Beaujolais Cru greatness: Clos de la Roilette 2017, Fleurie
The benchmark of Beaujolais Cru – for me at least. Not a wine trying to be top Burgundy or whatever it isn’t, but it’s a complete wine. A beauty.
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Supermarket Beaujolais Cru done well – Auchan’s Pierre Chanau Morgon 2016
Proper Morgon, dark and structured for a Beaujolais. Ripe, but cool climate is evident. Black cherries and a bit of that playful hibiscus and bubble gum action, just to complete typicity. Alcohol is lowish yet it’s almost full-bodied, structured and tannic – a nice example of the classic French red wine style, it’s so Old […]
Richard Rottiers Moulin-á-Vent Foudres 2016, Beaujolais, France
If you read that Moulin-a-Vent makes the darkest and most structured wines of all the Beaujolais Crus, here’s a wine to prove the point. This is completely different from Gamay made elsewhere.
Domaine Chemin Pagnon Beaujolais Nouveau 2018
A Beaujolais – what else to begin with on this site. It’s not a Cru, nothing for the geeks now, “just” a Nouveau. Which might offer just as much enjoyment as many of the noble cousins, and that’s the case here. Intensity that wins. Black cherries, sour cherries lifted by that typical bubble gum aroma […]
Hungarian nouveau: Vylyan Bogyólé 2023
Vylyan Bogyolé is ususally the first wine I taste from the current year, it pops up earlier than even Beaujolais Nouveau. For the first time (AFAIK) it’s a pure zweigelt.
Pierre-Marie Chermette Griottes 2022
Can a Beaujolais Nouveau be still good in the following summer? Surely it can – at least the better ones from serious producers.
Four cabernet franc from Hungary
From the Bordeaux varieties it’s cabernet franc which is the most accepted and famous in Hungary. And not just because Villány declared it as its main variety, although no other region focuses on it to this extent. I tried four recently, and I was really happy with only one of them, the Kiss Gábor; […]
Georges Duboeuf Julienas 2020
Definitely not your easy-drinking Beaujolais.
Supermarket wines: Pierre Chanau Brouilly 2020
What an interesting Beaujolais Cru! Never tasted one like this…
Trinch! A Loire cabernet franc as bistro red
A low intervention cabernet franc from one of the pioneers of the style in the Loire Valley, Catherine and Pierre Breton. You could guess from the label that it’s meant to be an easy drinking red, and it thoroughly fulfils that promise.