Fleurie Chapelle des Bois

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.