2011 Pierre-Marie Chermette Beaujolais Coeur de Vendange Vignes Centenaires

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  2/10/2016 - Enfant sauvage Likes this wine:

  Opened for City-Leicester along with a '11 Bouland Corcelette - kind of a David vs. Goliath/semi-carbonic maceration vs. traditional vinification thing. I was surprised to find I preferred this to the Bouland. I went back and forth between the two in the first hour or two they were open, but after that I generally leaned toward the Vissoux. The Bouland had a bit more depth, but this bottle developed more nuance. Lovely light fruit, cherry and black currant, along with nice floral overtones. As this got some air it also added a subtle earthy element, which I think was a lot of what made me prefer it to the Bouland. Bouland's light touch with his Corcelette and the relative heft of this Coeur de Vendange (for a semi-carbonic bojo) made for less of a stark contrast than I had anticipated. Perhaps the most surprising element of this head-to-head comparison was that the Vissoux was significantly better than the Bouland on day 2. I expected the opposite. Both wines held up decently for two days, but only the Vissoux gained at all in complexity, and then both declined. Still pretty good, but I don't think this is getting any better.

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  12/20/2015 - Isalasdad Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Wonderfully floral on the nose and light on the palette.

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  11/27/2015 - fitzi wrote:

  From magnum, served at Thanksgiving dinner, very nice and correct, nothing unduly grapey or fruity about it. Relatively refined, Burgundian Beaujolais; a big step up from the Traditionelle of the same year.

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  11/15/2015 - fitzi wrote:

  Drinking pretty well. Doesn't keep in the bottle more than two days after opening.

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  4/12/2015 - fitzi wrote:

  Nice, refined Beaujolais. Very old vines, good wine, not one to hold in my estimation.

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