Domaine des Chers Julienas Vieilles Vignes 2018
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Bursting with aromas of ripe cherries, pomegranate and peonies, the 2018 Juliénas Vieilles Vignes is medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, with an ample core of fruit that entirely conceals its fine and powdery tannins, ripe acids and flavorful finish. Supple and expressive, this is an irresistible Juliénas from Arnaud Briday.
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This fresh, gently textured wine has ripe black fruits along with a core of tannins. Its crisp edge and red-berry flavors are delicious, pushing the wine to maturity. Drink from mid 2020.
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A wonderful smokiness on the nose here alongside soft fruit flavours - this is a little more creamy, chalky and delicate than some of the others with a lovely texture and hold across the palate. Light and easy drinking, if not especially fresh and juicy, more structured, powerful and settled. A gourmet pick so pair with grilled meats, a charcuterie platter or a decadent bitter chocolate fondant. From a single-vineyard plot of 70-year-old vines. Drinking Window 2020 - 2027
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Delightfully playful, but also capable of impressive gravitas, Gamay is responsible for juicy, berry-packed wines. From Beaujolais, Gamay generally has three classes: Beaujolais Nouveau, a decidedly young, fruit-driven wine, Beaujolais Villages and Cru Beaujolais. The Villages and Crus are highly ranked grape growing communes whose wines are capable of improving with age whereas Nouveau, released two months after harvest, is intended for immediate consumption. Somm Secret—The ten different Crus have their own distinct personalities—Fleurie is delicate and floral, Côte de Brouilly is concentrated and elegant and Morgon is structured and age-worthy.
The bucolic region often identified as the southern part of Burgundy, Beaujolais actually doesn’t have a whole lot in common with the rest of the region in terms of climate, soil types and grape varieties. Beaujolais achieves its own identity with variations on style of one grape, Gamay.
Gamay was actually grown throughout all of Burgundy until 1395 when the Duke of Burgundy banished it south, making room for Pinot Noir to inhabit all of the “superior” hillsides of Burgundy proper. This was good news for Gamay as it produces a much better wine in the granitic soils of Beaujolais, compared with the limestone escarpments of the Côte d’Or.
Four styles of Beaujolais wines exist. The simplest, and one that has regrettably given the region a subpar reputation, is Beaujolais Nouveau. This is the Beaujolais wine that is made using carbonic maceration (a quick fermentation that results in sweet aromas) and is released on the third Thursday of November in the same year as harvest. It's meant to drink young and is flirty, fruity and fun. The rest of Beaujolais is where the serious wines are found. Aside from the wines simply labelled, Beaujolais, there are the Beaujolais-Villages wines, which must come from the hilly northern part of the region, and offer reasonable values with some gems among them. The superior sections are the cru vineyards coming from ten distinct communes: St-Amour, Juliénas, Chénas, Moulin-à-Vent, Fleurie, Chiroubles, Morgon, Regnié, Brouilly, and Côte de Brouilly. Any cru Beajolais will have its commune name prominent on the label.