Surprisingly young for a decade old bottle! Stunning for its focus, clarity, high intensity and raspberry fruit wrapped with minerals and doused with sweet spices. Elegantly concentrated, silky, layered and crisp. Well balanced, harmonious and long. Masterfully done.
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Naturals: Obviously a Bojo, the bubblegum notes made it clear that the wine underwent carbonic macération but the nose was floral and tart rather than jammy. Became more 3.14-like with air as the wine gained weight and structure; the gorgeous, dark cherry fruit began to sing. Great balance between intensity and elegance.
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Tasted next to 2014, 2016, and 2018. This had the most complex nose with gorgeous aromas of cherries, red fruit, and underwood. It's remarkably fresh for a 10 year old wine. Nice acidity with plush mouthfeel, tart fruit, forest floor, and berry notes on the palate. Long finish. This is simply outstanding, as good as any Beaujolais I've had.
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so this bottle was a bit less exciting than last year's bottle of the same vintage which i recalled as being stellar. nothing wrong with it per se just a bit thin compared to the 2014 and 2016 (and my recollection of last year's sampling of the 2013) definitely enjoying it, so perhaps i am being a bit too critical but somehow lacking a bit of oomph.
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Will go on for another 10+ years if you have the patience. Beautiful crunchy red fruit (cranberry, strawberry) had great energy and depth with some mushrooms and soil. The fruit was the real star here, so pure and delightful.
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That score, 95, is an understatement, but one must be judicious when praising Beaujolais. After all, it's just Beaujolais, right? Not quite. This is easily the greatest Beaujolais I've ever tasted. Nothing has ever come close. Had my first bottle two or three years ago at the great New York restaurant Brooklyn Fare, and felt that way at the time. Just found a second bottle buried in my basement, forgotten. My apologies to Monsieur Foillard for the oversight. Possibly even better than the first bottle. Silkiness and delicacy reminiscent of a Denis Bachelet Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru. This is the gamay of the gods.
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Overdue tasting; 4/17/2021-4/18/2021: What a beauty. This was so airy and floral and bright on the nose with pomegranate, sour cherry and red apple. So zippy and brisk and clean on the palate, with su h purity of red fruits. Complexities of rose petal, clay, herbs and pepper. My wine of the night, dangerously crushable but also really complex.
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Man what a great wine. Loads of cherries, strawberries, and spice. Palate has that juiciness carry over, with lively acidity. A bit more cranberry on the palate than the nose. Tasty, crushable, but with the complexity to make you think. Love it.
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Complex nose of cherries, raspberries, strawberries, and baking spices on the nose. Lovely acidity with tart cherries, red fruit, pomegranate, and cranberries on the palate. Long finish. Outstanding as always.
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Dec Catch Up @ C@B!: Andy insisted on opening this right after the Rostaing La Landonne 1998. Red fruits, strawberries, slight gummy notes. Nice floral, rose bouquet. Organic and natural in style. Very intriguing and impressive (so much so that I went out to buy the next day)! Guessed this to be a young burg. Bravo!
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Dark ruby in color, wonderful melange nose of savory dark crushed fruit, dried herbs, creosote; this is a wow wine, for its intense dark gamay fruit, savory complexity, excellent acidity in perfect balance, some moderately fine slightly chalky tannins. Very youthfu, and very delicious.
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Had some trepidation about this bottle after my awful experience with the ‘14. The brett is still here but it’s a little more integrated, and a bit more of a refined and spicy, cloves and leather kind of thing. And there’s heaps of other stuff going on like wild strawberries, sour cherries and tomato bush... some smoky, earthy, mushroomy elements too. Reminds me a lot of their regular CdP bottling in personality, just a step up in weight and intensity here perhaps. Bit of dark chocolate bitterness too, a faint chewyness on the back... but this is really acid and primary fruit driven. Bit Burgundian in style. Glad I got a better bottle here. With this amount of brett I feel like it’s a bit of a lucky dip. This one is delicious.
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This strikes me as ending its tenuous peak. That beautiful fruit remains but without its youthful playful bounce, leaving more room for the cool earth that was probably always there. The expansive mineral finish still echoes and even more so an hour after pnp. Best now-2021 but enjoyable still for a couple of years after that.
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Morgon tres abouti mais classique. Il donne soif! Belle acidité avec une structure tres équilibrée meme s’il manque un peu de complexité ( certainement parce qu’on attend qu’il surpasse sa classe tant il est abouti pour un Morgon). Vivement conseillé !
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Saturday late night at Maison Dakota. Day 2 bottle. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Funky brett already greatly diminished with air. Same tasting note as before in 2016 just that fruit is seamlessly integrated in already. If you are a greedy man like me that wants fruit with all the secondary and some tertiary elements then better to drink now already. As I said in 2016, don't hold on to this for too long unless you want tertiary juice.
