For years Beaujolais has had a bad reputation over recent years, what with Georges Duboeuf, the so-called 'King of Beaujolais' dragging down the already quite down-trodden reputation of the wines of the Beaujolais by selling inferior quality wine and trying to fool his loyal clients into buying shoddy versions of his once great cuvées and with the annual release of the not-all-too-great-beaujolais-nouveau. This particular wine comes from the Beaujolais Cru 'Morgon', perhaps the greatest and most certainly the longest-lived of all of the ten crus beaujolais and from the Côte de Py area of Morgon, perhaps the greatest area of this appellation. A surprisingly rich, dense wine, which one wouldn't normally associate with the wines of this region, nor of the Gamay grape variety, the grape, which makes up 100% of this wine.
On the nose we find a very flowery, perfumed wine - fragrant notes of irises and violets and once tasted, dark cherries and a slight pepperiness spring onto the palate. We tasted this wine ever so slightly chilled in order to firm up the tannins and we were glad to find a wine with a low ABV. Well 13% is low nowadays with Australian and Chilean blockbuster reds packing a huge 15% ABV in some instances.
This wine could easily substitute for a light Burgundy, one from the Côte Chalonnaise rather than those of the Côte d'Or or the big, chewy wines of the Côte des Nuits, a light Mercurey, perhaps. A nice wine, easy to drink, easy to open a second bottle....and a third....
Keith
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