2020 Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois Trousseau des Corvées

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  12/21/2023 - MadsW wrote: 89 Points

  Pretty simple Trousseau. The nose gives strawberry, white pepper, and the tiniest amount of brett. It’s as the other review here suggesting carbonic maceration along the lines of a Beaujolais Gamay. The palate offers rhubarb, red berries and a tiny hint of anis. The class pours with a very gentle amount of residual gas which blows away an hour in. It’s a very joyful bottle from a producer who I really like. Not much potential for aging however. It’s a sophisticated vin de soif.

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  11/1/2023 - brooklynguy wrote:

  The nose is pretty, especially in the first hour after opening, with cinnamon, dried rose, and cranberry - aromas that are common reds from this place. The palate is balanced and powerful, and with real persistence. But it is also not complicated, and after 90 minutes open felt rather blocky to me. But it was the nose that devolved in the most pronounced way, becoming all about the cinnamon stick thing that I get in many non-descript, although well made, natural wines. 90 minutes in and served blind this could have been partially carbonic gamay from the Loire, carbonic Beaujolais Villages, or several other wines made in the modern hipster natural wine style. It's not bad wine (although it tailed off in a big way after 90 mins open), but it's not a good example of Jura trousseau, and because it's more about wine-making than it is about place, it's hard to get excited. That said, I'm sure that 99% of today's modern-American restaurants would love to offer this on the list. The kids like it. I'm out of touch.

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