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Wonderfully fragrant nose of red cherries, herbs, wet asphalt, red berries, and pomegranate. Great acidity with tart berries, orange zest, red fruit, and pomegranate on the palate. Long finish. Every bottle of this has been sublime so far, but this is probably the best.
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Tart cherries, red berries, rhubarb, and cold smoke on the beautiful nose. Medium-high acidity with pomegranate, tart raspberries, and bitter orange peel on the palate. Long finish. This has been consistently on of the benchmarks of Beaujolais!
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First bottle of this -- consistent with other notes, the best beaujolais we've had. Good aromas, full on the palate although light/fading on back of palate and not a particularly long finish. A nice bottle & glad we have more.
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Tasted at Ko Bar. Incredibly concentrated red fruits with abundant spice, earth and surprisingly spry acid. A really layered structure makes for a wine that is light on its feet but packs a punch. Lingers for minutes on the finish. Fantastic.
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Beautiful aromas with serious complexity and depth, still so weightless and transparent in the cool vintage, with layers of flavours and a silky smooth texture. Great wine, and very Foillard indeed. Drinks so easily at this juncture, yet should keep and develop for at least another five.
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Intriguing nose of red berries, asian spices, red cherries, cloves, and sweet raspberries. Good acidity with silky tannins adding nice grip. More red fruit, berries, and baking spices on the palate. Long finish. Just like the last bottle I had about a year ago, this is one of the best Beaujolais I’ve ever tasted. Amazing!
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Decanted to serve which was the right thing to do in my opinion. The nose had spice, herbs, sweet red fruit and beetroot. Palate was the highlight to distinguish itself from other bojo I had. Very deep and dense for a bojo with delicate layers. I do not agree that it is very burgundian-like. But this is a top top bojo. Thank you Ms. Bubblehead.
October Wine Dinner in DC (Eric's House in DC): beautifully elegant nose. Lighter, elegant red fruits, not a huge amount of complexity. Light bodied, great acidity, little to no tannins. None of the gamay sourness that I hate. Simple, but really beautiful. QPR..maybe not so much. But still probably the best Beajolais I've ever had.
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Medium modied, nice acidity and good cherry notes. Enough body for pork belly but still silky and elegant. Dried fruit finish. Complex. Great Gamay but at this price point a burgundy might deliver better qpr.
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From Magnum: Fragrant Gamay nose. Smooth fruity well balanced palate. Drinking at peak, but will hold (at least in large format). Additional improvement unlikely. BoJo doesn't get much better than this. Goes down all too easily!
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Lunch at Jade Court (Chicago, IL): Served double blind, but playing the player, I could have guessed it was gamay before I even poured it in my glass. The nose is truly quite nice, with all of the gamay elements that I like, without any of of those sickly candied flavours that I detest. It's fruity and earthy, with some really nice florals too. The palate is intensely fruity as well, but there seems to be enough earthiness here to cut any notion that this might be cloying. Never over-the-top in its carbonic or glou glou elements, this is a large-scaled gamay that actually displays and holds its gravitas.
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Consistent wine and notes. Tonight some added spices and pepper notes along with a "whole cluster" like stemmy note that was a great mix with the spices and other red candy flavors. Great wine that is always a pleasure to drink.
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Incredible floral perfume. Elegantly balanced, smooth and silky. Perfectly paired with Iberico pork chops - pan seared with cracked pepper, sea salt, dried garlic, touch of sugar and Bramley apple sauce on the side.
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Beautiful nose of cherries, pomegranate, red berries, and some funk. Fantastic balance on the palate with sour cherries, mint, and bitter orange. Long finish. One of the best (of not the best) Beaujolais I’ve had.
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Sensational Bojo. Really good depth of flavors - lots of red fruit and red cherries. Wonderful spices in this wine. Deep and dark red flavors that have a strong mid palate and finish. Continue to be impressed with this wine and many of the 13s.
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Smells like red fruit, cinnamon, cool coconut, and sweet urine. Bright and very flavorful toward the back of the tongue. Interesting dynamic melange of twizzler, raspberry, sumac, cider, and bitter melon. Noticeably pretty without demanding attention.
Still on young side. Good fruit, minerality and freshness. A pleasing succulence. A bit one dimensional right now. Think with another 2-3 years it will add expected complexity.
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This is a bit more accessible than '14, which isn't surprising. But not that much more accessible, and so as with '14 I'd be drinking Cote du Py today and for the next several years. Let 3.14 sleep...
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From magnum. Great bottle. Wonderful spice and complexity to this wine. Real depth and character. Blue and hints of black fruits with some charcoal and a ton of great spice. In a sweet spot right now.
