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• Elycohn Likes this wine: 89 points

  March 21, 2021 - Raspberry is maybe the least interesting note - about as exciting as yellow birthday cake. This is good raspberry flavored wine, but raspberries can't ever be what, strawberry, cherry, violets, leather, coffee, cedar, vanilla can be. Apparently the raspberry situation ran rampant in Beaujolais in 2016. This, in spite of the environment, is well constructed with the right levels of ripeness in good balance. Has some interesting stemmy flavors and a plush silky texture, salinity on the back. If all we had in Beaujolais in 2016 is raspberries, Breton made raspberry-ade. The best with what he had.

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• Tranquility Base Likes this wine: 88 points

  April 23, 2020 - Certainly met expectations.

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• randyjc wrote: 92 points

  December 7, 2019 - Quite excellent - sharp and intense flavors of bright cherry and spice. A decent dose of minerality and acid. A superb match with a roasted chicken - it drew out the saltiness and fat and smoothed everything away. A truly lovely wine.

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• randyjc wrote: 90 points

  September 2, 2019 - Quite a lovely wine, though it needed a couple hours air and chilling to about 62 degrees. It then showed beautifully - vivid acidity, gorgeous soft beaujolais dusty, round red fruit. Super soft tannins. Just the perfect early fall evening wine.

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• Tranquility Base Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 25, 2019 - Very good, enjoyed by all to accompany a lamb concoction for dinner. This has lots of flavor; in its early stages, it's a little imbalanced in the sour cherry direction, but with some air it gains body and balance. I liked it so much that I bought another bottle. I feel like it was a little expensive, but I guess with French wines becoming more expensive generally, $33-$35 for this is not outrageous. Just expensive enough to make me go back and buy one more bottle, not three.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Guy Breton
• Varietal Gamay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Beaujolais
• Appellation Côte de Brouilly

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• In Cellars 19 (24%)
• Consumed 59 (76%)

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