Very 'Gamay done right' nose, that is for sure. You get lots of light fruit, but also lots of earthy/salty/mineral smells. Nice violet/red color. Tasty on the palate. Maybe just a bit to light, but it married well with many Thanksgiving foods.
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Beaujolais' Hidden Depths, presented by Tim Atkin MW (London): A 9 hectare domain, owned by Pierre-Marie Chermette since 1992. The wine is fermented in stainless steel and cement tanks. It then spends six months in one-third new oak, two-thirds used (between 1 and seven years old). There's strawberry and raspberry fruit on the nose. Very nice palate with the oak only really evident onthe finish.
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back to as good as it was on Thanksgiving...bottle variation? Anyway, see my note from thanksgiving, performed the same (good, robust, fruit, earth, etc).
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One dimensional this time (perhaps on Thanksgiving I just missed the boat?). Good fruit, very good food wine, just not with the complexity I got a month ago.
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slight TCA, though enough to make the wine horrible...down the drain. Very disappointed as I was using this to show some others how good cru Beaujolais can be, as I had a great bottle over Thanksgiving. Instead, there skepticism remains intact!
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Wow, this was delicious. The color was a rich and clean ruby. It had good juicy fruit, nice mineral component, and a lush and seamless body. The most notable thing about this wine was that every time I finished a glass of it, I wanted another even after the bottle was gone. No, it wasn't an intellectual experience, but it was very fun.
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Lovely and compelling Gamay here. I don't often want to drink a whole bottle of wine but I found myself instinctively driven to keep returning to the bottle like one of the zombies from Night of the Living Dead - but I digress. This wine offers a floral, red fruited bouquet scented with cinnamon, smoke and a slight touch of earthy funk. It is wonderful in the mouth with beams of ripe and tart red fruit with a touch of fruit pit bitterness. (I believe that this bitter streak is an important part of what drives my zombie like addiction to this wine.) Somewhere at the core of this wine there is also a beautiful sensation of perfectly ripe Royal Anne cherries. The finish is medium long with juicy acidity and smokey minerals driving the boat. Most importantly all of these elements exist together as part of a balanced and harmonious whole. Outstanding.
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Nose of ripe red cherry, cranberry, rhubarb. Lots of red fruit on the palate - strawberries, cherries, cranberries. Silky in the mouth. with balanced acidity and just a touch of astringency from tannin. The finish falls off pretty quickly. Tasty but rather simple, feels like it's holding back. After a night in the fridge, a meatier nose of cherry liqueur, prune, forest floor. Palate is pretty shut down unfortunately, giving just a rosé-like hint of crunchy red fruit. Retasted over several days this came back a bit, particularly the finish, but it just never quite gave up the goods. Some nice, juicy gamay fruit was certainly there for the drinking but overall it's a little disjointed and definitely comes across as a simpler wine than the Moulin-a-Vent Trois Roches in 2006.
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11/25/2010 - cadamson wrote: 90 Points
Very 'Gamay done right' nose, that is for sure. You get lots of light fruit, but also lots of earthy/salty/mineral smells. Nice violet/red color. Tasty on the palate. Maybe just a bit to light, but it married well with many Thanksgiving foods.
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12/3/2009 - mebydef wrote: 89 Points
A bit lean, but very interesting. The vegetal aspect was complemented by bright red fruits. Good length and delicious.
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6/20/2009 - jdengis wrote: 91 Points
Fantastic ! Focused, deep, complex yet utterly drinkable. Has a future but why wait ?
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5/12/2009 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 89 Points
Beaujolais' Hidden Depths, presented by Tim Atkin MW (London): A 9 hectare domain, owned by Pierre-Marie Chermette since 1992. The wine is fermented in stainless steel and cement tanks. It then spends six months in one-third new oak, two-thirds used (between 1 and seven years old).
There's strawberry and raspberry fruit on the nose. Very nice palate with the oak only really evident onthe finish.
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1/3/2009 - cadamson wrote: 91 Points
back to as good as it was on Thanksgiving...bottle variation? Anyway, see my note from thanksgiving, performed the same (good, robust, fruit, earth, etc).
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12/28/2008 - cadamson wrote: 87 Points
One dimensional this time (perhaps on Thanksgiving I just missed the boat?). Good fruit, very good food wine, just not with the complexity I got a month ago.
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12/27/2008 - cadamson wrote: flawed
slight TCA, though enough to make the wine horrible...down the drain. Very disappointed as I was using this to show some others how good cru Beaujolais can be, as I had a great bottle over Thanksgiving. Instead, there skepticism remains intact!
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11/26/2008 - cadamson wrote: 92 Points
You must try this, what a great wine...never had a Beaujolais like this, would be great blind. Great depth, long finish, wow...
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10/2/2008 - mebydef wrote: 91 Points
Wow, this was delicious. The color was a rich and clean ruby. It had good juicy fruit, nice mineral component, and a lush and seamless body. The most notable thing about this wine was that every time I finished a glass of it, I wanted another even after the bottle was gone. No, it wasn't an intellectual experience, but it was very fun.
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9/17/2008 - greenblanket wrote:
Lovely and compelling Gamay here. I don't often want to drink a whole bottle of wine but I found myself instinctively driven to keep returning to the bottle like one of the zombies from Night of the Living Dead - but I digress. This wine offers a floral, red fruited bouquet scented with cinnamon, smoke and a slight touch of earthy funk. It is wonderful in the mouth with beams of ripe and tart red fruit with a touch of fruit pit bitterness. (I believe that this bitter streak is an important part of what drives my zombie like addiction to this wine.) Somewhere at the core of this wine there is also a beautiful sensation of perfectly ripe Royal Anne cherries. The finish is medium long with juicy acidity and smokey minerals driving the boat. Most importantly all of these elements exist together as part of a balanced and harmonious whole. Outstanding.
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2/4/2008 - 5laton wrote: 88 Points
Nose of ripe red cherry, cranberry, rhubarb. Lots of red fruit on the palate - strawberries, cherries, cranberries. Silky in the mouth. with balanced acidity and just a touch of astringency from tannin. The finish falls off pretty quickly. Tasty but rather simple, feels like it's holding back. After a night in the fridge, a meatier nose of cherry liqueur, prune, forest floor. Palate is pretty shut down unfortunately, giving just a rosé-like hint of crunchy red fruit. Retasted over several days this came back a bit, particularly the finish, but it just never quite gave up the goods. Some nice, juicy gamay fruit was certainly there for the drinking but overall it's a little disjointed and definitely comes across as a simpler wine than the Moulin-a-Vent Trois Roches in 2006.
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