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Again, knockout wine. This drinks so well right now its hard to keep your hands off these bottles. IN a great spot and think the next couple years is the sweet spot for these wines. Nuanced with good complexity. Cherry, red fruits with a little black fruit as well. Hard to find a better value for this good of a wine.
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Been looking forward to this and it did not disappoint when paired with brined, broiled chicken, brussel sprouts, and browned sweet potato cubes. Smells predominantly of cinnamon with bright, natural fruit giving the palate an edge. Complexity to give from sweet red fruit to green summer leaves and stalks to vibrant mineralité. Quickly dbl decanted but ideally at this point in its youth would give it even more air.
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Really good. Its been an interesting comp to the 2006 of this wine. For my palate these are best 4-7 years out vs 10-12. Much richer than the 2006 with more pop and expressive Bojo favors. Red candy mixed with some black fruits. Good depth and moderate concentration. Good acidity and wonderful balance. Just a great drinking wine.
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Nice barnyard funk on the nose. Seems like a bit of brett but just a touch. Bit of chalk or dusty tannin. Slight bite and some pucker. Black fruits with so little sugar. Finish is long. This is gamay all the way through, so smooth and mouth coating. Lovely.
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Decanted for around 30 mins. Light ruby color with great clarity. Quite aromatic on the nose with black pepper coated raspberries, some fresh savory herbs, cranberry, orange peel, iron, floral notes and more. Every time I put my nose back in the glass I smelled something different. Lithe on the palate with great acidity and a mix of fruit and earth with many of the same aromas translating to flavors. Tart red fruits with orange, black pepper, meat, etc. Just spectacular. So light and drinkable for a wine of this complexity. For sure the most complex gamay I have ever had. Expensive for Beaujolais? Yes. Expensive for this type of quality and enjoyment. Heck no!
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So good, so pure, so deep. Completely alive and kicking. Superb concentration - just massives of cherry fruit and red berries laced with smoke, dried red flowers and all sorts of spice. Dancing with minerality, intense smokiness, stones. Laser precise. Opened up over over an hour so to really develop and give more. It had the characteristic baryard whif at the start but that completely went after 20 mins. Fruit became slightly more candied and cherries went to blackberry/morello as the bottle opened up. Oh man! I could only get 2 btls. Probably going to leave my second btl a good 5 yrs as this has the concentration of fruit to go a long way
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Champagne Dinner (Etto - DC): Pure, vibrant, floral, airy, but lots to unpack. Pure cherry and pomegranate fruit laced with earth, soy, sage, hints of pepper, meat and iron. Interesting to see what happens with a handful of years in the cellar.
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This is reference-quality Bojo. Light on its feet and hyper-pure with a pronounced stoniness that is so rare in red wine. Unlike some other luxe Bojo cuvees -- in particular, the Metras Ultime -- this is subtle and not notably bold, but the balance is near-perfect and there is sneaky depth. Expensive for Bojo but not too many wines I prefer at this price point. Wish I had more.
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I don't find this distinctively different from the Côte de Py. It's a wonderful, floral wine with small red and blue berries oozing from the glass. Juicy and delicious with some orange and earthy marks on the palate. Good acidity, good freshness, good length. I could drink this all day long.
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A floral, earthy nose with some fruit (blood oranges). A bit of funk, like decaying fruit, on the nose. Lighter bodied, but with tart acidity and a persistent finish. This will benefit from cellaring. 12.5% abv.
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One of the best Cru Bojo's out there IMO. Cherry, spice and red candy on the nose. This wine is nicely complex and wonderfully aromatic. Medium body and a good finish. Overall hard to beat this quality level in Burgundy for fifty bucks.
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nose:lots of floral notes,spice,perfume,some moussey,plum,incense
palate:radiant red fruits thanks to the acidity.complexity pretty decent but can b better.with more air gain more depth.long finishong.show some rustic with more air.ripe red fruits
notes:plum,cherry,sweet spice,incense,perfume
conclusion:gues nd a few more years to tone down the slightly rustic texture but again with the rather perfumy at the present stage n if the fruits is going backwards in a few yrs time,wil the perfumy nose b over powering by then
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Wax sealed top. Pop and poured. Appearance is mildly cloudy, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs. Nose is not clean, medium+ intensity, with funky brett, animal, earth, dark red cherry, fresh perfumy violets, spices, ripe brown stems. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (12.5%), smooth medium tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of concentrated sweet dark red cherries, animal, earth, sweet spices, ripe stem, hints of dark red plum. Long finish. Outstanding quality. Put the brett issue aside for a moment. This is probably one of the best Beaujolais Cru I have had so far. So drinkable and showing so well now already. Could develop slightly over the next 3-4 years, but I don't think this will go for much more. From Foillard's oldest vines in Morgon Cote du Py, and only made in vintages that Foillard thinks will make a distinctly interesting wine separate from his regular Côte du Py. The height of Beaujolais/Gamay, this is probably as good as it gets man!
