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• Tony Ling Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 10, 2020 - Different releases for this vintage - at least one in 2013 and another in 2017 to my knowledge. And this particular bottle was released in 2017. PNP into Zalto Burgundy glass ("Flower" day): Medium garnet with ruby tints to the eyes with lots of fine deposits.
  
  Savoury, animale, chocolate notes upfront. With some swirls in glass reveals bright purplish and ruby cherry fruits, earthy, florals and spices. Hints of VA that does not bother
  
  Bright and mouthwatering acidity, with some VA. Good sense of minerality too. Good grip of the fruit flavours on palate. Tannins are not yet fully resolved and is a little powdery, but already quite the complete wine. Sadly some brett towards the finish that is quite spicy and long.
  
  Unique expression of Gamay that feels more like a Syrah with more ruby cherry fruits to me. Would be amazing with food. 93 points.
  
  2 hours upon opening, 2/3 left (turning “leaf” day): Clearly more luxurious set of purplish and darker red fruits. More edgy wine overall and more grippy tannins which is now better structured.
  
  12 hours upon opening, with nightly rest in fridge uncorked, small amount left in bottle: Better integration indeed, quite a bit of fine deposits towards the bottom of the bottle.

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• Tony Ling Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 23, 2020 - Different releases for this vintage - at least one in 2013 and another in 2017 to my knowledge. And this particular bottle was released in 2013. PNP into Zalto Burgundy glass ("Fruit" day): Medium garnet to the eyes with lots of fine deposits.
  
  Fresh earthy, herbal and savoury notes of seaweed. Nice underlying secondary red and purplish cherry fruits. Dash of fine spices. Some stemmy herbaceous and roasted coffee notes that adds to the complexity. There is clearly VA here but still within my acceptable range. Very nice bouquet in my view.
  
  Quite clean and refined on the palate with all the fine deposits, especially on the fruity flavours - a highly detailed spectrum of darker cherries and plums.
  
  Quite a serious effort here to me, and not unlike a high classed Syrah from Northern Rhone to the feel. Hard to put this under 93 points. Reserved for longer term observations.
  
  15 minutes upon opening, 2nd pour: Opening nicely with chocolate-like notes emerged and the first impression is really quite close to the Cote-Rotie 2015 tasted just a while ago... just without the youthful austerity and the extra smoky notes here. Good level of silky tannins too providing great grip of flavours towards the finish. Very interesting to observe the pour-to-pour evolution here. Upgrade to 93-94 points.
  
  45 minutes upon opening, 3rd pour: the integration kicks in with a highly mineral palate at this point. This wine appears to be very much alive with lots of energy to evolve further. More 94 points to me now.
  
  1 hour upon opening, 4th pour: wow the density of fruit really went up significantly now. Nicely powerful and very much an impression of a top Syrah from Northern Rhone with some age. Wow what a Beaujolais...
  
  2 hours upon opening: The fruits somehow managed to became more airy and even more detailed and less “natural”... They are not more Bourgogne Pinot like feel to it with more purplish and blue berry fruits with peels. Very interesting.
  
  3 hours upon opening, 3/4 into the bottle: just incredible how this bottle managed to get purer by every pour... There is something extra special that is honestly not easy to describe towards the end of the bottle - more red berry fruits, quite ethereal and just beautiful notes here. An extra lift compared to first opened. May be hard to imagine for most but for me this is close to 94-95 points now... For those who are lucky enough to have a bottle of this, please do take your time in enjoying this bottle, albeit it might be hard to resist finish it rather quickly.

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• pryby Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 5, 2019 - (BTG at Momofuku Ko bar)
  Really interesting and delicious Gamay - declassified to VdF. Super funky/meaty. Has the expected cru bojo acidity and mineral crunch, but little of the red fruit you’d normally see. Apparently 2011 is the current vintage - very long elevage for this wine.

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• LW31 wrote:

  February 22, 2017 - Insane levels of volatile acidity. Strangely integrated but still detracts from the wine. I suppose that left on its own for a day or two this might develop, certainly it seems that there's impressive structure and fruit there, but very hard, nay impossible, to judge at this point.

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• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Philippe Jambon
• Varietal Gamay
• Designation Baltailles
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Beaujolais
• Appellation Beaujolais-Villages

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