Community Tasting Note

Keith Levenberg wrote:

Thursday, September 23, 2010 - A buck more than the Corcelette. Gotta love Beaujolais. It says "vignes plantee en 1926" right on the label, pretty nifty, and catnip for a V.V. obsessive like me. The wine, though, is significantly more challenging than the Corcelette, built in a true vin de garde style with burly, muscular tannin. It's got a fresh, fruity scent like a bowl of ripe raspberries, but on the palate the fruit profile is much deeper and grittier without the Corcelette's sense of vibrancy (ditto for the wine's literal color) or its transparent minerality. Everything about this insists on bottle age to show what it has to offer; there's no real opening-up over five hours in a decanter. Even so, although I can't exactly call this a thirst-quencher, it does retain a lot of the palate-freshening qualities that are a hallmark of Beaujolais. This isn't a pinot noir ringer, just Beaujolais in a serious and strict style that'll definitely be at the back of the vintage's drinking queue for me.

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