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Super impressed with this. Lots of fruit on the Nose and palate. Black currant and blackberry. Touch of strawberry. Put on more body with time in the glass (day 2). Silky tannins. I really enjoyed this.
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Coche dinner: Decanted 3 hours before drinking. Appearance clear, medium purple-ruby. Nose was clean, pronounced intensity of red fruits, black fruits, sweet and pungent spices, animal, brett. Palate was dry, medium+ acidity, low tannin, medium bodied. Flavours of ripe, succulent red & black fruits, cranberries, cherries, vanilla oak. Medium+ finish. The brett and oak did not seem overbearing. Nice structure overall. Well integrated and balanced.
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This is very good. Strong. Somehow its both a full body wine and incredibly light at the same time. Deep full flavors. Loads of cherry and strawberry and other red fruits. Solid acidity that is in perfect balance with all the other elements in here. Definition of "cru" bojo. 93+
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Drank at Rebelle NYC. A bit tight at first but this opened up over the course of 2 hours in large burgundy glasses. Medium ruby color. Nose of earthy, root vegetables, cranberries, tart raspberries, a whiff of B.O. (it wasn't me), mineral rich soil. Wow. Red fruit and earth driven on the palate with a huge streak of mouth watering acidity that almost was too much for the fruit but I dug it and I think the wine came together a bit more towards the end and absolutely slayed when drank with some shavings of comte chesse. Long finish. Killer wine. One of the best cru bojo I have had.
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Plummy red in color with a ruby core. Cherry compote on the nose. Lots of fruit. Silky on the palate. Very smooth. There is a soil component, slightly mineral. There is a good dollop of acid but it is well sewed in. Finish is dry and of mid length. There's great craftsmanship in the integration of this wine. Great effort.
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New Jean Foillard Releases (SF Wine Trading Company): Light ruby, and again, incomplete clarity. Light brett on the nose. Medium weight but great concentration and depth for Gamay. Essence of black cherry. Pretty amazing mid-palate feel with drying earth and stoniness on the long finish. Again, if the brett doesn't overtake the wine, this could be incredible down the road. Its fruit calls to mind the 2009, but this vintage seems much more bound up in its structure.
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Slightly less deep in color than the 2014 Côte du Py but much more restrained aromatically with subdued cherry and much more soil. More typical Gamay weight, higher acidity, and just incredible lingering minerality that leaves a sense of rock dust long after you swallow the wine. Fine embedded acidity but no tartness whatsoever. This needs time and is a dead ringer for a top notch, stony Burgundy Premier Cru wine. The contrast between this and the 2014 mentioned above could hardly be more stark; they are both phenomenal and speak eloquently of the differences in their respective vintages.
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This has a strong base of geological matter upon which dense, lively fruits play. It is sweet and intense with a sappy feel against the gums. It really build through the palate and is quite expansive on the finish.
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11/26/2023 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 94 Points
Surprisingly young for a decade old bottle! Stunning for its focus, clarity, high intensity and raspberry fruit wrapped with minerals and doused with sweet spices. Elegantly concentrated, silky, layered and crisp. Well balanced, harmonious and long. Masterfully done.
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9/25/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 92 Points
Naturals: Obviously a Bojo, the bubblegum notes made it clear that the wine underwent carbonic macération but the nose was floral and tart rather than jammy. Became more 3.14-like with air as the wine gained weight and structure; the gorgeous, dark cherry fruit began to sing. Great balance between intensity and elegance.
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7/27/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 96 Points
Tasted next to 2014, 2016, and 2018. This had the most complex nose with gorgeous aromas of cherries, red fruit, and underwood. It's remarkably fresh for a 10 year old wine. Nice acidity with plush mouthfeel, tart fruit, forest floor, and berry notes on the palate. Long finish. This is simply outstanding, as good as any Beaujolais I've had.
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6/19/2022 - sc175 wrote: 94 Points
Great stuff...
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5/18/2022 - jory Likes this wine: 91 Points
so this bottle was a bit less exciting than last year's bottle of the same vintage which i recalled as being stellar. nothing wrong with it per se just a bit thin compared to the 2014 and 2016 (and my recollection of last year's sampling of the 2013) definitely enjoying it, so perhaps i am being a bit too critical but somehow lacking a bit of oomph.
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11/11/2021 - JohnParent Likes this wine: 96 Points
Will go on for another 10+ years if you have the patience. Beautiful crunchy red fruit (cranberry, strawberry) had great energy and depth with some mushrooms and soil. The fruit was the real star here, so pure and delightful.
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5/8/2021 - fred o. Likes this wine:
burgers in the backyard: Cloudy red color.
Nose mineral, stony.
