So fun to try this famously age-worthy cru Beaujolais. Deep purple color, very similar to current releases of this bottle with just a little bit of pale bricking around the rim. On the nose, bursting with dark red fruits: blackberry, dark red cherry, artificial “scratch-n-sniff” purple grape. Little bit of stoney undertones indicating the age.
On the palette, powdery tannins and really soft expression of the red fruits, but still so primary and ripe. It’s shed all the bitterness that you can get with young Moulin a Vent and retains all the power.
Loved this, totally belies its age and drinks like a Clos de Mouches.
by patarms
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I love this wine and have had it with some age, but not this much. Thanks for the notes. The Clos des Mouches comparison is high praise.
I still have some 2009 Beaujolais in my cellar so always pleased to hear when they are drinking well. I have some Roilette Tardive, for which recent(ish) notes are promising. I also have some JP Brun Morgon and Fleurie, for which notes are more mixed. Honestly, I should be putting all of these in the queue for consumption at this point. Not sure I trust my cellar is cold enough to really push the aging bounds on these.
Love the producer. I have some 2020s tucked away
Always nice to see some aged Beaujolais! I found it funny when I was looking at drinking windows for my cellar nearly all the Beaujolais had a cellar tracker suggestion of 9 years, yet most of the amazing Cru stuff I’ve tasted has been past that.