2015 Pierre Ponnelle Moulin-à-Vent

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 85 points

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  2/5/2019 - forceberry wrote: 79 Points

  14,5% alcohol.
  
  Deep, dark and quite intense black cherry color that permits rather little light through. Very rich and quite powerful nose with rather pronounced ethery alcohol and sweet notes of cherry marmalade, overripe strawberries, some licorice, a little bit of blackberry jam and a hint of plummy dark fruit. The hot vintage certainly shows. The wine is full-bodied, broad and quite fat on the palate with ripe, sweet-toned flavors of juicy dark berries, cherry marmalade, some plummy dark fruit, a little bit of blackberry jam, light volatile notes of nail polish remover and a hint of overripe strawberry. The wine feels quite soft and somewhat blowzy with its low acidity, but although the tannins feel quite ripe and mellow at first, the grip slowly grows as the tannins pile up on the gums. The finish is warm, soft and medium-long with rich flavors of cherry marmalade, strawberry jam, some peppery spice and a little bit of plummy fruit. The tannins make the wine finish on a moderately grippy note.
  
  Ugh. A very soft, sweet and ponderous wine that has very little to do with Beaujolais as I know it - which really seems to be the problem with the 2015 vintage. I've certainly had a few surprisingly good 2015 Bojos as well, but most of them feel more like this one: too heavy and too sweet, lacking in acidity and balance. There's no sense of freshness whatsoever and the wine lacks all that terrific drinkability that is the hallmark of a good Gamay. To me, this is a real disappointment. Not recommended.

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  3/12/2018 - qat wrote: 80 Points

  Floral, dry, sour, and potent.

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  12/10/2017 - adamanko wrote: 85 Points

  Fruits, herbs and oak. I like it.
  
  Saving half the bottle to later. See what happens.
  The half bottle plan backfired. We had it all.

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  1/20/2017 - j.holvan Likes this wine: 76 Points

  Färg: riktigt mörkröd aningen siris, få tårar stora draperier. Doft: hemma vintillverkning stark alkoholdoft, vindoft , långvarig fylligt, krusbär. Smak: mild eftersmak, inte så sträv, har en mörk smak, ej fruktig men inte heller tung. Ganska frisk och snabb smak, mild.

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