Find the Pinot in the Gamay

Tasted Sunday, February 16, 2020 by WhatsSamSipping with 131 views

Introduction

This was an examination into how much Gamay tends to "Pinot" as it gets older. So I put a Burgundian Pinot Noir into a thicket of Cru Beaujolais from 2009 to see if people could pick it out of the line up. All the wines were tasted blind and were open for 2 hours prior to the tasting.

Flight 1 (6 Notes)

Closing

A little less than half of the group picked out the Pinot Noir from the lineup. Some people who were better at tasting VA or noticing Carbonic had an easier time eliminating wines. While the lines were blurred a little bit between the varieties I think to really pass itself off as a Burgundian Pinot Noir the Beaujolais would have to be older to develop more secondary characteristics that it shares with Pinot.

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