Palate mineral, red cherries. Still young and structured. 91 pts
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5/8/2021 - SophieR Likes this wine: 95 Points
That score, 95, is an understatement, but one must be judicious when praising Beaujolais. After all, it's just Beaujolais, right? Not quite. This is easily the greatest Beaujolais I've ever tasted. Nothing has ever come close. Had my first bottle two or three years ago at the great New York restaurant Brooklyn Fare, and felt that way at the time. Just found a second bottle buried in my basement, forgotten. My apologies to Monsieur Foillard for the oversight. Possibly even better than the first bottle. Silkiness and delicacy reminiscent of a Denis Bachelet Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru. This is the gamay of the gods.
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4/18/2021 - isaacjamesbaker Likes this wine: 94 Points
Overdue tasting; 4/17/2021-4/18/2021: What a beauty. This was so airy and floral and bright on the nose with pomegranate, sour cherry and red apple. So zippy and brisk and clean on the palate, with su h purity of red fruits. Complexities of rose petal, clay, herbs and pepper. My wine of the night, dangerously crushable but also really complex.
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2/23/2021 - mye wrote:
Man what a great wine. Loads of cherries, strawberries, and spice. Palate has that juiciness carry over, with lively acidity. A bit more cranberry on the palate than the nose. Tasty, crushable, but with the complexity to make you think. Love it.
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12/29/2020 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points
Complex nose of cherries, raspberries, strawberries, and baking spices on the nose. Lovely acidity with tart cherries, red fruit, pomegranate, and cranberries on the palate. Long finish. Outstanding as always.
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12/18/2020 - dnnk88 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dec Catch Up @ C@B!: Andy insisted on opening this right after the Rostaing La Landonne 1998. Red fruits, strawberries, slight gummy notes. Nice floral, rose bouquet. Organic and natural in style. Very intriguing and impressive (so much so that I went out to buy the next day)! Guessed this to be a young burg. Bravo!
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11/4/2020 - alanr wrote: 94 Points
Dark ruby in color, wonderful melange nose of savory dark crushed fruit, dried herbs, creosote; this is a wow wine, for its intense dark gamay fruit, savory complexity, excellent acidity in perfect balance, some moderately fine slightly chalky tannins. Very youthfu, and very delicious.
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10/30/2020 - Milliontown wrote: 94 Points
Had some trepidation about this bottle after my awful experience with the ‘14. The brett is still here but it’s a little more integrated, and a bit more of a refined and spicy, cloves and leather kind of thing. And there’s heaps of other stuff going on like wild strawberries, sour cherries and tomato bush... some smoky, earthy, mushroomy elements too. Reminds me a lot of their regular CdP bottling in personality, just a step up in weight and intensity here perhaps. Bit of dark chocolate bitterness too, a faint chewyness on the back... but this is really acid and primary fruit driven. Bit Burgundian in style. Glad I got a better bottle here. With this amount of brett I feel like it’s a bit of a lucky dip. This one is delicious.
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7/12/2020 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
This strikes me as ending its tenuous peak. That beautiful fruit remains but without its youthful playful bounce, leaving more room for the cool earth that was probably always there. The expansive mineral finish still echoes and even more so an hour after pnp. Best now-2021 but enjoyable still for a couple of years after that.
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5/3/2020 - Benji La Malice Likes this wine: 91 Points
Morgon tres abouti mais classique. Il donne soif! Belle acidité avec une structure tres équilibrée meme s’il manque un peu de complexité ( certainement parce qu’on attend qu’il surpasse sa classe tant il est abouti pour un Morgon). Vivement conseillé !
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3/14/2020 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 93 Points
Saturday late night at Maison Dakota. Day 2 bottle. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
Funky brett already greatly diminished with air. Same tasting note as before in 2016 just that fruit is seamlessly integrated in already.
If you are a greedy man like me that wants fruit with all the secondary and some tertiary elements then better to drink now already. As I said in 2016, don't hold on to this for too long unless you want tertiary juice.
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2/11/2020 - Lord Rodney wrote: 92 Points
This bottle was more young Than the last - incredible. It really needs much more time. Like
A great cote de nuits but with funk
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8/9/2019 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wonderfully fragrant nose of red cherries, herbs, wet asphalt, red berries, and pomegranate. Great acidity with tart berries, orange zest, red fruit, and pomegranate on the palate. Long finish. Every bottle of this has been sublime so far, but this is probably the best.
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3/21/2019 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tart cherries, red berries, rhubarb, and cold smoke on the beautiful nose. Medium-high acidity with pomegranate, tart raspberries, and bitter orange peel on the palate. Long finish. This has been consistently on of the benchmarks of Beaujolais!
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3/14/2019 - PVJC Likes this wine: 93 Points
First bottle of this -- consistent with other notes, the best beaujolais we've had. Good aromas, full on the palate although light/fading on back of palate and not a particularly long finish. A nice bottle & glad we have more.
