MARY TAYLOR MARINE DESCOMBE BEAUJOLAIS-VILLAGES
$20.99
A textbook blue stone Brouilly-style Beaujolais-Villages from one of the great women winemakers in France. Beautiful purity of Gamay Noir fruit – meets cement aging – showcasing the unique expression of Beaujolais that cannot be reproduced anywhere – but here!
- Size: .750L
Description
90 Points, James Suckling
“Remarkably ripe and harmonious for a wine from the challenging 2021 vintage this has excellent depth and nice warm tannins. With a little aeration the red fruit and rooty characters expand nicely. The long crisp finish is the only place you feel the acidity, but it is married to a crushed rock character. Drink or hold.”
91+ Points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar
“Marine Descombe’s 2018 Beaujolais-Villages is nicely svelte for the vintage, coming in at an even thirteen percent octane. The wine is made from parcels in the commune of Brouilly, with the vines averaging fifty-five years of age, but with some having been planted all the way back during World War I. Forty percent of the bunches are destemmed and the wine is fermented Burgundy style, followed by elevage in cement vats for six months. The 2018 offers up a beautifully pure and complex bouquet of sweet dark berries, cassis, a bit of smoked meats, a lovely base of granitic soil tones, cumin and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with a lovely core of black fruit, excellent soil signature and grip, a fair bit of ripe tannin and a long, structured and complex finish. This is quite serious Beaujolais Villages and could really do with another year or two in the cellar to soften up the backend tannin completely. I know that other than a couple of Beaujolais bottlings from people like Jean Paul Brun and the Chermette family, most folks are not inclined to age their Beaujolais-Villages, but Marine Descombe’s version is outstanding and very much worthy of tucking away in the cellar for a few years and let it really start to hit on all cylinders! It is very impressively complex and a fine, fine bottle in the making. 2022-2040+. 91+.”
88 Points, Wine Enthusiast
“You can confidently open and enjoy this Beaujolais Villages any day of the week without hesitation. The blackberry-first nose of this wine is followed by additional aromas of black currant, cigar box, leather, black olive and dried mushroom. On the palate, the wine is tight and could benefit from decanting or additional years of aging.”
