2020
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Beaujolais
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| Dry red - medium bodied. |
100% Gamay
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12.5%
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Red meats, offal, hard/tangy cheeses
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Still good, but best on day 1
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Now or to 2028
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| Medium-deep semi-translucent cherry/purple hue, with a narrow rim. This is definitely at the darker and more serious end of the Beaujolais spectrum. On the nose, there's a hint of black cherry, perhaps raspberry too, but more in the way of ripe, gently soused bramble, damson and cassis and a whiff of fine eau de vie. Little notes of exotic spice and woodsmoke also peep through. There's plenty of grippy but ripe tannin in the mouth, but more than enough fruit to see it soften, over the next 5 years or more, with ample cherry kernel acidity and a suggestion of saline minerality on the long, tangy finish. This is a wine built to age and evolve, which it certainly will do, over the next 5 to 8 years or more. |
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