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2/9/2019 - Bagwhat Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tasted at Ko Bar.
Incredibly concentrated red fruits with abundant spice, earth and surprisingly spry acid. A really layered structure makes for a wine that is light on its feet but packs a punch. Lingers for minutes on the finish. Fantastic.
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12/23/2018 - Finare Vinare wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful aromas with serious complexity and depth, still so weightless and transparent in the cool vintage, with layers of flavours and a silky smooth texture. Great wine, and very Foillard indeed. Drinks so easily at this juncture, yet should keep and develop for at least another five.
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12/16/2018 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points
Intriguing nose of red berries, asian spices, red cherries, cloves, and sweet raspberries. Good acidity with silky tannins adding nice grip. More red fruit, berries, and baking spices on the palate. Long finish. Just like the last bottle I had about a year ago, this is one of the best Beaujolais I’ve ever tasted. Amazing!
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11/23/2018 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted to serve which was the right thing to do in my opinion. The nose had spice, herbs, sweet red fruit and beetroot. Palate was the highlight to distinguish itself from other bojo I had. Very deep and dense for a bojo with delicate layers. I do not agree that it is very burgundian-like. But this is a top top bojo. Thank you Ms. Bubblehead.
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11/11/2018 - Lord Rodney wrote: 93 Points
Absolutly amazing wine! It will only grow in time! The depth is like a great Burgundy
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10/20/2018 - ericindc Likes this wine: 92 Points
October Wine Dinner in DC (Eric's House in DC): beautifully elegant nose. Lighter, elegant red fruits, not a huge amount of complexity. Light bodied, great acidity, little to no tannins. None of the gamay sourness that I hate. Simple, but really beautiful. QPR..maybe not so much. But still probably the best Beajolais I've ever had.
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9/29/2018 - huguito wrote: 90 Points
Needs time
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9/23/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
These just keep on delivering great quality and even better price to quality. An awesome wine for what it is.
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9/2/2018 - vinorsk Likes this wine:
Medium modied, nice acidity and good cherry notes. Enough body for pork belly but still silky and elegant. Dried fruit finish. Complex. Great Gamay but at this price point a burgundy might deliver better qpr.
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8/1/2018 - melzar wrote: 93 Points
From Magnum: Fragrant Gamay nose. Smooth fruity well balanced palate. Drinking at peak, but will hold (at least in large format). Additional improvement unlikely. BoJo doesn't get much better than this. Goes down all too easily!
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7/22/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Lunch at Jade Court (Chicago, IL): Served double blind, but playing the player, I could have guessed it was gamay before I even poured it in my glass. The nose is truly quite nice, with all of the gamay elements that I like, without any of of those sickly candied flavours that I detest. It's fruity and earthy, with some really nice florals too. The palate is intensely fruity as well, but there seems to be enough earthiness here to cut any notion that this might be cloying. Never over-the-top in its carbonic or glou glou elements, this is a large-scaled gamay that actually displays and holds its gravitas.
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5/18/2018 - PC73 wrote: 92 Points
Delicious. Serve this blind and you could confuse with decent Gevrey.
Light on its feet. Elegant. Tasty.
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5/12/2018 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nice, but seemed a bit closed / not as expressive as last bottle
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2/24/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Consistent wine and notes. Tonight some added spices and pepper notes along with a "whole cluster" like stemmy note that was a great mix with the spices and other red candy flavors. Great wine that is always a pleasure to drink.
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2/15/2018 - Corgi wrote: 95 Points
Incredible floral perfume. Elegantly balanced, smooth and silky. Perfectly paired with Iberico pork chops - pan seared with cracked pepper, sea salt, dried garlic, touch of sugar and Bramley apple sauce on the side.
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1/27/2018 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
Sweet dark grass and cola; bright cherry on a lacy, vertical frame of lemon/ lime; ultimately fresh and alive; nuanced, long, sweet-tart finish.
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1/19/2018 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points
Beautiful nose of cherries, pomegranate, red berries, and some funk. Fantastic balance on the palate with sour cherries, mint, and bitter orange. Long finish. One of the best (of not the best) Beaujolais I’ve had.
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11/26/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sensational Bojo. Really good depth of flavors - lots of red fruit and red cherries. Wonderful spices in this wine. Deep and dark red flavors that have a strong mid palate and finish. Continue to be impressed with this wine and many of the 13s.
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11/19/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 92 Points
Smells like red fruit, cinnamon, cool coconut, and sweet urine. Bright and very flavorful toward the back of the tongue. Interesting dynamic melange of twizzler, raspberry, sumac, cider, and bitter melon. Noticeably pretty without demanding attention.
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9/29/2017 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Still on young side. Good fruit, minerality and freshness. A pleasing succulence. A bit one dimensional right now. Think with another 2-3 years it will add expected complexity.
