
2010
Region
France › Beaujolais › Fleurie › Fleurie AOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Gamay
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
Finally - after fifteen years, it actually resembles Gamay. Last time it was all dark fruit, dense tannins, syrupy body - more Rhône than Beaujolais. Now the blood and dried black berries come with high acidity that reads as varietal. But the contradictions persist: with this much body and alcohol, the concentration feels oddly weak. The tannin, which seemed resolved before, is actually still green. The super-extraction remains a puzzle. And yet - there's cherry at the core, there's juiciness, and it's not bad at all. A stubbornly strange wine that keeps making you reconsider what you thought you understood about it.
A good wine that improved significantly after being open for over six hours. It offers a warm bouquet of dark cherries, blackberries, ripe raspberries, night-blooming flowers, pencil lead, and a delicate hint of pickled mushrooms. On the palate, it's full-bodied and concentrated, with dense tannins contributing to a masculine and deeply layered profile. Initially, it feels quite velvety and syrupy, but it unfolds into a substantial, weighty finish. An intriguing and somewhat contradictory wine.