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Les dix crus du Beaujolais (Beaujolais Aujourd'hui)

Côtes de Brouilly - Le Lieutenant au coeur dur. Autour de son mont, cet ancien volcan fait glisser ses pentes parfois importantes sur quatre communes. Sous son costume pourpre sombre, se cachant des arômes d'épices et floraux d'iris. Sa race est celle d'une minéralité élégante de grande persistance... (en savoir plus pdf)

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Comme dans un rève (de Laurent Gotti)

Si on avait eu en main les leviers de la météo, je crois que l'on aurait pas fait mieux, sousligne Guy Marion, oenologue de la maison Georges Duboeuf. "Une météo plus qu'idéale, confirme Gilles Gelin au Domaine de Nugues (Lancié). Que le Beaujolais ait fait un bon millésime 2009, comme la plupart des vignobles ... (en savoir plus pdf)

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Beaujolais 2009 (by Christelle Guibert)

Rolling hills, winding country lanes, medieval villages and the snowcapped Alps on the horizon... Why is the picturesque region of Beaujolais so overlooked? And it's wine so underrated? Beaujolais Nouveau may have a bit to do with it... (read more pdf)

Article from www.decanter.com


Reinventing Beaujolais (by Giles Fallowfield)

It's a happy coincidence. Just as a spurt of outside investment triggers wider interest in Beaujolais, along comes the "vintage of the century" to remind drinkers wwho have stopped bying these wines just what they have been missing. Add to this a just begun re-evaluation of the terroir of the appellation... (en savoir plus pdf)

Article from www.decanter.com



Taking On the Beaujolais Clichés

I hope you have a chance to read my new column on 2007 cru Beaujolais, because I think I make an important point: Too much of what we think about wine is simply parroted from the textbooks and endlessly repeated.

Case in point: cru Beaujolais. For decades if not centuries, we have thought of Beaujolais as a simple, light-hearted, fun, good-doggy kind of wine. All you have to do is tap the Beaujolais button on the keyboard and the clichés spew forth.

But are they still true? Sometimes. Much of the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages still conform to the simple, fun wine description. Some cru Beaujolais does, too. But the clichés are emphatically no longer true for the artisanal cru Beaujolais that is now setting the pace for the entire appellation, and for the producers I wrote about in my column, and in previous stories.

 

The best of these wines retain the joyousness that is at the heart of the gamay grape, but it is time to recognize that they are much more than that. They are complex, multi-layered, graceful, delicious wines that are nonetheless true to the spirit of Beaujolais. They are, in two words, serious wines, even though everybody knows Beaujolais is not a serious wine.

The evolution of Beaujolais is a fascinating story, partly because it is rooted in desperation. The region pretty much crashed in the last 20 years, and most people in Beaujolais short of Georges Duboeuf blame the success of Beaujolais nouveau, which resulted in a great deal of overproduction and bad grape-growing and winemaking habits. These came back to bite Beaujolais when the market for nouveau faltered.

Today, serious producers of this so-called un-serious wine are leading the way to the rebirth and reevaluation of the region. Sooner or later, somebody will come along to rewrite the textbooks.

The situation with Beaujolais requires that we question other bits of conventional wisdom. Last year I wrote a column taking issue with the endlessly repeated notion that red Burgundy is a minefield. What other wine truths need to be re-examined?