2014 Paul Janin et Fils Moulin-à-Vent Les Vignes du Tremblay

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 85.7 points

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  10/21/2022 - Vinophilo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Tasting date 08/20/2017: Dark ruby in colour. Deep notes of dark cherry Amarena and super ripe strawberry nearly syrupy. Fresh background of Hibiscus Tea and red licorice. It seems that with time and air the wine sweeps off the excess sweetness on the nose and brings up a nice pencil shaving minerality, spicy anise and pink pepper. On palate it feels in a little muted phase with subtle notes of Amarena and strawberry again, green tea tannins, good plush texture and quite intense blood orange acidity. I really enjoy the tannin profile (of whole bunch origin) that helps to build up an extra layer of pleasure to the classic mellow profile of this well made Gamay. I really look forward to open a bottle in 3 to 5 years.
  
  Tasting date 10/21/2022 after one hour of slow ox: Ruby colour with pink clear hue, near opaque. Developed medium nose of forest floor, wet tilled soil and mushrooms with a fruited background of pressed flowers cranberries and cherries in more of a sour spectrum than what I recall. There is also a faint herbal campari like note that gets me back to that whole bunch influence. The palate doesn't have the same power of 5 years ago but nonetheless a good balance. The acid is still juicy but not intrusive, tannins are fully developed and both are playing a beautiful textural game with salivation. Fruit profile follows the nose with less pronounced characters but more integration, there are dried cherries and cranberry that with its acid brings in the campari like whole bunch finish with a nice bitterness reminding of the youthful liquorice that was also there a while back. Some says that good wine improves with age, some says it just changes... what if they are both right? It feels to me that change can bring improvement when things are right and this to me feels like the case.
  Nonetheless a quite atypical Gamay, very By Farr like in someway, quite pinot-noir-esque in others. Good Vino. Time to drink up if you have some.

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  1/4/2020 - vinum bonum wrote:

  Bu trop jeune, certes, comme l'a confirmé un profil plus ouvert le deuxième jour. Mais ni à l'ouverture, ni le lendemain, je ne serais parti sur un Gamay, les arômes et le goût m'emmenant bien plus au sud. Difficile à situer, dans un entre-deux aromatique et gustatif, on dirait qu'il n'a pas choisi son camp, même s'il offre beaucoup de plaisir si on arrête de se prendre la tête avec son origine, avec notamment une belle matière qui déroule facilement malgré sa concentration. Pour une prochaine expérience, attendre une dizaine d'années je pense.

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  9/30/2019 - eyewino wrote: 82 Points

  Dark plum color with a thin pink rim. Consumed with a supreme pizza, and the onions were strong enough so that I don't fully trust my impressions....sorry. Initially very closed - it took 30 minutes to open up. Nose of raspberry, pencil shaving, and mineral. Palate follows nose, with the addition of fine-grained tannins. While the initial glass was enjoyable, the following one felt....hollow. I can't tell if this is already past it's prime, or just a "never quite was". I don't dislike it, but I'm disappointed as a Cru B, it doesn't have the depth of flavor or length of finish I have come to expect from this category of wine.

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