and the only Gamay tell was the brightness of the fruit, and maybe (even perhaps in my imagination) a hint of watermelon bubblegum. It was so lovely that I drank through it rather too quickly, and it was all I could do to leave a few sips to guide me through writing this note. Goodbye old friend. (1742 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 1/13/2021: Decanted for ~3-hrs by the time we got to it, and served alongside the Jadot La Roche in a pair. Classically made, both the wines exhibited lots more (weight-wise) dark fruits than the preceding Metras Fleuries. Given that '09 was a warm vintage, this was surprisingly still very fresh, with no guesses homing in '09 and most veering towards '15. Some herbs & a little spice on the nose; Dark cherries abound & some plums too, with nice concentration/weight on the palate. A very good/well-made wine, but not much on the excitement front though, with little to no secondary notes coming through. Had been 11-yrs (now 12) since, and one kinda wonders really how long can we (or do I need to) age these Bojos? At this glacier pace (the way this '09 is currently showing), there's no hurry man! (1726 views) | | | Tasted by cweiss on 11/28/2020: Opened after a 2009 Brun Morgon was poured out because of nonspecific nogoodness. This was much better, and in a good spot for drinking. Dark fruit but light in touch. Very good acidity. No hurry to drink it. (1371 views) | | | Tasted by Andydna on 11/3/2020 & rated 90 points: Cloudy wine with lots of sediment. Not much fruit left. Lots of dark wet earth, forest, and stone. Soft tannins. Drink up. Nice, but not very enjoyable. (1307 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 7/28/2020 & rated 88 points: Was a bit funky at opening, but cleared up after 10 minutes or so. Good fruit quality and elegant drinking but I think it is done -- drink now. (1406 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 5/12/2020: I waited three years since the prior bottle (other than one that was corked...grrrr), and this is still very fresh. Deep cherry fruit, fresh, green herbs, light earth tones - it has gone a bit Burgundian in the nest sense of the word. It is flawed though, as it seems to evaporate from the glass. Whenever I look, it's gone! Drink now and over the next 10+ years. It has tons of life. (1806 views) | | | Tasted by Rollerball on 2/27/2020 & rated 90 points: Pairing red with shitake ramen ... and this worked! So earthy but with foundational dark-weathered fruit. (1615 views) | | | Tasted by WhatsSamSipping on 2/16/2020: Find the Pinot in the Gamay: Lots of dark fruit. A soft texture but still lots of tannin. Not showing any secondary characteristics. This could age for much longer. 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| i-WineReview.com, Beaujolais (5/31/2011)
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Vinous, February 2011
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JancisRobinson.com (1/12/2011)
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(Dom des Terres Dorées Moulin-à-Vent Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2010, Issue #28, The Beaujolais Treasure Trove- Newly Arriving 2009s and Plenty of Excellent Wines From the 2008, 2007 and 2006 Vintages Still To Be Had
(Moulin-à-Vent- Domaine des Terres d’Orées (Jean-Paul Brun)) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (6/6/2011)
(Domaine des Terres Dorées (Jean-Paul Brun) Moulin-à-Vent) Group's #3 (my #6) – 41 pts.; 2, 0, 1, 0 - dark ruby color; tart currant, green herb, tart plum nose; tight, tart currant, green herb, light white pepper, mineral palate; needs 1-2 years and should go 6-plus; medium-plus finish 90 points |
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| Domaine des Terres Dorées (Jean-Paul Brun) Producer website
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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)
The vineyards on weinlagen-info
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 Moulin-à-VentKnown as the "King of Beaujolais," and located in the very north of the Beaujolais region, the Moulin-à-Vent Cru boasts the most full-bodied and structured Cru Beaujolais bottlings. Floral and fruit-driven in youth, these wines often develop spicy, earthy characteristics as they age. |
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