2017 Brouilly Vieilles Vignes
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Brilliant violet. Intense red/dark berry scents are complemented by a sexy floral nuance and a hint of licorice. Picks up a spicy quality with air, which adds bite to the ripe raspberry and bitter cherry flavors. Sweeter on the penetrating finish, which features round, even tannins and persistent red fruit preserve and violet notes.
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
Josh Raynolds
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The 2017 Brouilly Vieilles Vignes offers up notes of sweet cherries, raspberries and ripe plums. On the palate, it’s medium to full-bodied, ample and juicy, with good concentration and youthfully chewy tannins that avoid the rusticity of which this appellation is capable.
60- to 80-year-old vines. Granite soils. Carbonic maceration. Aged on lees for six months in old oak barrels. Has some of the banana character supposedly revealing of carbonic maceration, as well as pleasing primary red fruit and a soft brush of tannins on the finish. Really satisfying – typically beaujolais, but really complex and lengthy too. (RH)