Bringing together the threads of two recent articles, Beaujolais 2009 – buy, buy! and Fine selections from the Wine Society, here's a range of Beaujolais 2009s (and one 2007) available from the Wine Society in the UK.
All but the Society's own label wines can also be found outside the UK. Before tasting this selection, I had heard and read so many good things about this vintage in this region and was delighted to find it's pretty much all true.
These wines are exceptionally well priced in relation to their quality and pleasure quotient.
RED
Winemaker Jean-Marc Darbon, blended in conjunction with the Wine...
Dark cherry colour but not dense. Delicate red fruit. Marked...
Winemaker Jean-Marc Darbon, blended in conjunction with the Wine...
Cherry red though the colour is denser and a little more smudgy...
Winemaker Jean-Marc Darbon, blended in conjunction with the Wine...
Slightly darker fruit and less openly fragrant than the Society’...
Relatively closed and dark but there’s some ripe damson fruit on...
Fragrant, lightly spiced dark fruit. Touch of white pepper...
Restrained and yet fresh on the nose, some pure bright cherry...
Deep bright cherry crimson. Fragrant and sweet-fruited on the...
Perfumed dark fruit. Sweet and juicy on the palate but with well...
Fresh and lightly peppery over elegant pure fruit and just a...
White pepper and restrained yet ripe dark fruit with a touch of...
Leaner than most of the wines tasted alongside so that the...
Sweet fruit and a touch of toasty oak on the nose but all in...
Quite a contrast to the 2009s tasted alongside. Fragrant and...
WHITE
Dusty ripe pears on the nose, rounded and full on the palate but...