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8/19/2017 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
This is a bit more accessible than '14, which isn't surprising. But not that much more accessible, and so as with '14 I'd be drinking Cote du Py today and for the next several years. Let 3.14 sleep...
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7/22/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 Points
From magnum. Great bottle. Wonderful spice and complexity to this wine. Real depth and character. Blue and hints of black fruits with some charcoal and a ton of great spice. In a sweet spot right now.
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7/10/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 Points
Again, knockout wine. This drinks so well right now its hard to keep your hands off these bottles. IN a great spot and think the next couple years is the sweet spot for these wines. Nuanced with good complexity. Cherry, red fruits with a little black fruit as well. Hard to find a better value for this good of a wine.
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5/22/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Ruby. Floral nose. Medium weight, lots of cranberry and stone. Showing classic, lean, and tart right now.
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4/28/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 92 Points
Been looking forward to this and it did not disappoint when paired with brined, broiled chicken, brussel sprouts, and browned sweet potato cubes. Smells predominantly of cinnamon with bright, natural fruit giving the palate an edge. Complexity to give from sweet red fruit to green summer leaves and stalks to vibrant mineralité. Quickly dbl decanted but ideally at this point in its youth would give it even more air.
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4/22/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really good. Its been an interesting comp to the 2006 of this wine. For my palate these are best 4-7 years out vs 10-12. Much richer than the 2006 with more pop and expressive Bojo favors. Red candy mixed with some black fruits. Good depth and moderate concentration. Good acidity and wonderful balance. Just a great drinking wine.
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3/30/2017 - Steve Brickley Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nice barnyard funk on the nose. Seems like a bit of brett but just a touch. Bit of chalk or dusty tannin. Slight bite and some pucker. Black fruits with so little sugar. Finish is long. This is gamay all the way through, so smooth and mouth coating. Lovely.
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3/14/2017 - Rich S Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted for around 30 mins. Light ruby color with great clarity. Quite aromatic on the nose with black pepper coated raspberries, some fresh savory herbs, cranberry, orange peel, iron, floral notes and more. Every time I put my nose back in the glass I smelled something different. Lithe on the palate with great acidity and a mix of fruit and earth with many of the same aromas translating to flavors. Tart red fruits with orange, black pepper, meat, etc. Just spectacular. So light and drinkable for a wine of this complexity. For sure the most complex gamay I have ever had. Expensive for Beaujolais? Yes. Expensive for this type of quality and enjoyment. Heck no!
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2/20/2017 - Ben85 Likes this wine:
So good, so pure, so deep. Completely alive and kicking. Superb concentration - just massives of cherry fruit and red berries laced with smoke, dried red flowers and all sorts of spice. Dancing with minerality, intense smokiness, stones. Laser precise. Opened up over over an hour so to really develop and give more. It had the characteristic baryard whif at the start but that completely went after 20 mins. Fruit became slightly more candied and cherries went to blackberry/morello as the bottle opened up. Oh man! I could only get 2 btls. Probably going to leave my second btl a good 5 yrs as this has the concentration of fruit to go a long way
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1/30/2017 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 91 Points
Champagne Dinner (Etto - DC): Pure, vibrant, floral, airy, but lots to unpack. Pure cherry and pomegranate fruit laced with earth, soy, sage, hints of pepper, meat and iron. Interesting to see what happens with a handful of years in the cellar.
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1/22/2017 - rc@ughey Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is reference-quality Bojo. Light on its feet and hyper-pure with a pronounced stoniness that is so rare in red wine. Unlike some other luxe Bojo cuvees -- in particular, the Metras Ultime -- this is subtle and not notably bold, but the balance is near-perfect and there is sneaky depth. Expensive for Bojo but not too many wines I prefer at this price point. Wish I had more.
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1/20/2017 - pbaek wrote:
I don't find this distinctively different from the Côte de Py. It's a wonderful, floral wine with small red and blue berries oozing from the glass. Juicy and delicious with some orange and earthy marks on the palate. Good acidity, good freshness, good length. I could drink this all day long.
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1/10/2017 - DrakkarNoir Likes this wine:
A floral, earthy nose with some fruit (blood oranges). A bit of funk, like decaying fruit, on the nose. Lighter bodied, but with tart acidity and a persistent finish. This will benefit from cellaring. 12.5% abv.
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12/22/2016 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
One of the best Cru Bojo's out there IMO. Cherry, spice and red candy on the nose. This wine is nicely complex and wonderfully aromatic. Medium body and a good finish. Overall hard to beat this quality level in Burgundy for fifty bucks.
