Community Tasting Note

• Eudemis wrote:

  December 29, 2020 - 13.5% alcohol. Good long dense cork. Dense colour.
  Coming immediately after Daniel Bouland's marvellous Morgon Delys 2017, the present wine is immediately striking, and not in a good way; the first impression is one of imbalance, with oak and acidity sticking out in an ungainly manner.
  I have been drinking wine for long enough to know that such comparisons can be unfair because they tend to overemphasise differences. Later on, the oak is still there on the nose, but there are also pretty cherry aromas; the mouth has good structure, indeed the tannins are not resolved.
  This wine needs a lot more time, but I am not sure if the result will be worth the wait. To be revisited, but probably not repurchased.

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• thesternowl commented:

  12/29/20, 11:30 AM - Thanks for the note. Having a decent amount of experience with this particular wine, I can verify that it does, in fact, need time but patience is usually rewarded. Thibault makes this wine the same way he makes his GC wines in Cote d'Or so the oak needs time to integrate. I recently had the 2010 and it was singing.

• Eudemis commented:

  12/29/20, 11:57 AM - Thank you for your comment, I will be patient then!
  However, in my view Gamay requires a very light hand with oak; in fact unoaked is the way I like it best, but it is just my taste.

• thesternowl commented:

  12/29/20, 12:07 PM - Almost all gamay sees zero oak or very little neutral oak, if any. So your experience is the norm and well justified. The wines of Thibault Liger are an outlier. I think the fact that all of his holdings are from M-a-V make a difference. If there is a Cru that can hold up to such oak treatment, it's that one.

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