Domaine des Marrans Fleurie Clos du Pavillon 2015, Beaujolais, France 🇫🇷

🍇 Gamay 100%

🧐 Alcohol 13.5%

🍁 My Score 92 Points

🧩 Granite soil, hand-harvested fruits from 60-80 year old vines, indigenous yeast.  Produced by talented winemaker Mathieu Mélinan, who is a star with the minimum intervention movement.

🔹 Exquisite nose with aromas of strawberries, plums, underbrush, spices, minerals and light floral notes. On the mouthfeel, medium bodied, flavourful, great energy with fine grainy tannins and refreshing acidity keeping things fresh. The finish is medium length, elegant with seductive fruit flavours, minerals and spices.

🔸 Are you looking for a red on a hot summer day? Gamay served slightly chilled to the rescue. Like this, beautiful Beaujolais with it’s wonderful combination of freshness and weight with equal part fruity and earthy flavours. A Beaujolais for Pinot lovers, that is drinking beautifully right now and should keep improving for many years to come. Strongly recommended my wine friends. Cheers 🍷

Domaine Steeve Charvet Chiroubles 2018, Beaujolais, France 🇫🇷

Domaine Steeve Charvet Chiroubles 2018, Beaujolais, France 🇫🇷

🍇 Gamay 100%

🧐 Alcohol 13%

🍁 My Score 89 Points

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Very expressive and interesting nose with aromas of dark plums, tart cherries, violets, spices, earthy and animal undertones. On the mouthfeel, medium bodied, dry with firm, grippy tannins and crisp acidity. The finish is medium length with flavours of dark fruit, spices and woodsy, earthy flavours lingering.

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This is my first experience with Beaujolais from Chiroubles. Definitely difficult to find here compared to those from Brouilly, Fleurie and Morgon. Chiroubles is the highest and the coolest region of the cru Beaujolais, usually the last to harvest. It definitely felt like a very young wine, where the flavours have not quite blended together yet, where the tannins needs to soften up and lose some of their grip. If you have one of these, I suggest you decant for a few hours, or even better, give it a couple more years in bottle. Much smoother on the second evening 😉 Great potential to score 90-91 points in a few years. Cheers my wine friends 🍷

Jean Loron Domaine des Billards Saint-Amour 2016, Beaujolais, Burgundy, France 🇫🇷

🍇 Gamay 100%

🧐 Alcohol 13.5%

🍁 My Score 92%

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Beautiful, inviting nose with aromas of strawberries, blueberries, plums, sweet spices and light minerality. On the mouthfeel, medium-full bodied, framed with spicy fruit flavours, crisp acidity and grainy tannins. The finish is long, really tasty with those same grainy tannins making a comeback and slightly coating your mouth.

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Hard to find here, Beaujolais from Saint-Amour, the most Northerly of the ten Beaujolais cru. What a gorgeous wine, with great aromatics, beautiful texture and long flavourful finish. A wine that brought a smile to my face the entire evening. A charming, lively Beaujolais full of flavours best served slightly chilled. Strongly recommended, I have to purchase a few more bottles. Cheers my wine friends 🍷

Brouilly Pierreux Pierre-Marie Chermette 2010, Beaujolais, France

This is an interesting wine to be sure, but not meant for everyone. A beautiful deep ruby in color, this wine opens up with aromas dark fruit, smoke, violet, light licorice with strong, stoney, minerality notes . On the palate, medium bodied (even with a low alcohol of 12.5%), odd flavours and very concentrated, balance acidity and dusty tannins. This Beaujolais finish is long with flavours of crushed stone (you can almost taste the granite which these vines grows in) , slightly bitter fruit and those same dusty tannins lingering. Not what one might expect from a Beaujolais (light, easy drinking, fruity with light tannins) even for a Cru Beaujolais. This wine would be better enjoyed with food and a few years in bottle. Score 88 points.

 

Purchased April 28, 2012 at the SAQ (11305660) at $20.43