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11/6/2016 - sebastienjm wrote: 91 Points
La signature foillard, très floral, vieilles roses, un côté terrien, un fruit terriblement séducteur, belle réussite sur cette cuvée
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10/22/2016 - clairenclarence wrote: 92 Points
pop n pour
nose:lots of floral notes,spice,perfume,some moussey,plum,incense
palate:radiant red fruits thanks to the acidity.complexity pretty decent but can b better.with more air gain more depth.long finishong.show some rustic with more air.ripe red fruits
notes:plum,cherry,sweet spice,incense,perfume
conclusion:gues nd a few more years to tone down the slightly rustic texture but again with the rather perfumy at the present stage n if the fruits is going backwards in a few yrs time,wil the perfumy nose b over powering by then
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10/20/2016 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wax sealed top. Pop and poured.
Appearance is mildly cloudy, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is not clean, medium+ intensity, with funky brett, animal, earth, dark red cherry, fresh perfumy violets, spices, ripe brown stems. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (12.5%), smooth medium tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of concentrated sweet dark red cherries, animal, earth, sweet spices, ripe stem, hints of dark red plum. Long finish.
Outstanding quality. Put the brett issue aside for a moment. This is probably one of the best Beaujolais Cru I have had so far. So drinkable and showing so well now already. Could develop slightly over the next 3-4 years, but I don't think this will go for much more.
From Foillard's oldest vines in Morgon Cote du Py, and only made in vintages that Foillard thinks will make a distinctly interesting wine separate from his regular Côte du Py.
The height of Beaujolais/Gamay, this is probably as good as it gets man!
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10/12/2016 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Super impressed with this.
Lots of fruit on the Nose and palate. Black currant and blackberry. Touch of strawberry.
Put on more body with time in the glass (day 2).
Silky tannins.
I really enjoyed this.
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10/9/2016 - Kemo Sabe wrote: 93 Points
Very good, again. This is drinking well right now and I am sure with a few years it will gain some complexity. Very well done.
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9/15/2016 - dkstar1 wrote: 92 Points
Some wines really do it for me. And this is one of them. Surprised and how great it showed so soon after release. Better buy a bunch more of these.
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8/30/2016 - kelvchua wrote: 93 Points
Coche dinner: Decanted 3 hours before drinking.
Appearance clear, medium purple-ruby.
Nose was clean, pronounced intensity of red fruits, black fruits, sweet and pungent spices, animal, brett.
Palate was dry, medium+ acidity, low tannin, medium bodied. Flavours of ripe, succulent red & black fruits, cranberries, cherries, vanilla oak.
Medium+ finish. The brett and oak did not seem overbearing. Nice structure overall. Well integrated and balanced.
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8/27/2016 - Kemo Sabe wrote: 93 Points
This is very good. Strong. Somehow its both a full body wine and incredibly light at the same time. Deep full flavors. Loads of cherry and strawberry and other red fruits. Solid acidity that is in perfect balance with all the other elements in here. Definition of "cru" bojo. 93+
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8/5/2016 - Rich S Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank at Rebelle NYC. A bit tight at first but this opened up over the course of 2 hours in large burgundy glasses. Medium ruby color. Nose of earthy, root vegetables, cranberries, tart raspberries, a whiff of B.O. (it wasn't me), mineral rich soil. Wow. Red fruit and earth driven on the palate with a huge streak of mouth watering acidity that almost was too much for the fruit but I dug it and I think the wine came together a bit more towards the end and absolutely slayed when drank with some shavings of comte chesse. Long finish. Killer wine. One of the best cru bojo I have had.
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5/19/2016 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 92 Points
Plummy red in color with a ruby core. Cherry compote on the nose. Lots of fruit. Silky on the palate. Very smooth. There is a soil component, slightly mineral. There is a good dollop of acid but it is well sewed in. Finish is dry and of mid length. There's great craftsmanship in the integration of this wine. Great effort.
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5/15/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
New Jean Foillard Releases (SF Wine Trading Company): Light ruby, and again, incomplete clarity. Light brett on the nose. Medium weight but great concentration and depth for Gamay. Essence of black cherry. Pretty amazing mid-palate feel with drying earth and stoniness on the long finish. Again, if the brett doesn't overtake the wine, this could be incredible down the road. Its fruit calls to mind the 2009, but this vintage seems much more bound up in its structure.
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4/22/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Slightly less deep in color than the 2014 Côte du Py but much more restrained aromatically with subdued cherry and much more soil. More typical Gamay weight, higher acidity, and just incredible lingering minerality that leaves a sense of rock dust long after you swallow the wine. Fine embedded acidity but no tartness whatsoever. This needs time and is a dead ringer for a top notch, stony Burgundy Premier Cru wine. The contrast between this and the 2014 mentioned above could hardly be more stark; they are both phenomenal and speak eloquently of the differences in their respective vintages.
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6/22/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This has a strong base of geological matter upon which dense, lively fruits play. It is sweet and intense with a sappy feel against the gums. It really build through the palate and is quite expansive on the finish.
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