2016 Domaine J. Chamonard Morgon Le Clos de Lys

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  3/18/2020 - Bearbus Likes this wine:

  A little bit old school, with the berry fruit profile of trad semi-carbonic and a hint of old wood. Quite high acidity combined with reasonably sticky tannins that build on the gums, lovely lightness without being hollow at all. Very good, would go again

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  7/23/2019 - bjlcrucrazy Likes this wine:

  very nice

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  3/18/2019 - Rhone Rick Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Ok... classic carbonic gamay profile, leathery red fruit and a bit of must. Trying to decide if I can lay some down for 5-10yrs but not sure it has sufficient tannins. Hmmm....otherwise, a stunner.

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  2/5/2019 - forceberry wrote: 95 Points

  A naturalist Morgon made with late-harvested, uncertified organic grapes from 60 yo vineyard. Fermented partially with carbonic maceration, partially with indigenous yeasts. Aged in large, neutral oak foudres. Bottled unfiltered and without sulfites. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite pale and very translucent ruby red color with a subtly purplish core and an almost colorless rim. Very open, fragrant and somewhat funky nose with aromas of perfumed violets, bretty leather, some medicinal tones, a little bit of sappy red berries, a sweeter hint of brambly raspberry and a Campari-like touch of chinotto zest. The wine is medium-bodied, very intense and wonderfully acid-driven with wild and crunchy flavors of tart lingonberries, sour cherry bitterness, some leathery brett, a little bit of Campari-like chinotto zest, light floral tones of wild flowers, a hint of ripe cranberry and a touch of tough stony minerality. The wine is impressively structured with its high acidity and firm, moderately grippy medium tannins that slowly pile up on the gums. The finish is wild and grippy with long, pure flavors of tart cranberries, some perfumed floral tones, a little bit of stony minerality, light meaty umami notes and a hint of sour cherry bitterness.
  
  A beautiful, outstanding and dead-serious Cru Beaujolais that never seems to fail. Very tightly-knit with its impressive tannic structure and high acidity, yet the wine is not particularly forbidding due to its intense, ripe and well-delineated fruit. Based on a handful vintages, this wine seems to be an extraordinary Gamay in almost every vintage and is consistently one of the best Morgon wines - or Beaujolais wines as a whole, for that matter - I know of. Simply outrageous QPR at 20,90€.

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  12/23/2018 - Markus IWC wrote: 92 Points

  Folii #1: sprudlande fräsch Beaujolais. Härligt inbjudande näsa med viol (dominant), sten, mineraler, mint, vildhallon och en diskret vanilj touch i bakgrunden. Floral känsla med josig och lite gräddig primärfrukt.
  
  Sammetslen munkänsla men ändå precis lagom grepp och syra för att ge lite motstånd. Sällsynt drickvänlig med lätt stjälkiga drag, en favorit från första anslaget.
  
  Ett riktigt lyckopiller. Stark 4:a (92p), lovar mer för framtiden!
  
  
  

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